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Funk’s Response to President Obama’s Speech & Airline Security
For Immediate Release:
Dave Funk, Candidate for Congress; Iowa-03 Responds to President Obama’s press conference on the failure of the Aviation Security system involving Northwest Flight 253.
It’s great for Barack Obama to channel Harry Truman with the line, “The buck stops here.” But he’s going to have to do a lot more than quote Harry [...]
Finally Fixing our Airline Security System
By Dave Funk
As we all know, this past Christmas day there was a terrorist attack that failed on Northwest Flight 253 bound for Detroit. Again, our Nation has had its eyes opened as American lives were nearly taken mid-air. Even during the pre-9/11 era, these risks were high and we tried to fix the [...]
The Clueless Always Are…
The attack on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day really hit home for me. Not only is it the airline that I worked for as a pilot for twenty years, but because it also shows us that The Clueless Always Are.
As an airline Captain and aviation security consultant with a lifetime [...]