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Blakey is leaving

Bush’s FAA chief will leave her post


What do top government officials do when they resign their posts? They become lobbyists. Thus it should come as no surprise that Marion Blakey, named by President Bush in 2002 to head the Federal Aviation Administration, will quit to become chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, a trade group that represents leading manufacturers and government contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics and Raytheon. Before she joined the FAA, Blakey was head of the National Transportation Safety Board. The White Hose has not yet settled on a replacement for Blakey at the FAA. She leaves at a time when the agency is pushing Congress to provide funding for a new generation of satellite-based air traffic control technology, which the FAA says would go a long way to easing the growing congestion in the nation’s skies.


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sylevine1@sbcglobal. Blakey Has Always Avoided Knowledge and Used Politics 1 Sep 14 2007, 3:47 PM EDT by sylevine1@sbcglobal.
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9/11, like Katrina, was the result of President Bush’s Republican political appointees that had little knowledge of their appointed critical tasks.
: When Bush became President he appointed Marion C. Blakey to the NTSB and then to the FAA. The 9/11 threat was known and yet Bush made a political appointee who had little knowledge of aviation security. In an August 9, 2002 letter to me Blakey stated, “Data collection and privacy issues must also be considered; for example, where should the data be stored and who should be authorized to look at it?” In her letter to me she does not address the critical need for this data for the security of the nation and the safety of the public in the air or on the ground. The fear of the aviation industry’s concern over the aviation industry’s fear of liability claims took precedence over our nation’s safety and security (this is the same Bush Administration that advocated and did monitor and record the telephone conversations of private citizens under the guise of national security – PAC money takes precedence). Now Blakey, wearing her aviaion pins, given to her from contractors, moves back into government lobying position. There is no end in pandering in Washington and the traveling public and the security of our nation suffer.
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