Unfriendly Skies: deadly politics of aviation safety

<body> History of Airline Disasters And The Behind-the-Scene Causes The purpose of this site is to present accurate factual information about a history of airline disasters resulting from a culture of arrogance and corruption and the many other people and groups that had become complicit and enablers. For a more thorough understanding of the problems, the information at this site should be combined with the information at www.defraudingamerica.com. Quick Links to Most Current Aviation Disasters Index to 9/11 hijackings and unpublicized enablers. Mole in al Qaeda cell providing information on planned 9/11 hijackings. Comparison of blame for 9/11. Culture responsible for 50 years of preventable aviation disasters Conspiracy withholding information. Aviation Disasters Made Possible By Multiple Enablers Culture and corrupt activities of certain people in the government's aviation safety offices. Sampling of 50-year history of preventable and forewarned aviation disasters, including the latest in a continuing series that occurred on September 11, 2001. Involvement of federal judges in repeatedly blocking former federal agents from reporting the corrupt activities in the government's aviations safety offices and criminal activities in other areas of overt and covert government activities. Involvement of Justice Department employees in repeatedly blocking the exposure of high-level corruption. The murderous culture in the FBI and other Department of Justice offices that helps to understand the other areas of misconduct that such culture breeds. Involvement of a hoard of lawyers and law firms, from 1982 to 2005, seeking to block a former federal agent from continuing to expose high-level corruption. The parallel conduct by lawyers, judges, and Justice Department personnel that met the legal definition of a conspiracy, criminal racketeering enterprise (RICO), and obstruction of justice. The history of cover-ups by bribe-taking members of Congress, that covered up for 50 years of high-level corruption brought to their attention by former federal agent Rodney Stich and many other present and former government agents and insiders. Record of 50 years of cover-ups by media people and media corporations protecting their "news" sources in government, and the source of secret payments by the CIA and other government departments. One-day's consequence on September 11, 2001, made possible by the: Culture of corruption in the government's aviation safety offices. Obstruction of justice by Department of Justice employees and their felony retaliation against former federal agent Rodney Stich for attempting to report the corruption related to a continuing series of major aviation disasters. Obstruction of justice and retaliation against a sampling of other government agents and insiders to discredit their exposures or prevent such exposures. Obstruction of justice by members of Congress, while passing legislation for the benefit of their bribe-paying groups, inflicting still other harm upon the gullible American public. Cover-ups and disinformation by media people and media corporations, made worse by elimination of investigative reporters and replacement by biased political pundits. Futile David vs. Goliath Battle To Halt Preventable Aviation Disasters The person behind this site, Rodney Stich, discovered during the past 40 years, with the help of dozens of other insiders, corruption that enabled to occur great harm to the security of the United States and many of its people. Briefly, the discoveries and evidence occurred in the following order: Discovery of a culture of corruption related to a series of preventable airline disasters. This was discovered after he was asked to take the assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history, and particularly the corruption at United Airlines. Discovery, with the help of dozens of other insiders, of corrupt and criminal activities in other areas of covert and overt government operations. Circumventing the universal cover-ups in government and the media by publishing books and appearing on hundreds of radio and television shows, in an attempt to inform and motivate the public to help fight the deadly corruption. Start of attacks from CIA-FBI-related law firms and lawyers, California judges, federal judges, and Department of Justice personnel, that were intended to hinder or halt his exposure activities. The documented corruption continued to expand throughout government, along with the various forms of tragic consequences. The record reveals the role by hundreds of enablers that enabled to occur major tragedies upon the American public and upon national security. More Details on Conduct Responsible For Many of America's Calamities This sequence of events evolves around what Rodney Stich discovered during the past 40 years. Briefly, he was a Navy Patrol Plane Commander (PPC) in World War II, an international airline captain for many years, a key airline safety inspector-investigator for a number of years; a successful real estate investor; and then an author and activist against hardcore corruption in government. He was one of the most highly experienced pilots in the government FAA safety offices. The following is a more detailed sequence of how he and several dozen other insiders discovered endemic corruption in overt and covert government operations and the relationship to major tragic consequences: Discovery of vast areas of corruption in the government's aviation safety offices, and at United Airlines, associated with a series of particular and very brutal airline disasters. In an attempt to report and halt the corruption, he spent over 20 years using tactics to circumvent the cover-ups by members of Congress, Justice Department personnel, and media cover-ups. Those