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Posted on 01/07/2003 12:42:32 PM PST by Liz
Sen Daschle's shocker that he will not run for president will be soft-soaped by the media.
Tommy should not worry. We will tell his story here.
The national security implications, political connections, and lobbying activities of Linda Hall Daschle, one of Washington’s most powerful lobbyists, who counts American Airlines, and Northwest Airlines among her high profile corporate clients, are detailed in the report "Fatal Neglect: The U.S. Government’s Continuing Failure to Protect American Citizens from Terrorists," which is from JW.
Questions have been raised as to whether national security in pre and post 9/11 America was compromised due to Linda Daschle’s political connections and her family's dependence on her huge income, reportedly in the millions, from the airline industry.
Her activities were also linked to Tommy's Senate position.
(1) As reported on CBS' 60 Minutes, Sen Daschle was charged with inappropriately intervening to reduce safety inspections of an air-charter company owned by a family friend after one of the planes crashed in 1994, killing four.
While at the FAA, under Clinton, Linda Daschle acted to exempt the friend’s airline from intensified safety inspections.
(2) According to a 2000 transportation budget, the FAA is forced to buy baggage scanners from one of Linda Daschle’s clients, L-3 International, despite the fact that the DOT’s Inspector General found the equipment to be substandard, some even leaking radiation.
(3) The inspector general told Congress that the FAA’s requirement to buy L-3’s machines is one reason airports will not be able to meet the new mandate to screen all luggage for bombs for many years, thus placing Americans seriously at further risk.
(4) The air transport industry donated more than $100,000 to Daschle’s campaign in the last election cycle. Linda Daschle’s client, Northwest Airlines, is the second largest contributor to the Senator's campaign in 1998.
(5) Linda Daschle was recently cited in an FAA report for failing to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy she announced in 1996 (under Clinton) while Deputy Director of the FAA against violent airline passengers, a pledge that some say could have prevented the September 11th terrorist hijackings.
(6) That means Mrs Daschle used, possibly with her husband's help, for the FAA to purchase faulty bomb detection equipment.
(7) The policy implications for post-9/11 America of Mrs Daschle, a former FAA official, taking employment with the industry she was charged with regulating while the terrorist plan was being hatched.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests have been filed with the FAA. Efforts to uncover Linda Daschle’s role in the selection of the faulty L-3 bomb detecting equipment prior to September 11th and efforts to determine Senator Daschle’s role should be made as well.
I dislike Daschle as much as any other freeper. However, we need factually substantiated information with which to defeat him, not just opinions.
Ad hominem attacks, while cathartic for the attacker, do nothing but make people feel sorry for the man. We need to politically crush him, not inflame sympathy for him.
I assumed you actually read the article which cited (1) a report, and (2) named several sources for the info - none of which are "opinions," but hard evidence:
From the above:
(1)As reported on CBS' 60 Minutes......
(2) According to a 2000 transportation budget.......
(3) The inspector general told Congress.....
(5) Linda Daschle was recently cited in an FAA report......
No one could possibly make that up.
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