[BlessedByLiberty]

Thank you for this important information.

I would like to ask if anyone can help clarify something from the 9-11 Commission yesterday. Gorelick (sp)said that Minetta the TSA and FAA had not received any warnings of the summer threats.

Clarification please: I thought the TSA was created under the Dept. of Homeland Security which was formed after 9/11, therefore only the FAA would be notified. Was Gorelick deliberately trying to obfuscate this point?

I could be mistaken as to the formation of the TSA and I'm the one mistaken.

Thanks to anyone who has the info.

[goodnesswins]

No....I think the TSA has been around for awhile.....check out their web page.....their TASKS may have been increased in the last couple of years, however.

http://www.tsa.gov/public/

[eggman]

The TSA was formed November 19 2001 under the Department of Transportation so it did not exist at that time.

[Mo1]

"I would like to ask if anyone can help clarify something from the 9-11 Commission yesterday. Gorelick (sp)said that Minetta the TSA and FAA had not received any warnings of the summer threats"



I just checked and according to the AP transcript .. this is what Gorelick said about Minetta

http://wid.ap.org/transcripts/rice.html

First of all, while it may be that Dick Clarke was informing you, many of the other people at the CSG-level, and the people who were brought to the table from the domestic agencies, were not telling their principals.

Secretary Mineta, the secretary of transportation, had no idea of the threat. The administrator of the FAA, responsible for security on our airlines, had no idea. Yes, the attorney general was briefed, but there was no evidence of any activity by him about this.