Saturday, November 25, 2006

Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11

Have you noticed that USA Today has gotten edgier in their story choices? We certainly have. They're pushing some type of envelope...you go, USA-T!
You certainly couldn't call USA-T "conspiracy theory" nuts....but here they go again, publishing interesting stuff on 9-11:
USA-T ....From 1995 to 2001, Bogdan Dzakovic served as a team leader on the Federal Aviation Administration's Red Team. Set up by Congress to help the FAA think like terrorists, the elite squad tested airport security systems....Then came 9/11.
"Immediately (after 9/11), numerous government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to happen?' " Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. "The truth is, they did know."

About a month after 9/11, he filed a complaint with the Office of the Special Counsel, the government agency that investigates whistle-blower cases. It alleged that the FAA had covered up Red Team findings. A subsequent Department of Transportation Inspector General's report, ordered by the OSC in response to Dzakovic's complaint, concluded that the "Red Team program was grossly mismanaged and that the result was a serious compromise of public safety."