"The truth is, they did know" - Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11

[kpete]

Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11
Updated 11/24/2006

"Immediately (after 9/11), numerous government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to happen?' " Bogdan Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. "The truth is, they did know."

In the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dzakovic says, the team was able to breach security about 90% of the time, sneaking bombs and submachine guns past airport screeners. Expensive new bomb detection machines consistently failed, he says.

The team repeatedly warned the FAA of the potential for security breaches and hijackings but was told to cover up its findings, Dzakovic says.

Eventually, the FAA began notifying airports in advance when the Red Team would be doing its undercover testing, Dzakovic says. He and other Red Team members approached the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General, the General Accounting Office and members of Congress about the FAA's alleged misconduct regarding the Red Team's aviation security tests. No one did anything, he says.

Then came 9/11.

read the rest:
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistle-blower-faa_x.htm

[indepat]

1. Some day, hopefully soon, all the dots are going to be connected

:patriot:

[Mr_Geodesic]

2. There are warnings...

(watch out for terrorists) and then there are warnings (watch out for that guy on this day). I'm sympathetic, but not outraged. I'm not sure this sort of thing helps.

[brer cat]

4. Would you also require the flight number and seat number?

Welcome to DU. Some deeper thinking about the purpose of intelligence analyzing and Governing might make your stay more pleasant.

[Mr_Geodesic]

7. Deep thoughts

about "intelligence analyzing and Governing".

I assume you mean "intelligence analysis and Governance". What would you suggest (aside from the possibility that I'm an evil freep troll)?

[niyad]

6. Presidential Daily Briefing Aug 6, 2001--OSAMA BIN LADEN POISED TO STRIKE IN US

a pdb that, like all of them, were completely ignored by that prancing poseur currently squatting illegally in the people's house.

welcome to DU.

[Mr_Geodesic]

8. I don't like him any better than you do.

But just because someone says "somebody's out to get you" doesn't, of itself, mean you were negligent if you were subsequently gotten. Bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora is much more disturbing.

[U4ikLefty]

9. Bullshit, when you are given a warning & you take NO ACTION to protect,

those you SWORE to safeguard then you ARE NEGLIGENT.

Nice try!!!

[Mr_Geodesic]

13. Oh, damn.

My attempt to vindicate Bush has failed. Guess I'll just go back to FR.

[stepnw1f]

21. You Said It..... (nt)

[omega minimo]

23. RIP Mr. Geodesick

[buddysmellgood]

26. Perhaps you are ignoring all of the other warnings. The memo was big slap-in-the-face

wake up call. It came on top of a pile of warnings that were ignored. PNAC wanted this, and let it happen.

[spillthebeans]

3. yeah yeah we know

James Woods saw them in August, probably on a training excercise.

Only one man noted the behaviour of a group of hijackers on a plane. The Hollywood actor James Woods was people-watching on his flight home to Los Angeles in August when he noticed four Arab men treating a steward rudely. "They ignored her like she didn't exist," he said later. With an actor's instinct he thought they were behaving as if they were on an undercover mission and he told the first officer he was afraid that they were hijackers. Nothing was done, and nothing happened to the flight that day. The men would later be among the hijackers on September 11.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,749765,00.html

the hijackers were gov agents and were let in by the CIA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=125740&mesg_id=125754



next?

[Cleita]

5. They won't get away with any more cover up as things develop.

The truth is coming out slowly but surely. I think it's time to get Condi under oath and make her tell the truth. Yes, they tried once, but it's time to do it again.

[dailykoff]

10. Great article! Answers the perennial question,

If 9/11 was an inside job, why haven't there been whistle blowers?

Answer: There have been, in spades.

Links to related articles:

"Whistle-blowers tell of cost of conscience"
by Catherine Rampell, USA TODAY, Friday, 11/24/06
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistle-blowers_x.htm

"'State secrets privilege' blocks fired translator from suing FBI"
by Catherine Rampell, USA TODAY, Friday, 11/24/06
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistleblower-translator_x.htm

[lukery]

25. terrible series

the series from USA Today totally sucks - especially the one about sibel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2800737

[neebob]

11. Nice misleading headline. nt

[LSK]

12. how so?

[neebob]

16. It makes it sound as if they were warned specifically

that 9/11 was going to happen. Then you find out it was just this team, repeatedly getting stuff through security and warning about that. You don't think that's misleading?

[rman]

19. the headline is a direct quote from the article -

so if anything is misleading, it's not the headline but the article.

[Minnesota_Lib]

24. Yes, the headline implied the FAA was warned about 9/11. It was very misleading.

[Imagevision]

14. Sad day for amerika when bush & Cheney aren't impeached

[AnnieBW]

15. Sounds like a Ferriner

Dzakovic? Sounds like a dang ferriner (foreigner) to me! Why does he hate America? :sarcasm:

[Selteri]

17. I hope they connect those dots soon, it's starting to look like

a rorshak blot from the way it's been developing into a full picture without the dots being connected.

[Imagevision]

18. Rice on PDB; "it wasn't specific, they didn't say where or when?"

Neocons will be running Rice in 08

[fooj]

20. You know what REALLY pisses me off?

Apparently, Keane and Hamilton won't release any of the evidence until January 2009. WTF is up with that? Hmmmmmm...

Just like they are holding on to the findings of the ISG for another month or so...

Sounds like those two puppets really give a damn about getting to the bottom of things, eh?

Who else can say COVERUP?

:grr:

F*ck all of this "blue-ribbon" panel shit. Enough, already.

[stepnw1f]

22. Bush Admin Allowed 9-11 to Happen

Howe much more evidence is there? It's just a matter of time and History WILL condemn them all as TRAITORS to the US and War Criminal Corporate Wimps.