Posted on 09/02/2006 12:52:22 PM PDT by Marius3188
The U.S. Transportation Department's inspector general has urged the FAA to consider disciplining two executives who failed to correct false information provided to the commission that investigated the September 11 attacks, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Citing the report by the acting inspector general, Todd Zinser, whose office acts as the department's internal watchdog, the Times said the Federal Aviation Administration executives, as well as a third, now-retired official, learned after the fact that false information was given to the commission in May 2003 about the FAA's contacts with the Air Force on the morning of the attacks.
That information suggested that the FAA had made contact with its Air Force liaison immediately after the first of the four hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center in New York, the Times said.
But the commission's investigators found that the liaison did not join a conference call with the FAA until after the third plane crashed nearly an hour later.
The time gap is considered significant because it helps undermine an initial claim by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which is responsible for domestic air defense, that it moved quickly and had a chance to shoot down the last of the hijacked planes still in the air, United Airlines Flight 93, the Times said.
Now the inspector general's report, compiled to address complaints from the independent September 11 commission, has found that the three FAA executives failed to act on an "obligation" to correct the false information given to the commission.
The FAA declined to identify the executives and their names and titles were not disclosed in the inspector general's report, the Times said. The agency also did not say whether it was considering disciplinary action. There was no evidence that the executives provided false information knowingly, the inspector general's office found.
The FAA said the "inspector general's investigation has clarified the record and found no evidence that FAA officials knowingly made false statements," the Times said.
The Pentagon's inspector general said in a similar finding last month concerning military officers who provided inaccurate testimony to the commission that their inaccuracies could be mainly attributed to poor record-keeping.
If we're looking for likely targets for discipline, perhaps it's time we disciplined the entire Sinkton administration for spending eight years collectively playing with itself while al-Qaeda planned and struck and planned and struck again. It's more than a little germane to the discussion that 9/11 was the SECOND attack on the WTC; there was both precedent and warning, and plenty of it. If Bubba hadn't been so busy playing with his cigar and soiling the Oval Office, he might have saved the lives of nearly three thousand innocents.
BTTT
in spite of the metal detector alarms being set off---they were wanded
and sent on board..
why wasn't there an investigation as to who was working the gates at logan and correct me if i'm wrong but during the period all planes were grounded---weren't more weapons found on some aircraft,taped under the seats ? again at logan ??
and why wasn't the emergency broadcast system working that morning here in nyc ?
just some basic questions....
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