[tubebender]

Although this article says that the intelligence services knew beforehand that al Qaeda was thinking about crashing airliners into populated targets, it does not say whether anyone warned the airlines, and in particular the pilots, about that possibility.

I recall some security rules proposed for the airline industry near the end of the Clitton era and I believe Al Bore nixed it for some reason. Do you recall this ?

[kayak]

I think that was related to TWA-800 ........ and you're correct ..... Gore nixed it right about the time there was a sizable contribution to the DNC from the airline lobby, if I recall correctly.

[mathluv]

I heard that the airlines did not like the suggestions because of cost involved. Naturally, clintoon would not force it - especially after a nice contribution to his library.

[okie01]

"I recall some security rules proposed for the airline industry near the end of the Clitton era and I believe Al Bore nixed it for some reason. Do you recall this ?"

You probably refer to the more stringent security rules proposed in the wake of TW 800.

Those rules were not unlike those that are now in force, plus much more stringent baggage screening. This, even though the alleged cause of the TW 800 cash was "a spark in the wiring of the fuel pump in the center fuel tank", remember.

These rules were recognized as a huge inconvenience to the passengers. And a huge expense to the airlines, who would have to fund them (as the security process would not have been federalized, as it is now).

However, after the airlines fed something over $600,000 into the Democrat campaign committee, the proposal were dropped...

Government by extortion, Clinton-Gore style.