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December 07, 2005

A Forgotten Post-9/11 Hoax

The great James Bovard tells today of "A Forgotten Post-9/11 Hoax." It was indeed forgotten by me, if I ever knew about it in the first place. Basically it goes like this: To show the public that it was safe to fly after 9/11, a bunch of Bush's Cabinet members took commercial flights one day. They claimed they were flying without any special security. As it turns out, not only were there undercover air marshals on the Cabinet members' flights, but those marshals had been reassigned from flights where the FAA's security director thought they were needed more. (He was fired for refusing to reassign them.)

There's lots more good stuff in here beyond that story as well, including all the pronouncements about how well the FAA was doing despite its massive failure on 9/11.

(Thanks to Antiwar.com for the link.)

For daring to apply the same logic to the sainted Bush as he did to the hated Clintons, Bovard has been labeled a "libertarian looney" by the Freepers, to whom any criticism of Bush is tantamount to treason.

Posted by Mike Tennant at December 7, 2005 02:41 PM

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