 September 13, 2004
- In light of John Kerry spouting off about
how he would have handled the minutes after the Twin Tower attacks
differently than President George Bush, I think its time to look at just how
ineffective Kerry truly is when it comes to fighting terror. It’s too bad
there wasn’t a 9/11 commission set up to investigate Kerry’s actions before
the travesty of New York. I would contest that the wrong people have been
investigated for failure to prevent the largest act of terror on our soil
–to date!
What most people don’t know is that John Kerry was in a position to prevent
the terrorists from boarding their flights at Logan airport. He had
information that President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and
Secretary of State Colin Powell did not have access to, in the form of a
letter from Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent with the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA), whose specialty was risk-management charged
with securing air traffic control facilities throughout New England.
Four months prior to 9/11, Mr. Sullivan expressed to John Kerry his
contention that Logan Airport was very vulnerable to terrorists. He thought
that any terrorist could board and blow up a plane without much difficulty.
He believed this because undercover operatives had proven that the security
shields at Logan were ineffective by breaching them with potentially deadly
weapons 10 times. He even suggested that more than one plane could be taken
down in a day.
In addition to the letter from Sullivan, John Kerry was given a videotape
depicting the broken security shields by Bogdan Dzakov, a former FAA chief
of the national airport security covert Red Team.
It wasn’t until 11 weeks after receiving this vital information that Kerry
forwarded his response to Brian Sullivan, on July 24, 2001. He told Mr.
Sullivan that he passed the information on to the Department of
Transportation, even though he’d been told that would be fruitless since
they had already proven not willing to take corrective action after
countless warnings. [1] He didn’t bother with sending the letter and tape to
the State Police or the Massachusetts Port Authority and failed to find it
important enough to alert his Senate colleagues or the President of the
United States.
When it was realized that Mr. Sullivan’s efforts were
going nowhere, Mr. Steve Elson, another sting agent, ex-Navy Seal, and
former Red Team member, "offered to fly to Washington at his own expense to
give Kerry a document-backed presentation about the "facade of security" at
Logan and other major airports.” [2]
Because he wasn’t a constituent, he wasn’t given any
consideration either. Elson advised Kerry that he was risking the lives of
his Massachusetts constituents by allowing them to board planes at Logan. It
turned out to be true. Many of the deaths that resulted from 9/11 were the
result of boarding American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight
175 at Logan airport.
Had Kerry given the letter or the videotape the attention
they deserved, the enhanced security resulting from action taken would have
served to prevent the hijackings or at the very least discouraged ringleader
Mohamed Atta, "who monitored security procedures at Logan weeks before the
hijackings.” [3]
His inexcusable failure did not stop Kerry from trying to
take credit for triggering an undercover probe of Logan security in June
2001. His campaign ad in the fall of 2003 stated that he "sounded the alarm
on terrorism prior to 9/11”, citing his book The New War, despite his having
dropped the ball. The truth of the matter is that no investigation was ever
conducted at Logan and there’s no evidence that he ever requested anything
specific from the GAO about Logan. This alleged probe, which Kerry never
followed up on, was never acknowledged by the General Accounting Office who,
incidentally, did test airport security at two airports pre-9/11 -neither of
which happened to be Logan.
John Kerry has proven his inability to fight the war on
terror. Given an opportunity to help prevent what occurred on that fateful
day three years ago on 9/11, he proved that he is not proactive and is
unable to formulate a plan of action given crucial information that could
affect the lives of countless Americans. On the other hand, President George
Bush has picked up the ball and is still running with it. The choice is
clear!
[1] Kerry & Company’s Homeland Insecurity
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/27/101900.shtml
[2, 3] THE WARNING KERRY IGNORED
http://members.aol.com/viperash50/kerry911/911.html
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