Homeland Security to Limit Liability Suits

[rainbow4321]

Ok...so is the translation here "shrub is planning to allow another attack but we need to protect the anti-terror companies so the victims and their families can't sue them afterwards"???

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOMELAND_SECURITY_LIABILITY?SITE=TXDAM&TEMPLATE=NATIONALSECURITY.html&SECTION=HOME

The Homeland Security Department is seeking to shield more antiterror research companies from product liability lawsuits, Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday.

Chertoff, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said the department has "not fully succeeded in exploiting" legislation that limits the extent companies can be sued for problematic products.

"I have a great deal of respect and understanding of the importance of our legal system," said Chertoff, a former federal prosecutor and appeals court judge. "But I also know how important it is that the legal system not create unduly high and burdensome transaction costs that do not allow us to make the kinds of rational decisions we have to make in order to protect ourselves."

Until recently, Homeland Security had been reluctant to limit product liability for many research and development companies that manufacture antiterror technology, said Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andrew Howell.

[stillcool]

1. Thats an interesting thought...

Did the families of 9/11 victims sign a clause when they received compensation excluding the government from all further inquiries or suits for damage?

[elehhhhna]

2. HEll yes they did.

[rainbow4321]

3. I was just wondering cuz..

think of all the companies who seem to get these kind of contracters..they are all part of the shrub regime web-of-$upporters. What better way to promise these contractors/companies/CEO's that they will not only get paid millions of $$ w/ a federal contract and yet when the next attack that shrub allows actually happens, shrub has set up a deal to protect them from lawsuits, etc...so it remains a win-win situation for these companies and the CEO's who are chimp's buddie$.

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[stillcool]

4. Plus those shorted-stocks that day....

and the airline bail-out. Its so perverse, but, i think the reality is that 9/11 is an enlarged view of how the game is played, and who the players are. I recently read a book by Phillip Agee about the CIA, that he wrote in like the early 70's, and it appears as though nothing has changed, but with the oil crisis on the horizon the stakes are that much higher.