measures included, for instance: Following the standard retaliation and cover-ups when government insiders seek to report high-level corruption, while a government agent, Stich exercised the law in such a manner, as never before done, he acted similar to an independent prosecutor, conducting several weeks of court-like adversary proceedings before an administrative law judge, William G. Jennings, a lawyer on the FAA administrator's staff. (He later became aviation safety director for the International Airline Passengers Association!) During the hearing, three additional major airline disasters occurred, each one was due to the exact same specific air safety problems and criminal violations that Stsich had repeatedly reported in writing, and for which higher management blocked corrective actions. As part of the 4500 page hearing transcript, Stich submitted as part of his closing brief a warning that a cover-up would continue the corruption, which in turn would continue the fraud-related crashes−and the related high number of people killed. As expected, the hearing officer covered up for the corrupt activities and praised the very people whose misconduct enabled to occur several recent airline disasters and the deaths of several hundred people. During this entire period, Stich was notifying members of Congress of the corruption and the resulting crashes and deaths. Replies consisted of admission of the gravity of the charges, and then refusal to either receive Stich's evidence, refusal to conduct hearings, and refusal to request that congress's investigative body, the Government Accountability office, conduct an investigation. The cavalier cover-ups would enable many years of preventable airline disasters to occur. The latest ripple effects from the culture and the cover-ups occurred on September 11, 2001. Other than the standard practice of cover-ups in government, it is possible that another factor resulting in the cover-ups was possible public reaction if they learned of the relationship between the arrogance and corruption and the many deaths that resulted from the misconduct. (Deaths in airline disasters aren't a pretty sight!) Following the cover-up, Stich submitted to the FAA administrator, at the urging of a friend who was the head of the FAA's Sky Marshal program, a memorandum of specifics relating to the corruption, the crashes, the deaths, and the forewarned continuation of these matters. The lengthy report is shown here in three files (only suitable for serious readers): Part one (Adobe PDF) Part two (Adobe PDF) Part three (Adobe PDF) One segment in MS Word. Refusing to work under such a environment of arrogance, corruption, and repeated fatal airline disasters, Stich resigned from the FAA with the intention of fighting the corruption from outside of government. That decision would bring down upon Stich 20 years of continuous misuse of government offices, resulting in great personal and financial harm. Filing a series of lawsuits, starting in the late 1970s, seeking to report the criminal activities under the federal crime reporting statute and under the federal statute that permits anyone to seek a court order to require a federal official to perform a mandatory duty and to halt unlawful conduct. Because of the many deaths that had already occurred, and were continuing to occur, from the misconduct, federal judges had an even greater responsibility to quickly allow Stich's attempts to report the problems to be heard. The initial lawsuits were against the FAA and NTSB. Under the federal crime reporting statute, a federal judge has a mandatory duty under his administrative duties to receive the information on the federal crimes that Stich discovered and documented while he was a federal airline safety inspector-investigator; and a mandatory duty to hear the lawsuit to determine whether a federal cause of action was stated. Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, U.S. attorneys from the Department of Justice filed motions to immediately dismiss them, blocking Stich's attempts to report the federal crimes. Their argument was that Stich had no standing to file those actions. This bizarre argument flew in the face of the mandatory requirement to report federal offenses to a federal judge (or other federal officer), and failure to do so has resulted in federal prosecutors charging thousands of people with a federal crime. Those motions constituted blatant obstruction of justice tactics that would, if successful, continue the federal crimes and the resulting fatal crashes. Department of Justice personnel had previously blocked Stich's attempts to report the criminal activities while he was a federal agent, and even sought to block Stich's appearance before a federal grand jury in Denver while Stich was still acting as a federal agent. In response to the motions to dismiss, federal judges blocked the reporting of the criminal actives and dismissed the lawsuits. Stich appealed, and the appellate court judges, although admitting the gravity of his allegations, refused to reinstate the attempt to report the deadly corruption. In each case, Stich then filed appeals (called petitions for writ of certiorari) with the U.S. Supreme Court, making the Justices fully aware of the federal crimes (which they also must receive under the federal crime reporting statute) and of the obstruction of justice felonies by federal judges over whom they had supervisory responsibilities. Over a period of years, as Stich learned of other areas of corruption, and also sought relief from the endless series of judicial attacks that violated wholesale numbers of state and federal statutes and case laws and constitutional protection, other papers were filed with the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, making them complicit and enablers in the vast areas of corruption