Reply #9: only one person, an FBI agent, prosecuted [View All]

[amazona]

To the best of my knowledge, only one person, an FBI agent, has been charged in connection with the short sales of American Airlines and United Airlines stock in the run-up to Sept. 11. I've lost the link though. To the best of my recollection, he wasn't a terrorist. He was one of the (apparently great many) people who were aware that the attacks were coming and instead of breaking the law to at least phone loved ones or the damn CNN to tell people not to fly on these airlines...he made a choice to cash in by making some stock trades instead.

Now if it were you and I, and we were going to put ourselves in jail, I like to think we would have chosen to do it by being heroes and getting word out to the public about what was going to happen. But who knows. It is hard to be dismissed as a kook, which is mostly what would have happened. The warnings were reserved for the people at the very highest level. Not even the FAA was properly warned. Sigh.