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To: T Roosevelt
It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security

You mean this report?

Washington Times. EDITORIAL. May 18, 2002 "Nearly a decade ago, in 1995, an al Qaeda plot to use commercial airliners to blow up the CIA headquarters at Langley, among other targets, was uncovered in the Philippines. It was named "Operation Bojinka," or "the big bang." As a consequence, Vice President Al Gore was appointed to head an airport-security task force. Those recommendations were eventually rejected by the White House as "racial profiling." When the investigations begin, no question should go unasked and unanswered. The Democrats might wish they had never got what they asked for."

20 posted on 05/30/2002 1:11:54 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
Yes, that's one of the reports I mentioned. You might read the report rather than depend on a Wash Times editorial.

Profiling was one element of that report - I cannot confirm whether or not the WH rejected those recommendations, or the justification for a rejection (probably heavy ACLU lobbying). Regardless, the report contained many points that (eventually) the FAA watered down under heavy lobbying from the airline industry (Delay, Dilute and Discard: How the Airline Industry and the FAA Have Stymied Aviation Security Recommendations).

But don't let a half-correct editorial (from a right-wing newspaper - can you believe they exist?) cloud the issue - that Bush, Ashcroft, and Mueller, more than Clinton, Reno, and Freeh bear responsibility of September 11.

36 posted on 05/30/2002 2:08:09 PM PDT by T Roosevelt
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