Ky. Plane Crash Screened for Secrets (TSA reviewing

Source: AP

July 24, 2007
Ky. Plane Crash Screened for Secrets
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:38 p.m. ET

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- The federal agency known for screening passengers and baggage has raised some eyebrows by reviewing the investigation of a deadly Comair plane crash for secret information about aviation procedures.

The Transportation Security Administration has no role in the investigation of the crash, which killed 49 people after the jet took off from the wrong runway last year.

But the agency doesn't want ''sensitive security information'' involving airline operations to become public, said TSA spokeswoman Amy Kudwa. It was the first American commercial airplane crash since TSA was created in November 2001 as a response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Attorney Stan Chesley, who is representing two families in lawsuits against Comair, said his firm was still waiting for records and depositions to be distributed.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Kentucky-Crash-TSA.html

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What "secrets" are Bush's friends trying to keep from the general public.... :grr:

The bush administration created the TSA and it buys screening machines that don't work for billions of dollars.

It looks to me like the TSA is just another republican front to transfer taxpayer dollars into the pockets of rich contractors the contribute to republican election campaigns.