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Anti Federalist
03-30-2014, 10:04 PM
NY Sen. Schumer asks feds to review WTC security

http://www.woi-tv.com/story/25113048/ny-sen-schumer-asks-feds-to-review-wtc-security

By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer stood by the World Trade Center on Sunday, demanding that federal officials review security after daredevils twice sneaked to the top of the site's signature, 104-story skyscraper.

Schumer's request comes after a teenager was charged with climbing to the top of the 1,776-foot spire of 1 World Trade Center, three skydiving enthusiasts turned themselves in to face charges in a September jump off the building, and a newspaper published a photo of a guard apparently sleeping on the job.

"What is going on here?" asked Schumer.

The New York Democrat wants the Department of Homeland Security to monitor the performance and training of trade center security guards, in addition to testing surveillance equipment and checking the perimeter for possible illegal entry points.

Schumer said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the 16-acre site, is responsible for any security breaches.

"They're the public authority in charge of this; I'm holding them responsible," Schumer said during a news conference on Sunday.

In a pair of statements Sunday, Port Authority security chief Joseph Dunne called the lapses "unacceptable" and invited Homeland Security officials to tour the site again "in light of recent security breaches."

Dunne said the Port Authority and the Durst Organization, which manages 1 World Trade Center and provides private security for the building still under construction, "have taken significant steps" to address the lapses.

David Velazquez, the assistant security director for Durst, resigned on Friday.

Dunne noted that the two reported breaches are unrelated. "Each involved different means of accessing the site," he said, without elaborating.

A "Phase 1" review of site security was submitted to DHS in November and is currently under review, Dunne said. A "Phase 2" application with measures including fences, closed-circuit television, perimeter patrol and access control is being prepared, he said.

Schumer was not satisfied.

"I do not feel we can leave it up to the Port Authority to say, 'Oh, we've corrected it, never mind,'" the senator said. "There have been too many breaches."

Schumer said he's pleased the New York Police Department is also participating in the security review and that Dunne, the PA security chief, is a former NYPD First Deputy Commissioner.

The New York Post published a photo Wednesday that showed a guard in a bright-green security vest leaning back in a chair, legs crossed and head tilted back. A Durst Organization spokesman told the paper the guard was fired immediately.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the image of the sleeping guard is an "extraordinary embarrassment."

"You'll see security levels enhanced significantly on that site," Bratton told WABC television on Sunday.

The commissioner said police were looking for possible accomplices who may have helped the parachuters enter the high-rise.

"They didn't walk up," Bratton said. "They had assistance getting in and out of there, and we're continuing our investigations as to who helped them get up there."

Weston White
03-30-2014, 10:50 PM
Well they certainly all have their work cut out for them (I chunked only the good parts):


Only days before President Obama revealed that his worst fear was a nuclear terror attack on Manhattan, a nearly blind guard was caught sleeping on the job at the Freedom Tower — where he was the building’s first line of defense.

“Sometimes I cannot recognize people, stairs,” Basher said. “That post was so hard to cover for me. It was very, very stressful. I could barely see half of the lobby.”

The shop steward for SEIU *Local 32BJ said Basher — named the union’s “Security Officer of the Year” for 2013 — was “just getting ready to go on disability.”

“The security division is so poorly managed . . . Every security guard that works for them is mentally stressed,” he said.

The Bangladeshi immigrant with some missing teeth also claimed he hadn’t been dozing. “To my knowledge, actually I was not sleeping. I was mistaken to be sleeping. I was exercising my eyes,” he insisted.

Construction workers at Ground Zero were appalled by the photo. “There’s our hardworking security right there . . . What a joke!” one said.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/26/half-blind-wtc-guard-caught-snoozing-on-the-job/

It is racist to presume Basher was sleeping, rather he can be seen here basking in the glory of being named SEUI’ 2013 Security Officer of the Year:


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/28/article-2591303-1CA17A3800000578-151_634x475.jpg

* In his defense, it is after all called the Freedom Tower, so he should be able to sleep if he wants to.

phill4paul
03-30-2014, 11:22 PM
Amdoc.

