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...final report on airport security and headed toward the FAA administrator's office. I wasn't looking forward to this meeting. The FAA didn't like me, and had never liked my reports, and if I had missed that message, a fresh signal had just been sent. Secretary Pena had been scheduled to come to this meeting. But then his office must have discovered that the latest airport report was not substantially different from the 1993 study. So he bowed out. The message seemed clear. The Secretary was seeking Washington's best protection--deniability. Pena didn't want to know...
...wrote my letter of resignation but because of the long holiday weekend, I could not find anyone at the White House to take the letter until July 8. A week later, the House Subcommittee on Aviation asked me to explain why I was leaving my job. Transportation Secretary Pena and administrator Hinson were there too, and they seemed determined to distance themselves from any responsibility for the problems at the FAA that I complained about. The Inspector General had never warned him about ValuJet, Pena told the Senators. He had no knowledge, he insisted, of how deep the crisis...
...request of her close personal friend, a ValuJet lobbyist, asked me what I was doing snooping into ValuJet. I told the Senators that in response to this unusual request, I'd written a stern memo outlining what the FAA and my office were doing about ValuJet. Did Pena expect us to believe he had no idea what his chief of staff did every day in the office suite they shared...
...catch a fugitive leader of the Basque terrorist group ETA? Have someone lead you to him. At least that appears to be how French police, working with the Spanish Civil Guard, captured Francisco Javier Lopez Pena and three other alleged members of the separatist terror organization on May 20. According to reports in the Spanish media (which the Interior Ministry will neither confirm nor deny), police followed Jose Antonio Barandiaran, former mayor of the Basque town of Andoain, to a meeting he held with Lopez in France on May 18th. Two days later, gendarmes burst into a Bordeaux apartment...
...arrests are significant. Lopez Pena, who went by the alias 'Thierry,' was "the person with most political and military weight in the group," said Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba at a press conference on Wednesday. As a leader of the political wing of ETA, Lopez is believed to have ordered recent attacks, such as the May 14 car bomb that killed a member of the Guardia Civil. He was one of the negotiators at 2006 peace talks between ETA and the Spanish government, though his rigid stance may have contributed to their failure; he has also been cited...