Posted on 04/03/2004 10:56:30 AM PST by Trueblackman
Give the demands of liberals and democrats for Dr. Rice to appear publicly before the commission looking into 9-11, why is it that we as Conservatives and Republicans have not demanded that both Senators John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy appear publicly before the 9-11 commission as well, given the fact that both planes that struck the World Trade Center Towers came out of Boston's Logan Airport?
I remember Logan being ranked almost dead last in security and demands from the FAA that Logan improve security, now the questions that need to be asked are, 1) Was security at the airport ever improved as demanded by the FAA? 2)If not what role or infulence did the union have on local, state and federal officials? and 3)Where either of the senators aware of the FAA demand for improved security and did they seek to delay or forgo the FAA Demands at the behest of unions?
I think these are fair questions to be asked of both men and in fact I think Senators Warner and Allen should be brought up as well given that Dulles is in their state.
Fair is indeed fair, but Bush Officials haven't been given a fair shake by this commission.
A very impressive little piece.
Fine by me.
But they're still gonna make me nauseous, no matter what they say.
RINOs too!
Don't forget that RINO Big Jawn Wannah would not be the Senator fron Virginia if Richard Obenshain hadn't been killed in a plane crash in 1978.
Remember this? The Gore Commission
..."delays from bag matching would "impact the whole integrity of the system," the association and its member airlines launched a full-bore lobbying campaign. They met with the commission staff. They made the rounds on Capitol Hill. They leaned on members of Congress, who in turn pressured the commission to back off. And although Kamarck insists that "the vice president never met with the industry," officials at the Air Transport Association recall otherwise, noting that their president, Carol Hallett, had plenty of access to the White House. "She would routinely see Gore all the time," Doubrava says.
Eight days after Kamarck's press briefing, Gore sent a letter to Hallett backing off on his call for an immediate move toward full bag match. "I want to make it very clear that it is not the intent of this administration or of the commission to create a hardship for the air transportation industry or to cause inconvenience to the traveling public," he wrote. Instead of sticking with the original plan to match all bags to passengers, Gore began calling for an industry-backed alternative, in which a computerized profiling system would monitor suspicious travelers and remove their bags if they failed to board planes. The new plan was blasted by security experts, who concluded it would be simple for terrorists to evade the profiling system."
..."The rule-making process is very easily manipulated by someone with a lot of money and expertise, and the airlines have that in spades," says Rep. Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat. "Anything that would cost them money they could fight, and delay rule making for years and years."
....The FBI and CIA continued to warn the commission that serious holes remained in the security system, and Cummock urged her colleagues not to back off. When she pressed for more meaningful give-and-take on security issues, a commission staff member pulled her aside and told her that the Christmas decorations had been put up at the White House. "If you'd like," she recalls the aide telling her, "we could arrange a VIP tour."
(..Victoria Cummock, who had lost her husband over Lockerbie. The Miami widow, who had become an advocate for air crash victims, flew to New York to meet the families of TWA passengers. In a hangar at Kennedy Airport, she met with President Clinton, who invited her to serve on the brand-new White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. The commission would be chaired by Vice President Al Gore, lending it considerable credibility and power. It would include scientists, military experts, and high-ranking government officials. "My heart sang," Cummock says, recalling her conversation with the president. "I thought, 'Oh my God, thank God.'")
The nation's airlines wasted no time in expressing their thanks. The day after Gore's letter, TWA sent $40,000 to the Democratic National Committee, which was headed into the final weeks of the 1996 campaign. A month later, American Airlines came through with three contributions of $83,333 made over five days—a $250,000 burst of beneficence that it has never again matched. In the last days of the push to re-elect Clinton and Gore, Democratic Party committees also raked in $83,000 from Northwest Airlines, $117,465 from United Airlines, and $15,000 from US Airways. In all, the major airlines poured more than $500,000 into various Democratic soft-money accounts in the weeks following Gore's letter—two and a half times what they gave Republicans during the same period.
And remember one of our favorite Dem. Senators's wives provided most handsomely for her family in her lobbying for the airlines.
Cuts from:http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/01/airlines.html
Other than the Senate leadership one supposes.
Not to disagree (obviously disagreeing here...) BUT, when you said:
The Republicans control the House. How the hell did this commission get legs at this time in an election year.
The House leadership is about as impotent as any group of people I have ever seen.
Ever thought that what we have here is "terrorism" being debated and specifically 9-11 where Bush truly shines. By "yielding" to the left for a kangaroo court oops..."commission" the war and terrorism is in the public eye...a war Kerry voted for (before voting against the funding).
As crappy as the RATS get, it is better this fight than the fight on the economy (where the RATS talk down the economy...this is only a second tier sidebar now).
We're doing great here...
DD
On that fine point you are correct, but consider that he was warned about both the lax security and the imminent threat and probable consequence. And what did he do... nothing, zip, zero. He forwarded the material, to the very institution that was at fault, the FAA.
I happened to testify before the Presidential commission on aviation security and terrorism in 1990, following the PN 103 disaster. This one was pre Clinton. I testified then and gave supporting testimony that the FAA's testing protocols and processes were corrupt. Nothing changed.
Kerry had/has the attitude that terrorism is not that big of a deal, so did the airline industry until 9/11.
Yup!...both RepubRats & DemonRats...
'September 11th And The Bush Administration' - Compelling Evidence for Complicity
...So, you ask what's The Agenda?...
'THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And It's Geo-strategic Imperatives' - Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CFR's War Plans In a 1997 Book ("A Blueprint for World Dictatorship...,")
...and you say 'NWO - that's un-American'...
'Global “Peak Oil” Crash and related geo-political events...
Prove that one fact and maybe we'll listen to the rest of what you have to say.
And not from any BS tinfoil hat web site.
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