FAA Warned About Hijacking Pre-9/11 Story aired: Thursday, February 10, 2005
Reports discussing airline hijackings and suicide operations -- some of them specifically mentioning Osama bin Laden -- were available to federal aviation officials in the months leading up to September 11th.
According to a newly declassified document from the 9/11 Commission, the FAA failed to take adequate domestic security measures, including a shoring up of airline screening procedures for weapons or upping the number of air marshals on flights.
Guests:
Eric Lichtblau, who writes about the newly disclosed report in Thursday's New York Times.
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