The Scapegoat?
But Hutchigs, who has watched countless passengers pass through the security gate in his months behind the Pier 4 counter, says he believes the security measures should have been implemented years before, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
“The time was then. It’s a little late,” Hutchigs says. “I think this could have been avoided.”
But it’s not so simple, says a former FAA security official familiar with national aviation programs.
The official says he believes the FAA has been blamed unfairly for Tuesday’s attacks—the security measures were never aimed to protect against the sort of strikes that killed and injured thousands last week. He says he does not believe there was any sort of security breach.
“Those blades were permitted. It isn’t that they weren’t detected,” he says.
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