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bdschobel Sep 10, 2008 4:55 pm

Skeletor is a broken record....
 
Chertoff never gets tired of saying the same tired things:

September 10, 2008
Chertoff: Aviation still vulnerable to terror
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:38 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top domestic security official said Wednesday aviation remains vulnerable to terrorist attack seven years after 9/11.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the al-Qaida terrorist network continues to focus on the aviation system as a target. He said that the Bush administration has made strides in reducing the nation's vulnerability but that the risk remains.

Chertoff was speaking at the National Press Club. Thursday is the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, in which terrorists crashed hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president thinks about 9/11 every day and is always concerned about another attack.

''The terrorists are very determined, and they have to be right only once, and we have to be right every single time,'' she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/wash...Terrorism.html

n4zhg Sep 10, 2008 5:07 pm

Gotta keep the fear level up in the minds of the couch potatoes.

Global_Hi_Flyer Sep 10, 2008 5:18 pm

Election coming. Gotta keep it in the family & try to boost boss-man's legacy.

n4zhg Sep 10, 2008 5:24 pm


Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer (Post 10347456)
Election coming. Gotta keep it in the family & try to boost boss-man's legacy.

True. Skeletor is the past master of putting lipstick on a pig.

Problem is, it's still a pig.

Spiff Sep 10, 2008 5:26 pm

Skeletor is a piece of human garbage who will hopefully never work in government again after Jan 2009.

ArizonaGuy Sep 10, 2008 5:29 pm


Originally Posted by Spiff (Post 10347499)
Skeletor is a piece of human garbage who will hopefully never work in government again after Jan 2009.

Great. As long as he doesn't go to work in upper echelons of any airline.

bdschobel Sep 10, 2008 5:33 pm

Ya think? :(

Bruce

24.05.2004 Sep 11, 2008 5:38 am

Nah...
 

Originally Posted by ArizonaGuy (Post 10347508)
Great. As long as he doesn't go to work in upper echelons of any airline.

He'll become some form of "Security Expert" dragged out by the "news" media each and every time there is a "breach of security" at an airport. For his "expertise" he will be paid decent 6-figure income.

Sigh.

Did anyone think we would be here seven years after? :confused:

n4zhg Sep 11, 2008 5:57 am


Originally Posted by 24.05.2004 (Post 10349584)
Did anyone think we would be here seven years after? :confused:

Actually, my belief was that it would be much worse by this time.

Then again, 1984 was only about thirty years off.

purpleskiesfly Sep 11, 2008 7:26 am


Originally Posted by bdschobel (Post 10347354)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top domestic security official said Wednesday aviation remains vulnerable to terrorist attack seven years after 9/11.

So, he's not done the job he was tasked to do. I'm sure he's got his golden parachute when he leaves (yes I know he's a gov't employee and they don't get golden parachutes but pretty sure he's got a security job lined up in the private sector somewhere)

CXYYZ Sep 11, 2008 11:37 am


Originally Posted by 24.05.2004 (Post 10349584)
Did anyone think we would be here seven years after? :confused:

I remember them telling us that if we changed how we live, we'd let the terrorists win. By that definition, we seem to have let them win. :(

Superguy Sep 11, 2008 11:58 am


Originally Posted by purpleskiesfly (Post 10349960)
So, he's not done the job he was tasked to do.

My thought's exactly. I wonder why no one asks him why he's not taking responsibility for the failure? After all, it is HIS fault (and his underling Kippie) for not securing aviation security.

mikeef Sep 11, 2008 12:05 pm


Originally Posted by n4zhg (Post 10347488)
True. Skeletor is the past master of putting lipstick on a pig.

Problem is, it's still a pig.

Wow, that's so sexist! ;)

I wonder if he made the speech because he had another gut feeling.

Mike

PTravel Sep 11, 2008 12:37 pm


Originally Posted by bdschobel (Post 10347354)
Chertoff never gets tired of saying the same tired things:

September 10, 2008
Chertoff: Aviation still vulnerable to terror
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:38 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top domestic security official said Wednesday aviation remains vulnerable to terrorist attack seven years after 9/11.

And he's absolutely right.

The billions spent on TSA have done nothing to make aviation more secure -- it's the world's most expensive dog-and-pony show.

thezipper Sep 11, 2008 1:51 pm

Cold War is over... have to find something else for those nameless faceless weapons / security firms to make their $$$ ... bada bing GWOT!


Originally Posted by PTravel (Post 10353024)
And he's absolutely right.

The billions spent on TSA have done nothing to make aviation more secure -- it's the world's most expensive dog-and-pony show.



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