I usually veer from politics



...but it's becoming clear to me that I do NOT trust either of our major contenders for president. Sure, the article is a little overdramatic (it is the New York Post, after all), but, if true, it shows Kerry is a lying, boastful, ineffective leader. In short, a perfect replacement for what we already have. Yay.





THE WARNING KERRY IGNORED

by PAUL SPERRY

------------------------------------------------------------------------

March 15, 2004 -- SEN. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.



[...]Rewind to May 6, 2001. That night, a Boston TV station (Fox-25) aired reporter Deborah Sherman's story on an undercover investigation at Logan that Sullivan and another retired agent helped set up. In nine of 10 tries, a crew got knives and other weapons through security checkpoints - including the very ones the 9/11 hijackers would later exploit.



The next day, Sullivan fired off a two-page letter to Kerry highlighting the systemic failures.



"With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers?" he warned. "Think what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely." The toll from such an attack would be economic, as well as human, he predicted with chilling accuracy.



Sullivan followed up by having the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry's office.



New York Post Online | The Warning That Kerry Ignored