Agent FAA buried lapses Checkpoint flaws alleged (9/11)

1 posted on 04/12/2004 6:01:47 PM PDT by GailA

To: GailA; backhoe; MeekOneGOP; doug from upland; Shermy

2 posted on 04/12/2004 6:02:36 PM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)

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ABCnews.com

Aviation security expert Brian Jenkins, who served on the Gore Commission on Aviation Security and is now a senior adviser to the president of the Rand Corporation, says there must be a complete overhaul of security. "Congress failed to require, the airlines failed to provide, the government failed to enforce and the public failed to demand adequate aviation security," Jenkins said. "And we've paid a terrible price for that."

WND

Screening system
ignored nationality
FAA security official slams politically correct profiling used on 9-11

3 posted on 04/12/2004 6:05:21 PM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)

IIRC, some citizen (or security guard?) wrote a letter to one of his Senators
a month or so, complaining about lax security at airports.

IIRC, that Senator was John Forbes Kerry.

4 posted on 04/12/2004 6:06:08 PM PDT by VOA

5 posted on 04/12/2004 6:06:11 PM PDT by kcvl

6 posted on 04/12/2004 6:06:23 PM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)

7 posted on 04/12/2004 6:18:23 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Tagging you.....)

STATEMENT OF
ADMIRAL CATHAL FLYNN,
ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY,
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON AVIATION,
ON AVIATION SECURITY,
MARCH 16, 2000.

The terrorist threat to U.S. civil aviation is higher abroad than it is within the United States.

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To further ensure that the CAPPS program is carried out in a non-discriminatory manner, we have proposed in our NPRM that airline and contractor security personnel receive civil rights and customer relations training. Further more, DOT, with the assistance of the Department of Justice, will be conducting a study in the next year to ensure that members of minority groups are not disproportionately affected in an unlawful manner in the security screening process.

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In the tests we conducted last spring, access control measures stopped 96% of our attempts to penetrate aircraft. Data from the current effort, which was unannounced to industry, shows some improvement. We expect the level of performance to be maintained. Where it is not, we will move quickly to require the airport or air carrier to post guards as necessary to secure the aircraft or doors, an expensive, redundant measure.

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Finally, I would like to mention the Federal Air Marshals (FAM’s) who protect the traveling public, passengers, and flight crews on U.S. air carrier flights worldwide. Since 1985, the FAM program has provided specially trained, armed teams of civil aviation security specialists for deployment worldwide on anti-hijacking missions. The thrust of the program is 99% deterrence, aimed at disrupting and confusing the planning and will of criminals and terrorists, and 1% response, to be able to assess, meet, and defeat any threat aboard an aircraft. All FAM’s are volunteer FAA employees. They undergo sophisticated and realistic initial and recurrent training. We believe that one of the reasons there has not been a hijacking of a U.S. air carrier is the deterrent value of the FAM program. Terrorists considering a hijacking must take the possible presence of FAM’s into account. We want the traveling public to know that we can be on any U.S. air carrier anywhere in the world at any time. The passenger sitting next to you on any flight could be a Federal Air Marshal.

8 posted on 04/12/2004 6:18:53 PM PDT by kcvl

And even until today, checked-in baggage and air freight are not checked for explosives; airline and airport personnel are allowed to move about airports and airplanes unabated. An airline ground crew employee who cleans up after a flight could leave a bomb on board.

9 posted on 04/12/2004 6:21:54 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)

God, I'm so sick of the finger pointing I could scream. The fact that this "terror commission" is just now convening and trying to figure out "what went wrong" and taking up all the headlines three and a half years AFTER 9/11 is ridiculous. The fact that the media is making this commission bigger than life and implying gross negligence by the Bush administration's short tenure is offensive and repulsive to me.

I seriously doubt this commission will come up with one single solitary NEW revelation in analyzing "how 9/11 happened" than what we all found out after the attack (read: our intelligence departments weren't communicating with each other). I'm so sick of dog and pony shows, I could vomit. Enough already!!!!!

10 posted on 04/12/2004 6:22:42 PM PDT by demkicker

Psssst, please don't alert our enemies that our defense on terror still looks like a piece of Swiss cheese.

11 posted on 04/12/2004 6:25:52 PM PDT by demkicker

LOL
Our enemies are working in Airport security so I am sure they are well aware...I just hope to embarrass the Bush Administration, the FAA, FBI et al into action!

12 posted on 04/12/2004 6:33:48 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)

Thanks GailA. I'm surpised they're fiannly admitting what everyone already knew. ;-)

13 posted on 04/12/2004 6:45:59 PM PDT by SAMWolf (A Bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once)

Recommend a commission to look into allegations of having too many commissions becoming partisian dog & pony shows.

14 posted on 04/12/2004 7:07:48 PM PDT by GoLightly

This is an old article I couln't find a date on it. But from the wording it was done soon after 9/11 I think.

15 posted on 04/12/2004 7:08:55 PM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)

LOL! SO now they're saying "No we didn't know". Doh!!

16 posted on 04/12/2004 7:12:27 PM PDT by SAMWolf (A Bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once)

This area is one of the biggest weaknesses in the airline industry. They hire the cheapest...thus many foreign workers. Not to mention the contract services. Where is the FBI background checks for them?

I had to have both a TBI (TN), an FBI background check before I could get my CCW and I'm a law abiding citizen.

17 posted on 04/12/2004 7:13:05 PM PDT by GailA (Kerry I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, but I'll declare a moratorium on the death penalty)

" IIRC, some citizen (or security guard?) wrote a letter to one of his Senators a month or so, complaining about lax security at airports. IIRC, that Senator was John Forbes Kerry."

Please expand and clarify.

18 posted on 04/12/2004 7:44:33 PM PDT by cookcounty (John Flipflop Kerry ---the only man to have been on BOTH sides of 3 wars!)

Any mention that the FAA protocols recommended by albore were eliminated in exchange for campaign donations?

19 posted on 04/12/2004 8:03:35 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)

I wouldn't worry .. they probably know more than we (the public) know.

20 posted on 04/12/2004 9:26:52 PM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)

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