This is a crime

[still_one]

This was reported after the 9/11 attacks very briefly, and no one dared follow through. Now it is coming out again:


Six air traffic controllers provided accounts of their communications with hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, on a tape recording that was later destroyed by Federal Aviation Administration managers, according to a government investigative report issued today.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6632-2004May6?language=printer

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Chopped up into pieces and discarded into different trashcans

around the building, IIRC. (source: NY Times)

[Fleshdancer]

2. Is there anyway to find out WHO this person is?????

From the article:

Hours after the hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, an FAA manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center gathered six controllers

who communicated or tracked two of the hijacked planes and recorded in a one-hour interview their personal accounts of what occurred, the report stated.

The manager, who is not named in the report, said that his intentions were to provide quick information to federal officials investigating the attack before the air traffic controllers involved took sick leave for the stress of their experiences, as is common practice.

According to the report, a second manager at the New York center promised a union official representing the controllers that he would "get rid of" the tape after controllers used it to provide written statements to federal officials about the events of the day.

Instead, the second manager said he destroyed the tape between December 2001 and January 2002 by crushing the tape with his hand, cutting it into small pieces and depositing the pieces into trash cans around the building, the report said.

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Who is this second manager???!!!!????

[leveymg]

3. File this with the rest of the suppressed evidence of official wrong-doing

It'll all come out, eventually.:eyes:

[knowbody0]

4. and why

[dmr]

6. Yup, I remember this

If they had their way, we would never even know those 6 controllers met.

My blood pressure goes up over shit like this.

What a blindly controlled society we live in when information like this isn't investigated and even, at least discussed amongst the general public.

[FearofFutility]

5. Read Crossing the Rubicon

You will read about that and much, much more. I'm almost finished with the book and feel that I need to find a support group. It's almost too much to take. :scared:

[dmr]

7. I just ordered it

Thanks for the heads up, FearofFutility

[RBHam]

8. Tape of Air Traffic Controllers Made on 9/11 Was Destroyed

by Matthew L. Wald
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0507-10.htm
excerpt:
A quality-assurance manager at the center destroyed the tape several months after it was made, crushing the cassette in his hand, cutting the tape into little pieces and dropping them in different trash cans around the building, according to the report. 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, the report said.

The quality-assurance manager told investigators that he had destroyed the tape because he thought making it was contrary to Federal Aviation Administration policy, which calls for written statements, and because he felt that the controllers "were not in the correct frame of mind to have properly consented to the taping" because of the stress of the day.

None of the officials or controllers were identified in the report.

[dogday]

9. Uncover one lie or deception and the whole web begins to

fall apart.

[Protagoras]

10. and the band played on...

this seems so overt...so obvious...so totally odd and bizarre...and yet hardly a peep.

Brings to mind a number of quotes from WW2 about the size of lies.