Determined Father Pursues Sept. 11 Lawsuit
While Most Families Have Renounced Legal Claims, Mike Low Wants Case to Be Finished in Court
September 5, 2009 (CBS) This story is by CBS News’ Jeff Glor and Phil Hirschkorn
Since the 9/11 attacks, almost every victims’ family has settled its wrongful death complaints, except just a few, and only one [...]
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Determined father pursues Sept. 11 lawsuit; ‘I want people to know that 9/11 could have been prevented’
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Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns
On November 19, 2002, the Federal Flight Deck Officers program was approved in the Senate, by a vote of 90 to 9, as part of H.R. 5005, “A bill to establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.” While Senators Akaka, Byrd, Feingold, Hollings, Inouye, Jeffords, Kennedy, Levin, and Sarbanes all vote against [...]
TSA: Airline pilots sane to fly; too crazy to be armed
At Pajamas Media, Annie Jacobsen writes that an Oklahoma doctor contracted by the Transportation Security Administration is disqualifying airline pilots from flying armed under the Federal Flight Deck Officer’s program.
I asked Dr. Hogan to speak about subjecting pilots — who are routinely drug-tested, by the way — to the Hogan Test. “There is a [...]
Inexperienced airport screeners becoming air marshals
Not long ago, The Aviation Nation’s Annie Jacobsen reported the Transportation Security Administration had experienced an 120% turnover in personnel in a mere five years of existence. Not all was lost, however; some of those disgruntled employees are now protecting passengers in-flight:
CNN’s Drew Griffen interviewed air marshals who said screeners with “no college, no law-enforcement [...]
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Prosecutors in U.K. air terror case show ‘martyr’ video
ABC News reports:
Allah “loves us to die and kill in his path” says a man who is accused of plotting to blow up passenger jets as part of an al Qaeda plot. The martyrdom video was shown to jurors in the United Kingdom today in the conspiracy trial of eight alleged plotters who hoped to [...]
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