Interesting. This article convinced a "waffler friend" about LIHOP/MIHOP!

[KoKo]

I have been raving to this friend since 9/11 happened about how Bush and his Administration covered up 9/11 and led us into War to cover it up even more.

This New York Times article, was the clincher! My friend read this and said..."OMG, there's really something big there...I can't believe this."

My friend was a big fan of Spy Novels from Cold War and James Bond movies but thought that was all fantasy. THIS ARTICLE, made them understand that what Ian Fleming, Robert Ludlum, John LeCarre and many others like Jack Higgins and even Herman Wouk were writing about are all coming true for us, today.

Here's the article from NYT's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/national/06CND-TAPE.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=




May 6, 2004
F.A.A. Official Scrapped Tape of 9/11 Controllers' Statements
By MATTHEW L. WALD

ASHINGTON, May 6 — At least six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, made a tape recording that same day describing the events, but the tape was destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it, the Transportation Department said in a report today. The taping began before noon on Sept. 11 at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, in Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, where about 16 people met in a basement conference room known as "the Bat Cave" and passed around a microphone, each recalling his or her version of the events a few hours earlier.

But officials at the center never told higher-ups of the tape's existence, and it was later destroyed by an F.A.A. official described in the report as a quality-assurance manager there. That manager crushed the cassette in his hand, shredded the tape and dropped the pieces into different trash cans around the building, according to a report made public today by the inspector general of the Transportation Department.

The tape had been made under an agreement with the union that it would be destroyed after it was superseded by written statements from the controllers, according to the inspector general's report. But the quality-assurance manager asserted that making the tape had itself been a violation of accident procedures at the Federal Aviation Administration, the report said. The inspector general, Kenneth M. Mead, said that the officials' keeping the existence of the tape a secret and the decision by one to destroy it had not served "the interests of the F.A.A., the department or the public" and could foster suspicions among the public.

Mr. Mead had been asked by Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, to look into how well the aviation agency had cooperated with what is widely known as the 9/11 commission, a bipartisan, independent panel investigating the terror attacks. On the tape, the controllers, some of whom had spoken by radio to people on the planes and some who had tracked the aircraft on radar, gave statements of 5 to 10 minutes each, according to the report.

The tape's value was not clear, Mr. Mead said, because no one was sure what was on it, although the written statements given later by five of the controllers were broadly consistent with "sketchy" notes taken at the time by people in the Bat Cave. (The sixth controller who spoke on the tape did not give a written statement, apparently because that controller had not spoken to either of the planes or observed it on radar.) One of the central questions about the events of that morning is how the F.A.A. responded to emerging clues that four planes had been hijacked. A tape made within hours of the events, as well as written

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1. Wow, a real "historical document"

shredded.