Senators Gave Immunity To Airport Security Firms

Senators Gave Immunity to 9-11 Airport Security Firms, Face Voters in 2004

Lack of a public criminal investigation of the largest mass murder case in United States history has raised worldwide questions about why career prosecutors and grand juries are not permitted to interrogate government officials about their prior knowledge of reports about "Arabs training to use planes as weapons to fly into United States buildings," why multiple legislators and cabinet officials met with the Pakistani General funding the terrorists during the week prior to and on the morning of the attacks, and why the President, the Defense Secretary, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not take immediate action. All three knew a half-hour before the first crash that hijacked planes were headed to New York City, via Secret Service secure phone communication bridges. This, as congressmen voted, in effect, to tie up evidence linked to airport security companies which would shed light on any 9-11 investigation.

by Tom Flocco

PHILADELPHIA -- January 4, 2004 -- (TomFlocco.com) -- In light of the current problems the airline industry is experiencing regarding terrorist threats linked to canceled incoming overseas flights due to security problems in London and other foreign terminals, the National Air Disaster Alliance / Foundation (NADA / F -- www.PlaneSafe.org ) has continued to express outrage that Congress gave corporate immunity to airport security companies responsible for security at U.S. airports on September 11, 2001.

Gail Dunham, President of NADA / F said "Members of Congress made a choice--protect the American people, or protect the three airport security companies responsible for September 11, 2001. The votes to protect those foreign corporations prevailed....some senators thought it was more important to shield those airport security companies from corporate responsibility, which also greatly limits any investigation into the airport security failures of 9/11."

This, as the FBI has refused to release airport security video tapes, air traffic phone conversation tapes, accurate and complete flight manifests, independent examination of internal memory chips from four recovered flight and voice data recorders, and declined media access to airport boarding gate employees and U.S. air traffic radio employees--all of which would confirm the identities of all passengers boarding the doomed jets.

The September 11 attacks represent the first mass murder perpetrated on U.S. soil which will not be subject to a public criminal investigation with subpoenaed witnesses testifying under oath in front of the American people in a criminal courtroom setting--with interrogation by professional criminal prosecutors.

Instead, victim family members have had to watch as Congress allowed the White House to redact 28 pages from its own 9-11 congressional report, followed by a soft 9-11 Commission which hears testimony in secret and will not hear the public testimony under oath of government officials responsible for the decision-making process on the day of the attacks. And the Commission employs no career criminal prosecutors to ask the questions.

Neither the Congressional Intelligence Committee nor the 9-11 Commission has made known whether Florida Governor Jeb Bush and FBI operatives will publicly testify and answer questions about why they loaded onto a C-130 military cargo plane all documents, reports and evaluations of the Saudi terrorists who supposedly attended and took lessons at Huffman Aviation School in Venice, Florida.

The September 11 attacks represent the first mass murder perpetrated on U.S. soil which will not be subject to a public criminal investigation with subpoenaed witnesses testifying under oath in front of the American people in a criminal courtroom setting--with interrogation by professional criminal prosecutors.

The FBI has refused to release the documents which would also shed light on the capabilities and flight skills of the so-called "hijackers" and whether or not they possessed the ability to pilot jumbo jets and execute the type of experienced flight maneuvers witnessed by hundreds during the Pentagon crash on 9-11--or whether the reported "terrorists" were just used as "patsies" to cover up the kind of current technology which allows planes to take off from airports, land on the other side of the world, and then return back again without a pilot controlling the airplane.

The issue of failed airport security is an additional matter of government oversight which indicates that officials allowed the problem to exist in spite of multiple intelligence reports citing that "planes would be used as weapons," and as such, prosecutors would normally initiate a public criminal investigation, calling a grand jury to probe negligence at the least, regarding who was responsible for letting the attacks happen.

The following Senators will have to face voters in November, 2004 and answer for their actions in aiding and abetting the cover-up of airport security, shielding the identities of those who gave the orders to continue lax airport security in spite of dangerous intelligence reports, and failing to warn United States pilots, boarding gate personnel, flight attendents, air-traffic controlers and airline executives.

The senators voted on November 19, 2002 to hold safe and harmless foreign-owned companies operating in the U.S. -- Argenbright Securities (British), Globe Aviation Security Services (Sweden), and Huntleigh USA Corporation (Dutch).

SENATORS FACING VOTERS IN NOVEMBER WHO VOTED FOR CORPORATE IMMUNITY:

Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT), Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), Sen. Ben Nighthorse-Campbell (R-CO), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH).

Senators facing the voters in 2004 who voted to remove corporate immunity for airport security from the Homeland Security Bill were all Democrats except for Republican John McCain, who also voted to protect American citizens from failed airport security.

Corporate immunity from prosecution passed 52-47, but some senators may have to answer to voters in their respective states as to why they chose foreign corporations and suppression of evidence linked to a mass murder case over the interests of their constituents who pay their salaries, benefits, and pensions--while also honoring them with high office.

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