Plot to Kill Nixon - Hijacked Airliner into White House

[RamboLiberal]

Interesting - Program on The History Channel Thursday 8PM for 90 Minutes. From TV Guide Website:

Recalling the story of Samuel Byck, a one-time tire salesman who planned to assassinate former president Nixon in 1974 by commandeering an airliner and crashing it into the White House. Included: an audio recording made by Byck detailing his plot.

I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people.. would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
-- Condoleezza Rice

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Condi was lying or incompetent

and yet they want to promote her to SoS. :shrug:
Good find. They had other evidence of precedents BTW.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Being a DU'er I certainly know about the others

But interesting that they knew about this possibility since at least 74.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. and then there were these guys...

Unbelievable that they continue to feign ignorance.

[Streetdoc270]

3. its the phrase 'these people'

She really wanted to say 'I don’t think anybody could have predicted that those dusky skinned brown people had the intellegence to pull off any thing like this'

[rkc3]

4. Her comment was followed by...

I'm a light skinned brown person and I'm surprised I had the intelligence to make it to this meeting.

(Using self-deprecation to prove her point.)

[yurbud]

5. Great post--they should have nailed her ass to the wall more

[spooked911]

6. of course it wasn't new at all -- in fact somebody rammed a small plane in

to the white house when Clinton was in office.

Condi was lying to cover-up the fact that NORAD was running a live-fly hijacking exercise on 9/11 that mimcked planes smashing into buildings-- and THAT is the key to understanding 9/11.

[dbonds]

7. I think I recall

that the Columbine nuts (eric and dylan whats their names), planned on hijacking a jet and crashing it into New York City after they finished at the school. I think that was in their diary. And that is a much more recent event.

[htuttle]

8. Inconceivable!

Er...or maybe not.

[uppityperson]

13. I do not think you know what that word means.

Inigo

[MissB]

9. Even more recently there was a book

by Tom Clancy - I think it was Debt of Honor- where a foreign pilot slammed a plane into Congress, killing the President and much of Congress. It came out in the early 90s, I think.

[MissMarple]

11. Executive Orders, and that's how I knew Rice was lying or incompetent.

My jaw literally dropped when I heard her say that. It was outrageous, she should have been fired. Something is seriously wrong with our leadership.

Review from Amazon.com

"Tom Clancy goes to the White House in this thriller of political terror and global disaster. The American political situation takes a disturbing turn as the President, Congress, and Supreme Court are obliterated when a Japanese terrorist lands a 747 on the Capitol. Meanwhile the Iranians are unleashing an Ebola virus threat on the country. Jack Ryan, CIA agent, is cast in the middle of this maelstrom. Because of a recent sex scandal, Ryan was appointed vice president, a slot he doesn't hold for long when he lands in the Chief Executive's chair. He goes after the Iranians and then tries to piece together the country and his life the only way he knows how--with a fury that we've grown accustomed to in Clancy's intricate, detailed, and accurate stories of warfare and intrigue.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title."

[LeftHander]

10. too late....Nixon already dead...

sorry...

lol