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To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (273969)	7/12/2002 3:22:49 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

OMINOUS SIGNS OF THE POLICE STATE baldur, Don't hold your breath on Bush lifting a finger against his criminal co-conspirators. They've got their plate full with trying to keep secrets: abcnews.go.com <SNIP> U.S. Wants Information Limited in Airline Suits Print This Page Email This Page See Most Sent • Do Videotapes Show Obvious Police Brutality? • The Songwriter With a Golden Touch • Cell Phones Affect Driving -- After You Hang Up July 12 — By Gail Appleson NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors will argue in court on Friday that the government should be able to block the families of Sept. 11 victims from obtaining sensitive airline information in wrongful death suits alleging inadequate security. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein scheduled the hearing to consider the unusual request by the U.S. government to intervene in private litigation against UAL Corp's United Airlines and AMR Corp's American Airlines that was filed by plaintiffs whose relatives were killed in the attacks on America. Hijackers flew two planes into the World Trade Center, destroying the landmark twin towers. A third plane slammed into the Pentagon and a fourth plane, also believed headed for Washington, crashed in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed in the attacks. The airlines have been named in at least 10 wrongful death suits that have been consolidated before Hellerstein in Manhattan federal court. In a letter filed with the judge, officials from the Justice Department in Washington and the Manhattan U.S. attorney said they want to make sure information that poses a security risk is not disclosed to the plaintiffs during their pretrial search for information, known as discovery. "The possibility that a haphazard discovery process could result in the unauthorized release of sensitive security information creates an unacceptable risk to the traveling public and to the national security," the letter said. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""' More likely, information implicating rogue elements of our government in the plot...... <ng> -Ray