WHAT JOHN KERRY KNEW ABOUT LOGAN'S SECURITY

NY POST ^ | 3/23/04 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR

[Liz]

March 23, 2004 -- I am writing to respond to misleading statements made by Paul Sperry in his March 15 Opinion column, "The Warning Kerry Ignored." The column is wrong on the facts and in its assertions. In fact, Sen. John Kerry's office promptly forwarded Brian Sullivan's tape warning of security lapses at Boston's Logan Airport to the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General and contacted the General Accounting Office. Both of these federal offices have the authority and capacity to investigate security concerns.

[AnAmericanMother]

yet can't be bothered to give something like this more than a distainful stiff.

J F'in Kerry IS a disdainful stiff!

;-) sorry - couldn't resist.

[terilyn]

LOL! That'll teach me to preview.

'effin probably sniffs stiff!

[AnAmericanMother]

The Dems who are supporting Kerry must be blind. How can such a stuck-up, snobbish hanger-on (and the wannabees on the fringes of the "elite" are always the most stuck-up and snobbish) appeal to voters who supposedly are for the "common man". The "common man" can't get past Kerry's front door (although I suppose he might show up at the service entrance.) I guess the man's got a permanent inferiority complex from being the poor cousin.

[Liz]

Excellent info! KERRY KNEW!!! ...... It just keeps unraveling.

It's clear Dims reside in a parallel universe, and have been running a supersecret government. They seemingly loathe Americans, and everything America stands for. They would tear it all down to satisfy their egotistical ambitions. Kerry most certainly has a deity complex.

Democray dies behind closed doors. Voters better wake up and derail the Kerry freight train taking them to reeducation camp.

[armymarinemom]

Logan security July 2001

[Liz]

ping

[Ramius]

Actually, your question is a good one, and it's part of the fallacy that's grown up about airport security, and Logan in particular about 9/11.

Before 9/11 it was perfectly legal to carry knives (and box cutters) on airplanes. I carried a leatherman tool and a boxcutter in my regular carry on stuff for years.

Regarding Logan... the 9/11 hijackers didn't go through security at Logan. They flew in on a small commuter plane from somewhere else (Portland, Maine, I think?) to Logan. They would have already been inside the terminal and would not have had to go through security again.

They remain, for some reason, a couple of commonly repeated misconceptions about 9/11 and it's about time to get them out of the way.

All that said... I still maintain that the basic problem on 9/11 wasn't that there were too many weapons on those planes-- but that there were too few. A couple of hundred passengers on a jet that have some kind of weapons to use would make any future hijacking completely unthinkable.

[armymarinemom]

Regarding Logan... the 9/11 hijackers didn't go through security at Logan. They flew in on a small commuter plane from somewhere else (Portland, Maine, I think?) to Logan. They would have already been inside the terminal and would not have had to go through security again.

Logan has always done scans per gates or groups of gates. Whenever I fly in I into Logan I still have to go through security before I board another flight. It makes flights a bore and always has.

I have always wanted to know the blade length pre 9/11. It's been bugging me for two years. Six years ago they didn't let me carry the tape measure through but backed off on that just one year later when I flew through Logan.

[Libloather]

But Kerry's office responded to his warning promptly and responsibly and delivered the tape to those able to directly investigate it further. It appears that many others ignored Sullivan's warning altogether. David McKean Chief of Staff to Sen. John F. Kerry Washington, D.C.

Eleven weeks is prompt? Maybe for the Postal Service, but not in too many other places...

[lainde]

bttt

[nutmeg]

See posts 25 and 40 on this thread: Gore 1996 Airline Commission brought to the attention of the 9/11 family members (DC Chapter Report)

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

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[mickie]

I would like to go to the original Sperry article....to email it to several people I know. Is there a link?

Great article!

[SGCOS]

.. He offered to fly to Washington at his own expense to give Kerry a document-backed presentation about the "facade of security" at Logan and other major airports.

But a Kerry aide said not to bother. "You're not a constituent," Elson was told just a few weeks before the hijackings.

That pretty much sums it up. Kerry had more info available than anybody else (except for Osama) and he passed the buck because 'you're ont a constituent'.

[Cboldt]

Regarding Logan... the 9/11 hijackers didn't go through security at Logan. They flew in on a small commuter plane from somewhere else (Portland, Maine, I think?) to Logan.

Atta and one other entered secure space in PWM (Portland, Maine). Some of the hijackers entered at BOS (Logan). I fly out of PWM on a regular basis, and was shocked/angry/saddened viewing picture of Atta and his buddy passing over the same piece of carpet that'd I'd been over, scores of times.

Once through security, most of Logan passenger secure space is accessible to passengers without passing through Logan security. There is no need to go through security again, unless leaving a terminal building and entering another. Even in that case, there are (and were) a number of passenger corridors, between terminal buildings, in secure space.

[Liz]

NY Post runs an archive. Why not search the article on the web NYP site by clicking on source above (red Ny Post).

Or search FR. Original was probably posted here.

[Liz]

Betcha there's a lotta Mass. constituents he didn't listen to, either. They oughta sue his **s off.

[Liz]

See if this original link works.

http://nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/20808.htm

[sauropod]

Having had to deal with the GAO in a former life, i can tell you there should be an "entrance letter" that Kerry or his staff wrote concerning initiating any investigation. I think it could be produced if the reporters started asking for it.... 'Pod.