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FAA continues cover-up crackdown

by Jon Surmacz

The Federal Aviation Administration announced yesterday that the top-two managers of an air traffic control facility in Dallas-Fort Worth had been removed from their jobs. According to an Associated Press report, investigators found they routinely and intentionally misclassified instances where planes were allowed to fly closer than they were supposed to. “We’re not going to stand for this,” acting FAA administrator Bobby Sturgell told a news conference. According to the report, the Transportation’s inspector general found that between November 2005 and July 2007, FAA managers at the Dallas-Fort Worth facility misclassified 62 air traffic events as pilot deviations or nonevents when in fact there were 52 operational errors and 10 operational deviations by FAA controllers.

Published on April 25, 2008 ·
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  1. On April 27th, 2008 at 6:51 pm John J. Tormey III, Esq. said

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    Honorable United States Senator Arlen Specter (PA) The United States Senate, The United States Capitol
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    Re: Yesterday’s FAA Airspace Redesign Field Hearing In Philadelphia, PA

    Quiet Rockland Requests You Withdraw All Support For “Bobby” Sturgell’s Confirmation

    Dear Honorable Senator Specter:

    I very much enjoyed speaking with you yesterday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Thank you for chairing that field hearing (“Hearing”) of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Thank you also for your hospitality, and that of your staff and the good people of Philadelphia.

    Would-be FAA Head “Bobby” Sturgell’s evasive non-answers to you yesterday, were an outrage.

    You performed a heroic tenacious job of cross-examining possibly the most evasive and squirmy witness I have ever seen or heard – that non-witness being one Robert Allan “Bobby” Sturgell himself. You had the courage to chastise a fellow Republican, Sturgell, for the salient fact also obvious to everyone in the room. You asked Mr. Sturgell essentially the same question seven (7) consecutive times calling for a simple “Yes” or “No” answer. This FAA Acting Administrator just flat-out refused to give you, or any of us American people, a clear answer on each of those consecutive seven (7) occasions. Moreover, Sturgell smirked and laughed nervously as he (thought he) evaded you time-after-time - like a DelMarVa teenager thinking he was getting over on a law enforcement officer on a Spring Break traffic stop. I saw it, Senator. Up close. In person. I watched the whole spectacle in disgust.

    “Bobby” Sturgell’s contemptuous behavior in your chaired off-site Senate proceeding, aside from being deceitful and unlawful, was an insult to you, an insult to those of us present, an insult to all your constituent Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians, an insult to the Constitution, and an insult to this country. As you too saw, on the hallowed walls of the National Constitution Center was a clear inscribed writing on which Sturgell’s gaze must have been fixed as he lamely shuffled out of the building with his poster-boards and enablers in tow, reading: “The PEOPLE THEMSELVES [emphasis added] must be the ultimate means of their own Constitution. Theodore Roosevelt, 1912”.

    Senator Specter, the people themselves have spoken, once again, now almost 100 years after President Roosevelt uttered those words. The people say that “Bobby” Sturgell must be lawfully removed from office now and immediately.

    Please do not stand for, and do not tolerate, “Bobby” Sturgell’s insult to you, to your party, to your Pennsylvania constituents, and to this country.

    Please make an on-record public statement withdrawing any previously-stated support you may have indicated for “Bobby” Sturgell’s confirmation as FAA Administrator. Sturgell lied to Senators Boxer, Lautenberg, McCaskill and the full Commerce Committee on February 8, 2008. He also lied to you in the writing that you called him on during his yesterday testimony. Sturgell’s dishonesty knows no party, and no bounds – he will lie to members of either political party and to anyone else, in an endeavor to cover-up the defects of his FAA regime and to try to save his ever-shedding political skin. Yet under Sturgell’s failed FAA, the cracks in the Southwest Airlines airplanes in which his “leadership” let innocent unsuspecting passengers fly, and the fissures in his failed administration generally, are now as notable to all of us Americans as the very crack in the Liberty Bell itself, located just steps from the National Constitution Center. Our country’s resolve shall never break, and shall most certainly not crack simply from the malfeasance of a dishonest rogue federal agency and ersatz appointee official within. We the people would simply select somebody else. We need you to make that happen for us.

    Headed home yesterday shaking my head in disbelief after the Hearing, I walked by the site at which Thomas Jefferson is said to have penned the Declaration of Independence. Another day in beautiful, historic, and inspiring Philadelphia. Senator Specter, if Thomas Jefferson were still alive he would have found a way to fire “Bobby” Sturgell already. Jefferson too knew that a little revolution once in a while can be a good thing. We ask you to do everything in your power to send Sturgell out the revolution of that revolving door at 800 Independence Avenue, SW.

    Quiet Rockland again calls for the removal of “Bobby” Sturgell even as Acting Administrator of the FAA. Sturgell is disingenuous, unfit to lead, and must be replaced immediately by a competent federal official who can handle the delicate balance of aviation safety, candor, and the Constitutional rights of American citizens.

    Respectfully submitted, to your health and your good offices, with prayer,

    John J. Tormey III, Esq.
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