911 Panel Scolds Ex-Police, Fire Chiefs [insults Boy Scouts]

Does anyone remember a consulting firm that was hired to write a report on the 911 emergency response a year or so ago? There were a few threads on FR about it.

IIRC there was a RAT connection in there some place.

I've not been able to locate it so far, but it might be worth a relook.

This is the lowest blow yet from that despicable commission.

This charade is outrageous and I'm simply furious. I could never have imagined seeing such a national kangaroo court in this country. These politicians and these families make me sick. It's shameful.

Somehow, through it all, I've maintained my faith in the United States and her citizens. We are not alone.

Semper fidelis.

Found it, but haven't had time to go over it. From August 2002.

Sept. 11 Report Criticizes NY Fire Department

It was McKinsey Consulting. Here is a quote from the thread--

Enron, which was paying McKinsey as much as $10 million in annual fees, is just one of an unusual number of embarrassing client failures for the elite consulting firm. Besides Enron, there's Swiss-air, Kmart, and Global Crossing--all McKinsey clients.

Sally Regenhard

SallyRegenhard@aol.com
www.skyscrapersafety.org

At almost every press conference, in almost every interview, Regenhard will say that what killed her son, a probationary firefighter, was not our policy in the Mideast, a lapse in U.S. intelligence, a failure in airline security, the force of two jetliners, the depravity of Osama bin Laden, or the zealotry of nineteen homicidal maniacs. She will say the towers themselves murdered her son. The towers and the forces that built them.

"It has been proven scientifically that the World Trade Center did not collapse because two planes hit it," she continues, pointing her finger at the camera. "It collapsed because of insufficient spray-on fireproofing, which the Port Authority has known about for two decades."

Regenhard used to be a nice lady from the Bronx who worked in the nursing-home business. Today her advisory panel includes prominent professors, retired fire chiefs, and civil-liberties lawyer Norm Siegel -- "amazed at her ability to organize, amazed at her ability to handle the press."

She adds that she hasn't taken a vacation day all year and that she no longer socializes with her old friends -- just victims' families. "I know I sound obsessive," she says. "I was never like this." She starts to cry again. "I don't know why God did this to us. It has to be for a higher purpose. If we could just reform those building codes . . . "

These are the same people who are always clapping during testimony when it is against President Bush or anyone in his administration.

Sally Regenhard, left, and Monica Gabrielle, whose son and husband, respectively, died in the World Trade Center attacks, attend a public hearing on the attacks before a joint House-Senate Intelligence Committees hearing in September 2002.

Bush's 9/11 coverup?
Family members of victims of the terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.

Don't know how significant this is, but I'll throw it in the ring--

Report: Chelsea Clinton takes six-figure consulting job

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chelsea Clinton will start a six-figure consulting job after she receives a master's degree from Oxford University later this year, Newsweek magazine reports on its Web site.

The daughter of former President Clinton will work in the New York office of London-based McKinsey & Company, newsweek.com reported Friday.

If you google McKinsey AND Gorelick, you'll find several connections such as serving on boards of directors with partners of the firm. Again, I don't know how big a deal it is, but there you have it.

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