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SCANDAL OF DEMS WHO PUT POLITICS ABOVE TRUTH
New York Post ^ | 4/14/04

Posted on 04/13/2004 11:56:08 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

April 14, 2004 -- Now there is no doubt that the Democratic attack dogs on the national 9/11 commission are embarked on a partisan mission: To defeat George W. Bush in November. They want this more than they want the United States to win the war on terror. Indeed, more than they want to deliver truth to Americans everywhere, but especially to the families of the 9/11 victims - who expect better, and certainly deserve it.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; 229; 911; 911commission; dems; kerry; radicalleftist; sept11; traitors; treason; unfit
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To: kattracks
The last eight sentences of the article imply the author believes Kerry isn't a democrat to the rotten core! Democrats don't hesitate to sacrifice more American lives, if it will aid them in their lust to seize back power over the sheeple they manipulate so freely. Just look at the fools populating New York State!
21 posted on 04/14/2004 6:59:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: kattracks
I LOVE it!!!

Go NY Post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
22 posted on 04/14/2004 7:05:56 AM PDT by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: GailA
hanoi john has been in the senate 19 years...what legislation has he intro'd to fix these structural problems? NOT ONE!

Worse than that Gail. Kerry recieved IMPLICIT warning on jihad highjacking out of his own Logan airport

Full story at

March 15, 2004 -- SEN. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.

Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his state's main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.

"He just did the Pontius Pilate thing and passed the buck" on back through the federal bureaucracy, said Brian Sullivan, a retired FAA special agent from the Boston area who in May 2001 personally warned Kerry that Logan was ripe for a "jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack."

Rewind to May 6, 2001. That night, a Boston TV station (Fox-25) aired reporter Deborah Sherman's story on an undercover investigation at Logan that Sullivan and another retired agent helped set up. In nine of 10 tries, a crew got knives and other weapons through security checkpoints - including the very ones the 9/11 hijackers would later exploit.

The next day, Sullivan fired off a two-page letter to Kerry highlighting the systemic failures.

"With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers?" he warned. "Think what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely." The toll from such an attack would be economic, as well as human, he predicted with chilling accuracy.

More than 11 weeks later, Kerry finally replied to his well-informed and anxious constituent. "I have forwarded your tape to the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General [DOT OIG]," he said in a brief July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which I've obtained.

Yet Sullivan had made it clear in his letter that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere. "The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA," he told Kerry. Sullivan suggested he show the tape to peers on committees with FAA oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.

But he never heard from Kerry again.

At that point, Steve Elson, the other agent who'd teamed up on the TV sting, decided to take a crack at the junior senator.

A fiery ex-Navy Seal, Elson spent three years as part of an elite FAA unit called the Red Team, which did covert testing of airport security across the country, before retiring as a field agent in Houston. 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. He went ballistic, warning that if Kerry didn't act soon he'd risk the lives of planeloads of his actual constituents. That warning now looks like prophecy: At least 82 Kerry constituents were murdered aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.

Kinda puts a damper on the whole "Bush failed" smear campaign, doesn't it?

23 posted on 04/14/2004 9:02:21 PM PDT by Bommer (John Kerry = "You mean I can get a Purple Heart for cutting myself shaving?")
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To: kattracks
Bump.
24 posted on 04/14/2004 9:14:58 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: kattracks
In World War II, every one rallied around a Democratic President to stop Hitler and Tojo. Today we can't count on half the country rallying around a GOP President to stop Bin Laden and Saddam. Its striking to witness the difference between them and now. John F. Seinfeld could say its time his party put country ahead of politics but he's too cravenly to speak up for national unity. And remember we're in a wartime situation. We expect better from our opposition party but they hate the President more than they hate our country's enemies. In the end I hope that's their downfall.
25 posted on 04/14/2004 9:25:16 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: TheGrimReaper
"Anyone detect a pattern?"

Anyone with an open eye does. I just hope there are enough eyes open.

26 posted on 04/14/2004 9:33:28 PM PDT by blackbart.223
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