2/10/2005 06:44:00 AM|||Joe|||"We had a lot of information about threats," said the spokeswoman, Laura J. Brown. "But we didn't have specific information about means or methods that would have enabled us to tailor any countermeasures."
She added: "After 9/11, the F.A.A. and the entire aviation community took bold steps to improve aviation security, such as fortifying cockpit doors on 6,000 airplanes, and those steps took hundreds of millions of dollars to implement."
Read that again.
Not only did they basically say: Look, we didn't get minute details on the impending attacks, so whadda ya want?; but then they say: Hey, after the attacks we totally spent craploads of money for thicker doors, so shut up.
And wait a minute: Bold steps? How about necessary? How is it bold? Bold would have been spending that money before 9/11. Why? Because the public would have been against it, thinking it paranoid. Bold would have been putting more air marshals on flights before 9/11, also probably against public opinion. That would have been bold. After 9/11, it was not bold - it was painfully obvious.
It's always the same crap, isn't it?|||110804734504901900|||Bold Steps...?