First time posting here, but I've been reading a lot. Impressed by the good writing. I was floridagal at TOS and usually wrote about education reforms that are changing the public nature of our schools into private structures with little oversight.

I have a passion about our former Governor and Senator, Bob Graham. I saw him on 60 Minutes tonight, and he was still into this topic strongly. But his time was so short and the subject so limited that I was disappointed.

He's had a passion about the disastrous Iraq War vote and our cover-ups involving the Saudi families and their secret flights after 9/11.

Two major papers here FINALLY acknowledged these flights and gave details.

From the then St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) 2004

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/09/Tampabay/TIA_now_verifies_flig.shtml

TIA now verifies flight of Saudis

TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left.

The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky.

The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane.

For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose.

But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details.

And from the Tampa Tribune on October 1st 2001

http://tinyurl.com/grcxqcw
Phantom Flight From Florida

The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Local and federal authorities will say little about the flight.

``It's not in our logs ... it didn't occur,'' said Chris White, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's regional office in Atlanta.

For private investigators Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez, the bodyguards on the Lear, it was a trip they can't forget.

A Special Situation Grossi said Tampa police intelligence detectives called him about 11 a.m. Sept. 13, needing help with a special situation: They had been watching three young Saudi men - at least one a student at the University of Tampa - at their south Tampa apartment, and the trio was scared and wanted to go home.

Bob Graham needs to keep talking, and now and then the media will let him speak...if only a short segment.

I have written more about Bob Graham's words at another new site formed recently.

http://tinyurl.com/jh3vajq
Bob Graham's had powerful words about 9/11 and the Saudis for years now

In October 2002 Bob Graham begged fellow senators to read the "entire" NIE on WMDs,not just the 25 pages that had been unclassified. There were 90 pages apparently classified that were available for them to read. He told them that invading Iraq would put our country in more danger.

"Friends, I encourage you to read the classified intelligence reports which are much sharper than what is available in declassified form," Sen. Graham reports stating on the floor of the Senate in October 2002.

"We are going to be increasing the threat level against the people of the United States." He warned: "Blood is going to be on your hands"

(BTW I couldn't get the links to format correctly though I used the link icon. So it looks a little messy, but it will get you there.)