Robert Novak on 9/13/2001: It was an "inside job."

[milkyway]

Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an "inside job," probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance. This makes all the more ominous Tuesday's national catastrophe and its dismal consequences.

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In the rage and mourning following Tuesday's disaster, few officials wanted to dwell on how a 10-year hiatus of airline hijackings in this country could be followed by four in one hour. At a minimum, the blame can be put on ill-trained, incompetent personnel performing the screening of passengers. At the worst, security experts fear collusion with the terrorists, possibly even extending to the cockpit. This is a subject that the airlines are loathe to discuss.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20010913.shtml
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I found this interesting little Novak article on the Awoken web site, which was the site that had the Stanley Hilton interview posted.

http://www.incunabula.org/hive/index.php

http://www.incunabula.org/hive/modules.php?op=modload&n

(edited to include the original source link at Townhall.)

[Nashyra]

1. I think to even consider collusion in the cockpit

is a grave grave grave insult to the fine men and women who were the first to die on that day. If the fucking * had just let the airlines, faa, atc and other transportation officials know of the threat i think things would be different. I belive LIHOP or perhaps MIHOP never never never would i beleive that any of our American Airline pilots or United airlines pilots would consider going along with a hijacking. BULLSHIT.

The men and women of the airlines that were killed are hardly ever mentioned, and it was Betty Ong Flight Attendant from American Airlines Flight 11 that had the courage and the foresight to risk her life by contacting the reservation center for American Airlines 20 minutes before the first crash occured. Gob Bless those heros that noone ever mentions.

[milkyway]

2. I agree. The part Novak got right was that there must've been complicity

for these attacks to be successful. I wonder if he ever pursued this further, and if he dropped it, why? Perhaps he shut his yap about complicity when he realized how high up it might lead.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Two weeks prior to 9-11 I was able to board a plane

at LaGuardia Airport without showing anyone my ticket or boarding pass.

I even tried to force it on the attendent at the gate and she was in too much of a hurry to bother.

Security, what security? It was a farce.