[B5JMS] Gore's speech re civil liberty

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: "David Williams" <dwilliams298 at comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:28:42 +0000 (UTC)
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"Pelzo63" <pelzo63 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031126025827.05748.00000875 at mb-m13.aol.com...
> <<  It hadn't occurred to any of us that
> the airliners we have flown on can be used as impromptu cruise missiles.
>>
>
>
> it occured to chris carter*, and the writing crew of 7 days, both of which
had
> "airline into building" stories in the few years before, and i believe
also
> crichton or was it grisham?
>
> *very first episode of "the lone gunmen" had someone attempt to fly an
airliner
> into the WTC, though that was done by remote, not suicide.

Someone help me out here.   IIRC, I *think* I remember reading or hearing a
news report post-9/11 about a study by the CIA, FBI, NSA, or..? ("We're all
in the same alphabet soup.")  Anyway, it was a study that had been done a
few years BEFORE 9/11 in which they tried to determine ways that terrorists
might attack us on our soil.  And included in that report was the suggestion
of suicide teams hijacking our planes and crashing them into key buildings.
Does anyone else remember this report?  Or is my cold medicine just getting
to me?

-David W.






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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 06:17:45 +0000 (UTC)
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>Someone help me out here.   IIRC, I *think* I remember reading or hearing a
>news report post-9/11 about a study by the CIA, FBI, NSA, or..? ("We're all
>in the same alphabet soup.")  Anyway, it was a study that had been done a
>few years BEFORE 9/11 in which they tried to determine ways that terrorists
>might attack us on our soil.  And included in that report was the suggestion
>of suicide teams hijacking our planes and crashing them into key buildings.

Further to the point, a few years prior to 9/11, the CIA helped the French to
stop a plan that called for a plane to be hijacked and flown into the Eiffel
Tower.  So the idea that such a thing was unheard-of was simply not true.

Even further still to the point...it would be very easy to know what the
administration knew about the coming attacks, but the Bush administration has
lobbied successfully to keep that part of the information from the
congressional 9/11 probe on the grounds of nationa security...which is ironic
since the whole POINT of the inquiry is to strengthen national security by
finding out what went wrong.

 jms

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