9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally

While the Chimperator and the GOP make pronouncements that they have made Americans safer, it now appears like so many other things that they do, it's all talk and no action. American citizens are now spied upon domestically and have vastly reduced privacy and are subject to arrest at the Chimperator's whim, yet the same problems that allowed the 9/11 attack to occur still go on today as shown in this new ABC News article (http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=4353991). In short, we have given up freedoms and legal protections for nothing. If anything, Bush/Cheney have made the country much less secure and have vastly inflamed Islamic hatred towards the USA. Here are some story highlights:

Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News. "Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11 tragedy to happen in the first place are still very much in existence today," wrote one regional security official to his boss at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

Under the new laws, American flight schools are only supposed to provide pilot training to foreign students who have been given a background check by the TSA and have a specific type of visa. But in thousands of cases that has not happened, according to the documents and current and former government officials involved in the program. "TSA's enforcement is basically nonexistent," said former FAA inspector Bill McNease, in an interview for ABC News' "World News With Charles Gibson."

No one from the TSA or Homeland Security would agree to be interviewed for this story, but officials said they were preparing an official statement in response. The Department of Homeland Security would not provide an official from the flight school program to be interviewed for this story. In a statement, the DHS said, "We have a high degree of confidence that our layered security measures, both seen and unseen, have raised the level of security in our aviation sector." The statement did not address the issue of the thousands of students who have received pilot training and licenses with improper visas,