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WHAT JOHN KERRY KNEW ABOUT LOGAN'S SECURITY
NY POST ^ | 3/23/04 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Posted on 03/23/2004 2:19:11 AM PST by Liz

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911; airportsecurity; bos; kerry; kerry2004; loganairport; lte; paulsperry
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To: terilyn
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.

21 posted on 04/16/2004 7:07:25 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother
LOL! That'll teach me to preview.

'effin probably sniffs stiff!
22 posted on 04/16/2004 7:50:00 PM PDT by terilyn
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To: terilyn
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.
23 posted on 04/16/2004 8:00:54 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: Fracas; terilyn; onyx; armymarinemom; mewzilla; Howlin; Miss Marple
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.

24 posted on 04/16/2004 8:11:50 PM PDT by Liz
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To: lainde
Logan security July 2001


25 posted on 04/16/2004 8:22:33 PM PDT by armymarinemom (Bring Them Home Now.org--The Few, The Loud, The Latrine)
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To: Libloather
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26 posted on 04/16/2004 8:33:44 PM PDT by Liz
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To: armymarinemom
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.
27 posted on 04/16/2004 8:33:59 PM PDT by Ramius ([...sip...])
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To: Ramius
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.

28 posted on 04/16/2004 8:41:54 PM PDT by armymarinemom (Bring Them Home Now.org--The Few, The Loud, The Latrine)
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To: Liz
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...

29 posted on 04/16/2004 8:44:53 PM PDT by Libloather (Hillary, I want my FBI file back...)
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To: armymarinemom
bttt
30 posted on 04/16/2004 9:09:13 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: Just mythoughts; Liz
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)
31 posted on 04/16/2004 9:40:06 PM PDT by nutmeg (Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
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32 posted on 04/16/2004 9:41:53 PM PDT by nutmeg (Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
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33 posted on 04/16/2004 9:42:42 PM PDT by nutmeg (Why vote for Bush? Imagine Commander in Chief John F’in al-Qerry)
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To: Liz
I would like to go to the original Sperry article....to email it to several people I know. Is there a link?

Great article!

34 posted on 04/16/2004 9:47:13 PM PDT by mickie
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To: Liz
.. 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'.

35 posted on 04/16/2004 9:56:44 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Ramius
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.

36 posted on 04/16/2004 9:58:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: mickie
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.

37 posted on 04/17/2004 3:34:09 AM PDT by Liz
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To: lainde
Betcha there's a lotta Mass. constituents he didn't listen to, either. They oughta sue his **s off.
38 posted on 04/17/2004 3:36:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: mickie
See if this original link works.

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


39 posted on 04/17/2004 3:45:11 AM PDT by Liz
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To: SpinyNorman; Liz; hellinahandcart; NYC GOP Chick; Little Bill; ElectricStrawberry
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.
40 posted on 04/17/2004 5:49:58 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know he's a King?" "Because he doesn't have sh!t all over him.")
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