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February 10, 2005
Why did Bush block hijack reports?
The FAA received piles of reports in 2001 warning of Al Qaeda plane hijackings in the United States, but laughed them off. More bizarre, however, is the fact that the Bush administration blocked the release of those documents until just recently -- and even now, they're heavily redacted. The NY Times:
The Bush administration has blocked the public release of the full, classified version of the report for more than five months, officials said, much to the frustration of former commission members who say it provides a critical understanding of the failures of the civil aviation system. The administration provided both the classified report and a declassified, 120-page version to the National Archives two weeks ago and, even with heavy redactions in some areas, the declassified version provides the firmest evidence to date about the warnings that aviation officials received concerning the threat of an attack on airliners and the failure to take steps to deter it.
Full article here.
Posted By Bob Cesca | February 10, 2005 11:38 AM | DIGG ME!
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"National Security"? Or maybe he didn't want voters to see it before the election...
Posted by: zencomix at February 10, 2005 01:06 PM
"The report says that leaders of the F.A.A. received 52 intelligence reports from their security branch that mentioned Mr. bin Laden or Al Qaeda from April to Sept. 10, 2001. That represented half of all the intelligence summaries in that time."
FIFTY-TWO REPORTS.
HALF OF ALL THE INTELLIGENCE SUMMARIES IN THAT TIME.
Blocked for FIVE MONTHS. Five months...yeah, since September 2004. Two months before the election.
They are scum.
Posted by: Plummer at February 10, 2005 11:31 PM
