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Jane Garvey, head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1997 to 2002, stepped down from Bombardier Inc.'s board yesterday after her decision to serve on U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's transition team. Garvey will be heading a review of U.S. transportation agencies' decisions and policies. She is regarded in Washington as the top candidate to take over as Secretary of Transportation when Obama is inaugurated in January. She refused to discuss her future, saying yesterday: "I'm going to refer everything to the Transition Office." Garvey has been executive director, infrastructure advisory group, at JP Morgan Securities in the U.S., specializing...

"After less than a year of campaigning, John Kerry has already given the American public a chilling preview of the misguided choices he would make in the unlikely event he is elected president."...."Two of the four planes that attacked our nation on September 11 took off from Logan Airport and 80 of Kerry’s constituents died. Yet Kerry, who held evidence in his hands of Logan’s vulnerabilities, has yet to explain his failure to take meaningful action – action that well may have prevented the horrors of that fateful day.".......... This one really is a follow-up on Joan Swirsky's investigative report...

After less than a year of campaigning, John Kerry has already given the American public a chilling preview of the misguided choices he would make in the unlikely event he is elected president. Kerry hired leftist Joseph Wilson – proven liar – as a foreign-policy advisor, only to dismiss the Pinocchio-like former ambassador after the bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously discredited his claims that there were no attempts by Iraq to buy uranium from Niger and that his wife had no role in getting the CIA to send him to Niger. Kerry hired leftist Sandy Berger – self-admitted pilferer –...

Clintonistas on 9/11 Commission Hunt for Bush Cover-up Two members of the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks who excoriated the Bush administration for its handling of the disaster during public hearings this week are said to be aggressive Democratic partisans with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Complaining that the presence on the commission of high powered Washington lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste and former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick all but guaranteed that the investigation would target the Republican White House, the Wall Street Journal observed last December that the two 9/11 probers were "Democratic partisans [who are] one...