The Bush-Clinton Administrations Had Enough Information Before 9/11 to
> Prevent Aircraft from Becoming Missiles
>
> Washington, DC:
>
> Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader today urged the 9/11
> Commission to highlight the failure of the Bush and Clinton
> Administrations to take action to re-enforce the doors of aircraft
> cockpits noting: "This single safety step could have thwarted the events
> of September 11."
>
> On April 8, when Condolezza Rice testified before the Commission
> Investigating September 11, she acknowledged that hardening the cockpits
> could have made a difference: "That would have made a difference. We
> weren't going to harden cockpits in the three months that we had a > threat spike."
>
> In fact, the US government had more than enough information prior to the
> information generated in the months prior to 9/11 to have taken action
> to re-enforce cockpit doors to thwart hijackers and terrorists. In
> addition to official intelligence scenarios about the potential for
> hijacked planes being used in terrorist attacks in the US against
> buildings, there have been 167 hijackings involving US airlines and 11
> hijackings involving foreign airlines on US soil since 1970.
>
> "It has been evident for decades that we needed to harden cockpit doors
> and strengthen their latches. Some foreign airlines have installed just
> that safeguard. The failure of the federal government for years to
> address this despite clear evidence of the need is a tribute to how our
> government has deregulated mechanisms for national security. The
> resistance by airlines and aircraft manufacturers sent the soporific FAA
> into inaction, despite long time requests for action by safety groups
> and aviation security experts. If our government, sometime over the last
> 30 years, had been responsive, this single act would have made it much
> more difficult for the terrorism of 9/11 to have succeeded in turning
> aircrafts into missiles." said Ralph Nader. "The 9/11 Commission, before
> its final report, needs to research this situation and come to a
> judgment about the reasons for failing to protect airline passengers and
> persons on the ground."
>
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ah! so is this one of those msgs where they dump a bunch of s**te txt to confuse spam filters?
no commment on the culpability of the bush admin intended
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