RDM
03-30-2014, 11:50 PM
I guess we could always consider putting Marvin Bush (G.W.'s brother) back in charge of security. Oops, nevermind.


Marvin Bush and the Planting of Explosives


I. Introduction: (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_01.htm)
II. Natural Skepticism (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_02.htm)
III. Reframing the Story (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_03.htm)
IV. Background and Motive (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_04.htm)
V. Historical Precedent (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_05.htm)
VI. Government Complicity and Intelligence Breakdowns (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_06.htm)
VII. WTC Building 7 (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_07.htm)
VIII. The Twin Towers (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_08.htm)
IX. Marvin Bush and the Planting of Explosives (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_09.htm)
X. Underground Explosions (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_10.htm)
XI. Evidence Destroyed (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_11.htm)
XII. Military Response (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_12.htm)
XIII. AA Flight 77 (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_13.htm)
XIV. Hani Hanjour and Flight 77's Unexplained Expert Maneuvers (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_14.htm)
XV. Video Evidence at the Pentagon (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_15.htm)
XVI. The Pentagon (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_16.htm)
XVII. Flight Manifests and Passenger Lists (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_17.htm)
XVIII. Flight 93 (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_18.htm)
XIX. Bin Laden 'Confession' Tapes (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_19.htm)
XX. Too Grand a Conspiracy? (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_20.htm)
XXI. The Media, Official Investigations, Debunkers, and other Misinformation (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_21.htm)
XXII. Conclusion (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_22.htm)
XXIII. Links (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_23.htm)
XXIV. Charlatans and Scoundrels (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_24.htm)
XXV. What can be done? (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_25.htm)
XXVI. Note about the Author (http://www.911hardfacts.com/report_26.htm)



If the hypothesis of controlled demolition is considered, there inevitably arises one serious obstacle to its plausibility. And that is the fact that thousands of pounds of explosives would have had to have been planted in and around the buildings' core columns and throughout its clearly restricted internal framework. So how, the skeptical questioning goes, did anyone planting these explosives have such ready access to such intimate parts of the building? As with so many of the essential questions raised by 9/11, what often appear at first to be strong arguments against any kind of 'conspiracy theory' that 9/11 was an inside job turn, suddenly, into stunning revelations about heretofore uncovered information that ultimately serve to confirm and strengthen the suspicions about 9/11 being, indeed, a well-orchestrated conspiracy theory.
Take, as an example, this question of how the explosives were planted. How could the security apparatus of the World Trade Center Complex, which was presumably highly sophisticated after the 1993 bombing, allow or not notice the laying of the explosives that supposedly felled the buildings? Well, upon investigating this security apparatus at the WTC, we quickly stumble into the fact that Marvin Bush, George W.'s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom (now Stratesec), the very company in charge of security at the WTC in 2001. Again, it is important to note that the author is not making this up. "Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport." (http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2003-02/articles/10292-1.html) And not to be outdone by this fact, we also learn that "from 1999 to January of 2002 (Marvin and George W.'s cousin) Wirt Walker III was the company's CEO." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories#Other_points)
That this stunning, remarkable fact is not front-page news in every newspaper in the country is a mystery I cannot answer, nor solve. That there were well documented power outages and swaths of whole floor shutdowns and evacuations in the weeks leading up to 9/11, perfect opportunities to carry up and plant necessary explosives under the guise of 'maintenance' and/or 'retrofitting' work, only fuels well-placed suspicions. In a People magazine article, Ben Fountain, 42, a financial analyst with Fireman's Fund who worked on the 47th floor of the South Tower, confirmed these evacuations by saying, "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on." (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/people.html)

HOLLYWOOD
03-31-2014, 12:01 AM
Code For: Cha-Ching... we want more federal grants and fork it over clueless taxpayers.

What Chuck 'The Con Artist' Schumer forgets to tell everyone, f the 3 daredevils gained access because one of them has, or had, full access to the building. Brady already worked there on construction and gad been to the top.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMD3TN2n5uw#t=80