towards implementing stronger security at airports?
This has to be the most incompetent administration and how the media
keeps giving it the "benefit of the doubt," which in turn continues
to ENABLE the incompetency, is beyond me. It is a sad day for America when they shuffle our security and safety under the rug for political purposes.
For those who say Bush did all he could do to prevent 9/11, I say bullshit and then look at what HAD been WORKING from the Clinton administration. It was a CONCERN for the Clinton administration and they took it seriously. According to the Gore commission:
Beyond the Gore Commission: What next?
May 1, 1998 12:00 PM
Kate Doherty
Pointed questions about baggage, stepped-up luggage screening, requests for photo identification - all before airline passengers are let anywhere near their gates - are some of the tangible results of the increased scrutiny federal agencies have focused on aviation security.
In its final report issued Feb. 12, 1997, the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (the Gore Commission) directed its primary security recommendation at the federal government: "Consider aviation security as a national security issue."
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Up to speed with 1997 The Department of Transportation's status report on the commission's progress, issued on Feb. 12, 1998, asserts that President Clinton has acknowledged aviation security as a "major element of our strategy against terrorism
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The National Security Council has formed a subgroup of federal agencies involved in aviation security to address the White House Commission's security recommendations.http://securitysolutions.com/mag/security_beyond_gore_commission/
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