Former FAA Counter-Terror Expert Refuses to See United 93

[Canuckistanian]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-katovsky/former-faa-counterterror_b_21004.html

Bogdan Dzakovic's job was to think and act like a terrorist. Before 9/11, he was in charge of the Red Team, the Federal Aviation Administration's elite counter-terror squad which investigated aviation security. His small, highly trained team conducted mock undercover raids as terrorists and hijackers. It probed airport security capabilities. With alarming ease and frequency, team members slipped bombs, guns, and knives onto aircraft during routine testing.

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"We were extraordinarily successful in killing large numbers of innocent people in these simulated attacks," Dzakovic had told the 9/11 Commission on May 22, 2003. "We breached security up to 90 percent of the time. The FAA suppressed these warnings. Instead, we were ordered not to write up our reports and not to retest airports where we found particularly egregious vulnerabilities, to see if the problems had been fixed. Finally, the agency started providing advance notification of when we would be conducting our 'undercover' tests and what we would be 'checking.'"

Several days after 9/11, the FAA grounded the Red Team. "The FAA knew that the information we had within the Red Team was very damning to them," Dzakovic told me. "The last thing they wanted to do was have us continue flying after 9/11, and continue doing work documenting that security is still as screwed up as it was before 9/11."

A little something for my 10,000th post.
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[burythehatchet]

1. he and I have somthing in common.

[fujiyama]

4. It looks like he and

most Americans are with you on this considering it has only made some 25 million dollars so far.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Smart man & He is describing AT LEAST LIHOP!!!!!

[Canuckistanian]

3. That and pure incompetence

Not to mention yet another cover-up.

Yep, things sure changed after 9/11, that's fer sure.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Shameless kick

I've got no pride.

[montana_hazeleyes]

6. Good find AND.....................

Congrats on your 10,000 post!:party: :bounce: :thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

7. Thank you!

I'd like to thank all the little people who... er...ah... never mind.
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