The Bush-Clinton Administrations Had Enough Information
Before 9/11 to Prevent Aircraft from Becoming Missiles
Washington, DC:
Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader today urged
the 9/11 Commission to highlight the failure of the Bush and
Clinton Administrations to take action to re-enforce the
doors of aircraft cockpits noting: "This single safety step
could have thwarted the events of September 11."
On April 8, when Condolezza Rice testified before the
Commission Investigating September 11, she acknowledged that
hardening the cockpits could have made a difference: "That
would have made a difference. We weren't going to harden
cockpits in the three months that we had a threat spike."
In fact, the US government had more than enough information
prior to the information generated in the months prior to
9/11 to have taken action to re-enforce cockpit doors to
thwart hijackers and terrorists. In addition to official
intelligence scenarios about the potential for hijacked
planes being used in terrorist attacks in the US against
buildings, there have been 167 hijackings involving US
airlines and 11 hijackings involving foreign airlines on US
soil since 1970.
"It has been evident for decades that we needed to harden
cockpit doors and strengthen their latches. Some foreign
airlines have installed just that safeguard. The failure of
the federal government for years to address this despite
clear evidence of the need is a tribute to how our
government has deregulated mechanisms for national
security. The resistance by airlines and aircraft
manufacturers sent the soporific FAA into inaction, despite
long time requests for action by safety groups and aviation
security experts. If our government, sometime over the last
30 years, had been responsive, this single act would have
made it much more difficult for the terrorism of 9/11 to
have succeeded in turning aircrafts into missiles." said
Ralph Nader. "The 9/11 Commission, before its final report,
needs to research this situation and come to a judgment
about the reasons for failing to protect airline passengers
and persons on the ground."
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