Fisk Univ. president escorted off flight

Seattle PI ^ | July 23, 2004

[traumer]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Fisk University's new president, Clinton administration Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, was escorted off a flight and questioned by the FBI after she became abusive and tried to get into the cockpit while the plane was delayed on the tarmac, authorities said.

O'Leary said she simply wanted to get off the plane.

"I regret the unfortunate misunderstanding that occurred," she said in a statement. "The situation was resolved. At no time was I rude or disrespectful to anyone."

The United Airlines crew told police that O'Leary was "getting loud and abusive" after the flight was diverted to Richmond, Va., because of storms Thursday night, said Cpl. Frank Donkle of the Richmond International Airport Police.

A flight attendant restrained O'Leary when she tried to get into the cockpit, Donkle said, and she was escorted off the Nashville-to-Washington flight and questioned by the FBI.

Airport spokesman Troy Bell said he was not aware of any charges filed.

O'Leary, 67, became president of Fisk, in Nashville, earlier this month.

[Salvation]

another dimwit

[bwteim]

I think the Mr. Ewing quoted last year will be disillusioned in that case:

"The historically black university of 860 students ...has had 13 presidents, three in the past seven years. ''Ideally, whoever is the next president will retire from Fisk rather than resign,'' David Ewing said.

http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/03/12/44714453.shtml

[traumer]

Maybe just a bad day....

[mrsmith]

"... questioned by the FBI after she inadvertantly became abusive and inadvertantly tried to get into the cockpit..."

Autocorrected by DNCSPIN.

[Calpernia]

URL?

[clintonh8r]

Probably just an honest mistake....

[Rakkasan1]

I can see it :
"do you know who I AM!!!??"

FAM: yeah, the broad about to get byotch slapped

[Rakkasan1]

sycophant=psychopath

[LibWhacker]

Can't believe the stupid cow thought she could just barge into the cockpit, lol! Even before 9/11, that'd raise eyebrows. Sheesh.

[sweetliberty]

"I regret the unfortunate misunderstanding that occurred,"

Unfortunate misunderstanding? That sounds like it's from the same lexicon as "sloppy mistake."

[gg188]

Can't believe the stupid cow thought she could just barge into the cockpit, lol! Even before 9/11, that'd raise eyebrows.

As usual, libs think a different set of rules applies to them. (And the fact that Hazel wasn't jailed and charged---she was "escorted" and "questioned"--shows that different rules DO apply to them.)

[Bernard]

She was looking for ASandy Berger's pocket full of missing documents.

"is that a state secret in your pocket, Mr. Berger, or are you just glad to see me?"

[Samwise]

Geeeeez. Have they all the Clintonistas gone off their meds recently?

[itsahoot]

the unfortunate misunderstanding that occurred,

DNC Code word for illegal....

[LibWhacker]

Very sad, but very true. Ticks me off. Sky marshals ought to have shoot to kill orders for anyone trying to force his way into a cockpit. Just retrofit the bulkhead and cockpit doors to absorb the shots.

[blam]

"Two sets of laws, one for people and one for royalty. It is wrong. "

I agree and I don't like it one bit.

[Political Junkie Too]

This is old, old news. I'll have to search for it.

-PJ

[Hildy]

Well, she got what she wanted, which is apparntly to get off the plane that was getting diverted. Sounds pretty crafty to me.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here's one for now: Chinese Espionage and National Security Rep. Curt Weldon (R -PA) June 7, 1999

Mr. Speaker, it was in 1993 and 1994, when Hazel O'Leary was appointed to be the Secretary of Energy by President Bill Clinton, that she overturned the color-coded ID system used in our Department of Energy labs because she thought it was discriminatory. It was based upon the color of the chain and the ID that you wore around your neck, only allowing one access to certain parts of our laboratories. It was the way that we kept people from illegally accessing information that they did not have the proper clearance for. So what happened, Mr. Speaker, was that the Clinton administration did away with that identification process which made it almost impossible for the lab directors and others to know whether or not a person was in a correct area of a lab, gathering information and data that they should not have had.

Now, Mr. Speaker, if that was a good decision, which maybe the President would say was the case, why then did this administration 2 weeks ago move to reinstate the policy that Hazel O'Leary did away with? If the color-coded ID system was not necessary, why did they all of a sudden 2 weeks ago tell the labs, "You're now going to put back into place a color-coded ID system” at a tremendous cost to taxpayers. That was under this administration, Mr. Speaker.

It was this administration and Hazel O'Leary who decided to put a hold on FBI background checks in at least two of our labs; checks which had been the norm under previous administrations, before people could gain access to our labs, had to be done so that we could determine whether or not those people were spies or whether or not they were appropriately entitled to have access to classified information. This allowed scores of people to get access to our labs, not just Chinese or Asian nationals but a whole host of people who were not being required to have FBI background checks.

-PJ

[Calpernia]

Thank you!