It is so blatant and outrageous it makes you sick, and yet the promotion of the mythical lie persists:
"No checks for bombs in certified air cargo; Antiterror law's intent debated" by Charlie Savage/Boston Globe August 24, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is planning to allow cargo packed by approved shippers to be loaded onto passenger airplanes without any further inspection for bombs, despite a new law requiring freight shipments to receive the same level of scrutiny as checked suitcases.
[Terrorism is the greatest threat ever, but not great enough to obey the law, etc.]
Earlier this month, President Bush signed a bill into law that requires some type of inspection of all freight carried on passenger planes. The airline industry had fought such a requirement, contending that it would be too slow and costly. When Republicans controlled Congress, the industry succeeded in getting the legislation blocked. But in late July, Democrats passed the measure.
The new law was celebrated as a victory by pilot and flight attendant unions, as well as its main congressional champion, Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Malden. Markey put a video of a triumphant House floor speech on his website, proclaiming "After four years, Representative Markey wins his fight to ensure 100 per cent screening of cargo on passenger planes."
But the Transportation Security Administration, which was given three years under the law to develop a full inspection program, says it is interpreting the statute to allow boxes sealed by government-certified shippers to be loaded directly on planes. TSA spokesman Christopher White said freight "is inherently screened" if it is packed with tamper-evident seals at a facility that meets federal security standards.
Airline unions and air-safety advocates said they expected that under the new law freight would be either X-rayed or inspected by hand, just like bags checked by passengers. They said the Bush administration's decision to implement the new law with a "certified shippers" program is only a slight improvement over the current system, which allows cargo from "known shippers" to be loaded directly onto passenger planes. The only difference is that "known shippers" merely register with the TSA and do not have to meet security standards.
[Here's a question, reader:
Why would "Al-CIA-Duh" go to such extremes as hijacking airliners when they could have got a job at the FedEx and placed a package bomb on the planes?]
The passenger airline industry had stoutly resisted any such requirement, saying it would cause delays that could jeopardize $4.3 billion per year in cargo business for air carriers.
[Money is more important than life, see?]
The Bush administration had been unwilling to impose such a regulation on its own.
Jim May, president of the Air Transport Association:
"If you have 100 percent physical inspection of cargo, you are basically going to shut that part of the economy down."
[So it's better to have a jet blow up.
Can't stop that HOLY COMMERCE.
Proves what a bunch of shit this war on terror really is.]
White, the TSA spokesman, said the agency believes the law will be satisfied merely if cargo comes from a "certified" facility, one that meets certain security standards.
[And they could always have their informants inside the company to carry out a false-flag attack, too!]
The Air Transport Association, a lobbying group for the airline industry, declined to comment on the new screening law. Instead, it pointed a reporter to a little-noticed statement put out by its president when Congress passed the bill. At the time, May praised the law though he had previously spent years saying Markey's proposal would bring disaster.
[Talking and lying out of both sides of the mouth again, I see]
Markey said: "If the Bush administration tries to bend the law, it is going to discover that there is a new sheriff in town."
[Yeah, right! Whatcha gonna do, Markey? Write 'em a letter? Pffffftttt!]
