Stocks Drop on News of Plane Crash into NY High Rise, but Moderate as People Are Advised It's Not Terrorism

Not that the government actually knows anything at this time, but Americans will swallow the BS once again until the Karl Rove government decides how they can best play this to their own advantage.

Excerpt Market Watch Report:

U.S. stocks pared losses late in Wednesday's session, as investors took a benign view of news reports that a small aircraft crashed into a New York city building.
"It appears at this juncture that this was not terrorism, but rather an airplane that was in distress," said Charles Campbell, a senior sales trader at Miller Tabak.
Stock prices also were dented by the minutes of the last Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates. The notes made clear that inflation remained a serious concern for central bank officials, dashing hopes among some investors for an early cut in interest rates.

WP has a great AP article on this.

Fighter planes have scrambled over major US Cities. Are we supposed to be able to hear and see these planes, because there is nothing visible or audible around LA California. Maybe it's just expensive and important areas they're guarding. That would be pretty far from my place. We just have refineries that could take out a couple of blocks of houses around here.

Lawyer Defies Bush Administration. Must leave Navy

Why is that not a surprise? Hmmmm Mr. Rumsfeld? While our nation faces multiple threats (most worsened by the Secretary of State's decisions) he plays political payback.

Ten of Thousands Possibly Wrongly on Terror List

Excerpt AP article at Yahoo.com "Report: Thousands wrongly on terror list":

Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said Friday.

More than 30,000 airline passengers have asked just one agency — the Transportation Security Administration — to have their names cleared from the lists, according to the
Government Accountability Office report.

Hundreds of millions of people each year are screened against the lists by Customs and Border Protection, the State Department and state and local law enforcement agencies. The lists include names of people suspected of terrorism or of possibly having links to terrorist activity.

"Misidentifications can lead to delays, intensive questioning and searches, missed flights or denied entry at the border," the report said. "Whether appropriate relief is being afforded these individuals is still an open question."

When questions arose about tens of thousands of names between December 2003 and January 2006, the names were sent back to the agencies that put them on the lists, the GAO said. Half of those were found to be misidentified, the report found.