Posted on 09/11/2004 9:15:59 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
For that matter, blame John Kerry and Ted Kennedy for 911 (Logan Airport).
September 11th. Four planes. Two took off from Logan Airport. Logan is in Boston. Boston is in Massachusetts. There are two Senators from Massachusetts. Senator Ted Kennedy, 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C., and Senator John Kerry, 304 Russell Senate Office Building Washington D.C.. http://www.usatoday.com/news/gallery/2004/03-24-kerry/flash.htm
Recent books, such as Flying Blind, point out the weaknesses in security at our Domestic and International Airports, thanks to political correctness. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy should know about political correctness. Logan Airport. Massachusetts. Two Senators. Massachusetts. 911. There is a connection.
The media likes to find every venue to blame George Bush for 911. For many in the dominant media, who have demonstrated their partisanship as willing operatives for the leftist wing of the Democratic party, the nakedness of the bias, alliance and collusion with the Democrats, unprecedented in history during this Presidential election cycle 2004, where blaming Bush is literally a cult obsession, on the same level as the Middle East blaming Israel and the Jews for 911. And yet, the same dominant media has very little to say about Logan Airport, 911, and the two Senators from Massachusetts.
Why? We know why.
You know, I have a question to ask. They blame Bush. And, others can play the same game. For that matter, blame John Kerry and Ted Kennedy for 911. After all, they were the two Senators of Massachusetts, where we have Logan Airport, the gateway from which two of the planes with the Islamic terrorists took off, and brought us 911, and John Kerry was given very specific warming by the FAA about ease of a terrorist action out of Logan Airport, provided to him back in May of 2001, and Ted Kennedy was also given such warnings. There are verified postings on the Free Republic on this, and there are, though few and far between, “main stream” media articles confirming this.
Will PBS give in-depth audience to this question?
CBS 60 Minutes?
American Airlines Flight 11. United Airlines Flight 175. Logan Airport. Two Senators. Political correctness. Ignoring warnings, explicit information about terrorist actions. Questions the media needs to ask John Kerry and Ted Kennedy?
Where’s the media?
After the Senators were warned, a videotape was delivered to Kerry by retired special agent Brian Sullivan of the FAA, capturing FAA special ops successfully breaking through Logan’s security with deadly weapons, ten independent and successful penetrations of Logan, all on tape, and delivered to the Senator.
The Islamic terrorists are to blame for 911. Today is September 11th, and in remembrance of this date and those who died, I blame the Islamic Fascists.
I don’t blame Bush. I don’t blame Kerry or Kennedy.
Or . . .
Actually, maybe I do sort of blame some politicians. Especially the politically correct ones.
Maybe today, if only this day, the leftwing media will stop blaming Bush. But, by tomorrow, they will begin again.
They certainly will never ask any questions about the Logan Airport, 911, and two Senators from Massachusetts.
They won’t do that.
Maybe we should? After all, like the so-called Commission said, we need to ask the hard questions about what happened.
So whose asking?
Not PBS. Not CBS 60 Minutes. Not Hardball.
Not in this election cycle.
It would be nice to have some kind of military victory today!
Al Gore gets "credit", as well.
He of the airport security blowoff.
Either way when you have Ted Kennedy at the helm, You are taking your life in your own hands.
Kennedy has supplied example after example of his inability to function in a responsible and sober way.
And sober in every sense of the word's meaning.
This state is a petri dish teeming with socialist bacilli! It's not just Kennedy and Kerry... the whole rotten structure on Beacon Hill needs to be torched... and the Capitol moved to the west/central part of the state.
NOTHING GOOD COMES OUT OF THIS FILTHY, SOCIALIST RATHOLE!
From Front Page Magazine 3/15/2004
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.
Sullivan followed up by having the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry's office.
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.
"Enhanced security would have prevented the hijackings, virtually without question," Elson now insists. If nothing else, it might have discouraged ringleader Mohamed Atta, who monitored security procedures at Logan weeks before the hijackings.
Yet the warnings apparently did stick in Kerry's mind: In the days after 9/11, Kerry told the Boston Globe that he'd triggered an undercover probe of Logan security by the General Accounting Office in June 2001.
But he wrote Sullivan no such thing in his July letter, stating only that he passed his warning and tape on to Transportation, not GAO. And GAO, though it is the investigative arm of Congress, didn't seem to know what the senator was talking about. The agency had tested security at two airports before 9/11, but neither one was Logan. And Kerry confessed he didn't know the outcome of the probe he says he triggered.
Some follow-up, senator.
Sullivan and Elson, joined by aviation-security experts David Forbes and Andrew Thomas, want to see Kerry hauled before the 9/11 Commission to answer questions about what he knew about Logan's lapses, and specifically what he did about them, before that fateful day. It's a reasonable request - especially since Kerry has complained that President Bush will only give the panel an hour of his time.
Where was Kerry's sense of urgency? Where was his leadership? These are fair questions to ask of someone vying for Bush's job.
"We don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to act," Sullivan urged Kerry in his letter. But tragically, that's exactly what happened - at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and on both sides of the aisle.
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Paul Sperry, formerly of Investor's Business Daily, is Washington bureau chief of WorldNetDaily.com and author of the new book "Crude Politics." He is also a Hoover Institution media fellow.
RAH RAH TEDDY: ABC's Marc Ambinder reports that Ted Kennedy held an impromptu pep rally at this morning's all staff meeting at Kerry headquarters. Campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill told the assembled staffers that the train is on the track, and introduced Kennedy
The train might be on the track, but it sure isn't going anywhere, meanwhile the Bush fighter jet has already left the runway with afterburners on.
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