Good work pinning the tale on the donkey.
Hey, a FReeper may be responsible for Newsmax breaking the story? See posts #8 & #15 here.
Hopefully between all of you, the mainstream media will have to take notice?
But the attention to gate security is misguided. The hijackers didn't do anything illegal and it now appears their weapons were prepositioned.
No security at the gate could have stopped this.
Didn't know if the Media would ever pick it up .. so I took matters into my on hands and email everyone I know about this news .. and I have a feeling other freepers did the same ..
Sad part is .. this may just be the tip of the ice as for what the Clinton/Gore goones have done .. it just makes me SICK!!!
Like I said .. if the Media doesn't tell people the TRUTH .. then it's up to us ..
Another money trail that may be worth following. In 1998 Clinton made lots of noise about getting Bin Laden. He rattled sabres and said something like he would take whatever action necessary to get him. Yet all that materializes is a few missles shot at someone else's asprin factory in Sudan.
Since there is no treason which I believe the criminal Clinton would commit, I ask: was there a money trail from Bin Laden to Clinton or the DNC? Clinton made noise and was bought off by drug companies, by airlines, etc. By Bin Laden?
Remember Pan Am 103? That’s the airplane that was brought down by a bomb over Scotland. One Libyan terrorist has been convicted. Was the Libyan government held responsible? There was ample evidence that Kadaffy (there are 341 ways to spell it) was part of the plot. Did we go after him? Hardly. Seth Lipsky, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, tells us that the Clinton Administration even acted on behalf of Libya to prevent families of the victims from pressing claims against the Libyan government. Oh, and that convicted bomber? Guess who’s has joined in handling his appeal --- not in American courts, but in the Scottish courts. None other than our Clintonista pal, Alan Dershowitz.
So --- just why did the Clinton Administration work so hard to keep Libya from paying for the Pan Am 103 bombing? Maybe there’s a good reason … so, what is it?
There’s more:
American citizen Alisa Flatow was killed in an Iranian funded terrorist attack in Israel. Our congress passed a law that allowed American victims of terrorism to sue in court. Soverign immunity for acts of terrorism was removed by that law. Alisa Flatow’s family sued, and won a big judgment. When the Flatow family tried to collect under the law the Clinton Administration stepped in and argued against the Flatow family in court. Clinton wanted the Iranians to be allowed to keep their property and assets.
So – how is this for fighting terrorism? American citizens are victimized by terrorists. They work through the legal processes – even under a law passed by our own congress – to recover damages from the parties responsible. Then along comes Bill Clinton and his gang to protect ---- who? The victims? NO! The terrorists!
Can someone please explain this to me?
I love the way the author of this report tried to minimize her objections:
Editor's Note:4. This edition contains as Appendix I a dissent by Commissioner Cummock which was transmitted to the Commission one week after the report was voted on in public session and presented to President Clinton.
During the public session, Commissioner Cummock dissented from three recommendations. The dissent published in this document goes far beyond those registered in public. It presents for the first time material and arguments the other Commissioners did not have an opportunity to consider. However, many of the arguments made in the dissent were considered and rejected by the other members of the Commission.
GAO ReportBACKGROUND ---------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 0:1 The Airport and Airway Trust Fund was established by the Airport and Airway Revenue Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-258) to finance FAA's investments in the airport and airway system, such as construction and safety improvements at airports and technological upgrades to the air traffic control system. Historically, about 87 percent of the tax revenues for the Trust Fund has come from a tax on domestic airline tickets. Before it lapsed at the end of 1996, the tax was 10 percent of the fares paid. The remainder of the Trust Fund was financed by a $6 per passenger charge on flights departing the United States for international destinations, a 6.25 percent charge on the amount paid to transport domestic cargo by air, a 15-cents-per-gallon charge on purchases of noncommercial aviation gasoline, and a 17.5-cents-per-gallon charge on purchases of noncommercial jet fuel. STATUS OF THE TRUST FUND ---------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 0:2 In fiscal year 1997, under current law, the Trust Fund is to provide $5.3 billion (62 percent) of FAA's budget of $8.6 billion.\5 FAA and the Treasury originally estimated that if the taxes that finance the Trust Fund lapsed on December 31, 1996, the Trust Fund would be about $1 billion short of the funding needed to finance its portion of FAA's budget. However, in late January 1997, the Treasury acknowledged that it had miscalculated the balance of the Trust Fund because the agency incorrectly assumed that airlines would pay most of the taxes that they owed for the last several months of 1996 by the end of the year. However, under a regulatory interpretation provided to the airlines by IRS, they do not have to make most of those payments until late February 1997, and most airlines have not as yet paid. When these taxes are paid, they cannot be transferred from the General Fund to the Trust Fund because the authority to do so lapsed at the end of 1996. As a result, the Trust Fund may be about $2 billion short of the funding needed to finance its portion of FAA's fiscal year 1997 budget. FAA and Treasury officials are still attempting to determine the precise amount of the shortfall. However, based on FAA and Treasury data, a shortfall of $2 billion would mean that in order to pay its workforces through the end of fiscal year 1997, FAA would have to stop making new capital commitments by about March 1997. Reinstating the authority to move tax receipts from the General Fund to the Trust Fund by March would provide FAA with money to fund new capital commitments to late July 1997. If the Congress reinstates the taxes (or adopts some other financing mechanism) by July, the Trust Fund should be able to fully finance its portion of FAA's fiscal year 1997 budget.
"Five years ago this month, a presidential commission led by Vice President Al Gore backpedaled on a tough baggage-screening proposal, after a flood of airline contributions to the Democratic Party in the closing weeks of the 1996 presidential election."