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Subject: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits -- say federal
judges......

 

 

"Lawyers for the victims of the attacks have said the FBI should not be
forced to provide more information.", bet you these lawyers ARE
Neocon/zioncon!!  

 

federal judges: 70-80% of these are Neocon/zioncon.  Same the lawyer gang.
You will never win one over these, unless the country is restored to the
people  These are unelected officials and THEIR agents. Even the elected
agents don't implement the will of the people, i.e. before the election they
say the right things and once elected, they do something else..

  

From: World View 

 

Judge: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits
Friday, July 17, 2009 
Associated Press
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/16/20090716US-airlines16-ON.h
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ATLANTA - A federal judge ruled Thursday that airlines and other companies
in the industry that are being sued by families of terrorism victims can't
question FBI agents about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The defendants wanted to depose the agents and sought access to other
evidence related to the investigation of the attacks that killed nearly
3,000 people in order to show at trial that the government's failure to
catch the terrorists and prevent the attacks mitigates and excuses any
alleged fault on the aviation companies' part.

The government objected. 

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the defendants have
also argued that the terrorists likely would have succeeded even if the
defendants had exercised due care.

"The issues to be tried relate to the acts and omissions of the aviation
defendants, not the government," Hellerstein wrote in his ruling. "The
government's failures to detect and abort the terrorists' plots would not
affect the aviation defendants' potential liability."

There was no immediate comment from the defendants or their lawyers.
Spokespersons for UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines
and US Airways Group Inc. declined to comment. Lawyers for several airlines
did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Other defendants include
Delta Air Lines Inc., Continental Airlines Inc., AirTran Airways, Boeing Co.
and several airport authorities and security companies.

The judge said he plans to set a trial date for the lawsuits involving three
wrongful death cases and 19 property damage cases on July 28.

Many relatives of victims of the attacks received money from a special
national fund established to compensate victims' families, though some
relatives chose to sue instead.

The lawsuits claim negligence on the part of the defendants and seek to
recover damages for injuries and fatalities, property damage and business
loss that occurred as a result of the attacks. According to court papers,
the plaintiffs have alleged or have indicated they are likely to allege that
the aviation companies should have anticipated that terrorists would hijack
planes and crash them into buildings in coordinated suicide attacks, and
that the defendants should have put in place security procedures to
effectively defend against such attacks.

The government urged the judge to block the aviation companies from
interviewing six current and former FBI employees who the companies say
would be able to testify as to what intelligence the FBI, CIA, Federal
Aviation Administration and airlines had before the attacks regarding the
terrorists' plans and capabilities, as well as how the entities shared and
exploited the intelligence.

The government argued that it would be impossible to interview the employees
without disclosing classified or privileged material that could cause
serious damage to national security and interfere with pending law
enforcement proceedings.

The largest investigation in FBI history has resulted in 167,000 interviews
and more than 155,000 pieces of evidence and involved the pursuit of 500,000
investigative leads, the government noted.

The government said the FBI has turned over more than 33,000 pages of
information to the aviation industry lawyers, including more than 10,000
pages of laboratory pictures and related information, witness interviews and
descriptions of the hijackers' weapons.

The airlines and aviation companies have said they are defending themselves
against lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages for injuries,
fatalities, property damage and business losses related to the attacks.

The companies filed separate lawsuits against the CIA and the FBI seeking to
force terrorism investigators to say whether the aviation industry was to
blame for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lawyers for the victims of the attacks have said the FBI should not be
forced to provide more information.

In Thursday's ruling, the judge also denied the aviation defendants' motion
for an order that the 9/11 commission's report as a whole, a staff monograph
and selected staff statements, are relevant to the lawsuits. He said
specific portions of the report may be admissible.

As to a motion by the defendants seeking to have testimony given by FBI
agents during the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacharias Moussaoui admitted
in the lawsuits case, the judge granted the motion only as to the testimony
of two agents in which they recount what they learned in their
investigations.

"Testimony as to what their superiors did or did not do is not relevant, and
is not admissible," the judge wrote.

Moussaoui, a French citizen, is serving a life sentence after pleading
guilty under torture to helping plan the attacks.

  

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