Reply #86: Daniel Hopsicker and the Florida cover-up.

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This excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Daniel Hopsicker's "Welcome to Terrorland"

“The FBI took all our files, everything. They loaded the files right outside this window,” said Treanor, indicating a parking lot outside the station, “into two Ryder trucks, then drove them right onto a C-130 military cargo plane at the Sarasota airport, which took off for Washington with Jeb Bush aboard.”

We will come back to visit the question of the Governor of Florida ’s national security responsibilities, or scandal-averting responsibilites. The important point was that taking files was a lot different than copying them. We were learning that the FBI wasn’t taking any chances.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Venice City Manager George Hunt said to reporters, “It’s really just coincidence that terrorists chose such a place (as Venice) to be their training ground for the unspeakable.”

Was that true? Determining whether it was or not would be complicated by the fact that the FBI had dutifully confiscated anything that looked remotely like evidence.