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> I've seen this article all over right-wing message boards..it
proves...what? That Senator Kerry sent the material he was provided up the
proper chain of command to people whose job it was to investigate the
allegations.
> The Right seems to think that this "disgruntled ex-employee" (to use the
standard right-wing put-down applied to all of the officials abandoning
Bush's leaky vessel of state) had the advance warning of 9-11 that Kerry
irresponsibly ignored, when the article itself states that he did no such
thing; he did not ignore the warnings, he passed them on.
> Since the Right now claim to have a witness with advance warning, they
now must acknowlege the possibility that the Administration ALSO could have
received advance warning but did nothing with that information.
> The buck-passing can stop right here.
> Kerry did the right thing with this warning. He passed it on to the proper
authorities. The spin that the ex-employee thought that those authorities
would not react to the warnings does not make Kerry responsible for what the
Administration did with the employees warning. That employee contacted only
John Kerry? Hard to believe if the employee thought this as as important as
he now says. How about putting this guy on a witness stand and asking him
what else he did to warn the government?
> The White House, on the other hand, prepared to take advantage of the
attacks they KNEW were coming.
> You choose: who screwed up more? Kerry or the White House?
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> DATE: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:09:56
> From: Ed Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >WASHINGTON - A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the
government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen.
John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport
before the 9-11 hijackings there.
> >Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential
hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic
warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.
> >Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from the Boston area, advised
Kerry in a May 7, 2001, letter (page 1, page 2) that Logan was ripe for a
"jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack." He
cited serious breaches at Logan security checkpoints exposed by an
undercover investigation he and another former agent helped a Boston TV news
station conduct.
> >Sullivan says he had a copy of the undercover videotape hand-delivered to
Kerry's office.
> >It turns out the person who delivered it was a senior FAA agent in
Washington who's now with the Transportation Security Administration. The
agent, Bogdan Dzakovic, headed covert testing of airport security across the
country before TSA took over aviation security from FAA after 9-11.
> >In an exclusive interview, he says he gave the tape to Jamie Wise, a
Kerry staffer at the time.
> >After the office visit, "I received no feedback from anyone there,"
Dzakovic told WorldNetDaily.
> >Kerry boasts in campaign ads he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years
before 9-11."
> >But he waited three months to reply to Sullivan's letter. And his July
24, 2001, letter, a copy of which was obtained by WorldNetDaily, merely
offers to pass Sullivan's warning on to the Transportation Department's
inspector general - even though Sullivan had made it clear in his letter
that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents, including
Dzakovic, had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere.
> >"The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA," Sullivan
told Kerry.
> >He suggested Kerry show the tape to peers on committees with FAA
oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.
> >Yet the correspondence stopped there. Kerry never followed up with him.
> >"He just did the Washington shuffle," said Sullivan, who thinks Kerry had
a chance to prevent the Boston hijackings.
> >Another former agent, Steve Elson, who set up the TV sting at Logan,
tried to follow up with Kerry, but was told by Wise he wasn't a constituent.
(Elson, formerly of the elite Red Team that did covert testing, was a
Houston field agent at the time.)
> >He came unglued, warning the staffer that if Kerry didn't act soon he'd
risk the lives of planeloads of his actual constituents.
> >"What would the senator say if a large plane filled with holiday
travelers took off from Logan at Thanksgiving for somewhere in California
and went - boom - spattering men, women, children and babies all over the
landscape at a couple of hundred knots?" demanded Elson, an ex-Navy SEAL.
> >His warning now looks like prophecy: At least 82 Kerry constituents were
murdered aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.
> >Elson says he also dealt with Gregg Rothschild, Kerry's legislative
director at the time. Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
> >Dzakovic laments the lack of attention to their warnings.
> >"We could have fed fish at the aquarium and accomplished just as much,"
he said.
> >Sullivan is perhaps the most frustrated. His two-page warning to Kerry
four months before the Logan hijackings was eerily prescient.
> >"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 wrote. "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.
> >And the Logan security failures he highlighted in the letter included
breaches at the very checkpoints the hijackers would later exploit.
> >The undercover investigation by Fox affiliate WFXT in Boston showed crews
penetrating security checkpoints at Logan with knives and other weapons in
nine of 10 tries.
> >Elson says the crew, led by reporter Deborah Sherman, walked through with
Leatherman tools concealed in fanny packs. The Leatherman is a fancy utility
knife. The 9-11 hijackers used utility knives. Sherman says she also had no
luck getting Kerry to act on the video he apparently saw.
> >"It was always being 'reviewed' every time I called," she said. "There
was no comment or action taken on the senator's part other than passing the
tape along to someone else."
> >Sullivan - a registered independent who's also critical of Bush's
handling of aviation security, both before and since 9-11 - thinks Kerry
could have saved the Twin Towers, which were toppled by the Boston
jetliners, and thousands of lives.
> >"John Kerry should have - and could have - prevented 9-11," he said.
> >How? "He could have taken direct action to address the concerns we had
identified by visiting Logan and the MassPort authorities at Logan or the
Massachusetts State Police," he said.
> >If that didn't work to bring about corrective action, he could have
applied political pressure by having Sullivan and other agents testify
before Congress, he says.
> >"Enhanced security would have prevented the hijackings, virtually without
question," Elson agreed. If nothing else, it might have discouraged
ringleader Mohamed Atta, who monitored security procedures at Logan weeks
before the hijackings.
> >Phone calls to Kerry's campaign were not returned.
> >Right after 9-11, he told the Boston Globe that he'd triggered an
undercover probe of Logan security by the General Accounting Office in June
2001, based on the TV report.
> >Only, he wrote Sullivan no such thing in his July letter, stating only
that he passed his warning and the tape on to Transportation, not GAO.
> >And GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, did not test security at
Logan. (Kerry confessed he didn't know the outcome of the probe he says he
initiated.)
> >GAO spokesman Jeff Nelligan says there is no evidence Kerry requested
anything specific with regard to Logan, although he says GAO had
communications with "a number of interested members and staff, including
Sen. John Kerry's office" about airport screener testing work in 2001.
> >He would not elaborate.
> >Sullivan and Elson, joined by aviation-security experts David Forbes and
Andrew Thomas, want to see Kerry called before the 9-11 Commission, as well
as President Bush, to answer questions about what he knew about Logan's
lapses, and specifically what he did about them, before that fateful day.
They also recommend GAO and Transportation officials testify to sort out
discrepancies in Kerry's story.
> >Calls to the panel were not immediately returned.
> >"We don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to act," Sullivan urged
Kerry in his letter.
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