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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (128788)	4/9/2004 8:17:46 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

Bush and Rice should have hardened the cockpit doors of all the planes that fly in US airspace? Why didn't Clinton do that? For the same reason that Bush Sr. didn't do it. For the same reason that Reagan didn't and for the same reason Carter didn't. In the absence of an event such a mechanism is the lowest level of nit noise one could bring to the President's desk. The FAA had been told for decades about the potential for an airplane used as a weapon and their response was consistent...We are not going to worry about it until it happens. You could throw in another question. Under Executive Order JFK authorized pilots to carry weapons as an anti-hijacking mechanism. It was re-authorized under every subsequent Administration until Bush Jr. Why did he rescind it? Or how about...The Reagan Administration, the Bush Sr. Administration and the Clinton Administration all had a policy to acquire weapons grade material from the Soviet Union [Russia] because the material was not adequately protected and/or there was a concern that such material would be sold to terrorists. Bush Jr. has stopped that policy. Why? jttmab