PROPAGANDA CENTRAL

Poor judgment cited in destruction of 9/11 FAA tape

"What those six [air-traffic] controllers recounted in a group setting on September 11, in their own voices, about what transpired that morning, are no longer available to assist any investigation or inform the public" -- Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead.

Air controllers who communicated with or tracked hijacked jets on Sept. 11, 2001, taped their recollections later that day but the recording was destroyed without anyone ever listening to it, a U.S. investigator said on Thursday.
Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead found irregularities in how two Federal Aviation Administration managers at the main air traffic center on New York's Long Island handled the tape and concluded they used poor judgment.
The tape dealt specifically with the two aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center towers.
Mead also found the two managers misconstrued a directive from FAA headquarters to save all data and records pertaining to the Sept. 11 event.

[The directive to save all data and records pertaining to the Sept. 11 event was misconstrued thus: One of the men, a quality assurance manager, destroyed the tape by crushing the audiocassette in his hand, then cutting the recording tape into small pieces. He then threw the debris into different trash cans at the center, Mead said.]