The report took five months to release because of "classification issues," the White House said, including deletion of references to any existing security measures. "Civil aviation seems to have been lulled into a false sense of security," the commission wrote, a lapse particularly surprising given the FAA's own intelligence assessment about growing terrorist threats.
things you have to appreciate today include a report that was specifically delayed until well after the election in order to cover up the facts of the complicity of the administration in the events of 9/11. The FAA knew something could happen, and were warned it would happen, but were cowed into rejecting any substantive security measures for "reasons" known only to Rove, Rice, Cheney and bushsheet.
Another touching moment today is the coincidence of the amerikan bar association report indicating at no less than 800 years of time is being spent in prisons in the US by persons wrongfully convicted of crimes through poor legal representation. This is a seriously low figure and represents may 50% of the actual mistakes. In a nation that criminalizes so much behavior and punishes more per capita than any other nation except china, one would think we have a powerful and wonderful criminal justice system. WEll, the US Senate voted today to move all class action suits to federal courts where they will be rejected by the 60% of the judiciary appointed by repugnicans beginning with nixon. So not only will the hideous criminals at Grace and Company never stand trial for second degree murder in their knowingly toxifying the US w/ asbestos, but the victims will no longer be able to sue them for their wrongful deaths. Yes justice in the USA is blind, to the rich and powerful, and intentionally abusive to the rest of us.