* Florida - Why the T in TSA doesn’t stand for trucking
-- Ex-CIA agent Goss said after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., the agency worried terrorists would try to hijack trucks with tanker loads and use them in a terrorist attack... Two rental trucks were used in two of the largest domestic terrorist attacks of their times, and only two years apart... Porter Goss, who served as the 19th director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was the first director of the CIA under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, says Washington was looking at the truck renting and leasing industry as a whole as a result of the bombings... What kept the trucking industry from sweeping reform and governmental oversight, in part, was its willingness to triage its own problem... As lawmakers further trained their focus on combating domestic terrorism, Goss says trucking was one of the only industries to approach Washington with solutions, which included more rigorous vetting of potential drivers... Saying that step helped avoid further regulation would be a serious misstatement...
Amelia Island,FLA,USA - CCJ, by Jason Cannon - March 17, 2015
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