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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:41 AM
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Why is it NO ONE has lost their job over the failures of 911???
Watching Lee Hamilton brush this incredible fact under the rug this morning on MTP, got me thinking. As far as I know not a single individual, in any relative agency, has been held accountable for the inexplicable lapses in procedure and protocol that allowed 911 to happen.
Is it because placing individual blame would start a domino effect ultimately exposing the Bush administration? The enablers seem to hold the bizarre notion that it's counter productive to go after individuals, even though it's clear many did their jobs improperly. There's a kind of "Too much blame for blame" mantra being chanted. I think it's because nobody wants go down alone; you start firing people, you begin a chain reaction of ass covering that leads all the way to the top.
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Racenut20 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:43 AM
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1. Because the failure came top down. Bush/Chaney/Rumsfeld
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 12:24 PM
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9. it would have to start with the shrub
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:45 AM
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2. When you are in bed with the devil, you cannot throw away the blanket
that covers you.
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:46 AM
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3. Bingo!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 12:16 PM
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7. THESE FIRST TWO RESPONSES
SUM IT ALL UP BEAUTIFULLY.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:46 AM
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4. Dave Frasca: promoted, not even called by the Commission
Sander Hicks interview with John Judge, Co-Director of the 9/11 Citizens Watch

SH: More on the subject of what the Commission should be looking at that they’re not looking at? What about Dave Frasca at the FBI? According to a recent speech I was at by Mike Ruppert, Dave Frasca was the guy who destroyed FBI Al Qaeda records, he sat on the Phoenix Memo, he also ignored the Minneapolis investigation, blocking the warrant that Coleen Rowlely wanted to get on Moussaoi. And then after 9/11 he got promoted to #2 in charge of domestic terrorism at the FBI.

JJ: Because he had done such a good job before.

SH: Right. Has the Commission called Frasca?

JJ: Not that we’re aware of. They’re being so secretive with me that I asked them the other day for them to give me the names and phone numbers of the heads of the six investigative teams and they said "we don’t release any information about our staff." This is a Federal Commission! I said "This is paid for by tax dollars, you’re not going to give me information about your staff?"

SH: And you’re not just Joe Schmoe, you’re representing a citizens group dedicated to monitoring and trying to be helpful.

JJ: We sat down with Zelikow and Felzenberg at one point and said, we want a more formal relationship with the Commission, and Zelikow, beamingly informed us that "We’re exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act, so we don’t have to."

http://www.sanderhicks.com/judge.html
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:52 AM
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5. Because people talk when they're used as scapegoats. (eom)
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DIKB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 11:54 AM
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6. simple
Justice being served would imply that WE THE PEOPLE are in control. We all know that this hasn't been true for years.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-04-04 12:18 PM
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8. First off, the NeoCons don't consider 911 to have been a failure...
...after all, they got exactly what they wanted, didn't they?
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