and the resulting consequences−some of which totaled the loss of many lives. The blocking of reports of major criminal activities continued the crimes, and as expected, the frequent occurrence of preventable airline disasters continued for another 15 years. With the occurrence of these great tragedies made possible by the obstruction of justice tactics by federal judges and Justice Department personnel, every subsequent federal judge that received lawsuits seeking to report still additional criminal activities had a choice to make: Continue the cover-up so as to protect the judges and Jus5tice Department personnel whose misconduct enabled to occur a continuing series of preventable airline disasters; or Perform their mandatory duty, exposing the corrupt activities of their fellow judges and enabling the public to see the relationship between the misconduct and the brutal ending of many lives. The decision was made to cover up, making many of thee subsequent airline disasters that could have been prevented, The decision was made to continue the cover-ups, cavalierly sacrificing the lives that were to be lost. With the continuing airline crashes resulting from the deep-seated culture, Stich then decided to use other tactics: publishing a book and appearing on hundreds of radio and television shows, naively expecting the public to respond with outrage. (He also in younger years believed in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!!) The first book was the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, being published in 1978. At that time, Stich had also been a real estate developer in rapidly growing California and had approximately $10 million in assets that funded his exposure activities. The publicity from these efforts did result in many letters from readers and listeners praising him for his efforts. His books also received excellent book reviews. His first book was published at almost the exact time that another major air disaster occurred: a PSA Airline 727 crash into San Diego, which took the record from the United Airlines crash into New York City on December 16, 1960−which was one of the many crashes that caused FAA management to request Stich to took over the safety responsibilities for that program. The publicity arising from the book and the hundreds of radio and television shows (sometimes as many as ten a day when a major crash occurred such as the one in San Diego) put at risk the federal judges and Justice Department personnel whose earlier misconduct enabled to occur the subsequent fraud-related crashes. Under criminal law, they became enablers in the crashes and the deaths. Also resulting from this publicity, dozens of other insiders started contacting Stich with information about criminal activities that they discovered, either during their official government duties, or while involved in criminal activities direct by government personnel, primarily CIA. Although the harm resulting from these activities were unlike the harm Stich had discovered in the aviation environment, they were, nevertheless, inflicting great harm upon national security and other national interests. Stich then published the first of several editions of Defrauding America and Drugging America. Emergence of Powerful Force Orchestrating Simultaneous Events These activities apparently triggered events somewhere high in the federal government. The year 1982 saw the start of 20 years of continuing actions against Stich involving dozens of lawyers and law firms and cooperating California and federal judges. These sham legal attacks violated wholesale numbers of state and federal statutes and controlling case law, and constitutional protections. They were directed at stripping Stich of the $10 million in assets that funded his exposure activities. Any single one of the endless series of judicial actions, and any single one of the many state and federal laws being violated during the dozens of judicial acts, violated federal statutes, and invoked mandatory jurisdiction of federal judges when federal remedies were exercised. In every instance, federal judges violated the federal laws that required them to provide relief under certain federal statutes, including the civil Rights Act and the Declaratory Judgment act. They were continuing their earlier practice of blocking Stich from reporting the deadly criminal activities. At about the same time, Stich was discovering the other areas of corrupt activities from the almost daily contact with an endless number of insiders. As required by the federal crime reporting statute, Stich then filed federal actions seeking to report these criminal activities. The first attempt was made in1987 in a lawsuit filed in the federal courts at Sacramento California. The mandatory due process procedural remedies that were required by law were openly violated, and combined with an order barring Stich from filing any actions in any federal district or appellate court. These judicial acts constituted obstruction of justice offenses and blatant violation of due process requirements. As Stich discovered still other criminal activities during the Reagan-Bush administrations related to the Iran-Contra affair and drug smuggling, the October Surprise operation, and others, from people who were part of the covert operations, Stich again sought to report the crimes as required by the federal crime reporting statute. Since members of Congress and Justice Department personnel had a long history of cover-up of prior attempts to report federal crimes involving high government personnel. Stich chose to report them to a federal judge (as permitted by the crime reporting statute). Immediately upon filing the attempts to report the federal crimes, U.S. Attorney David Levi, Sacramento, and several federal judges, charged Stich with criminal contempt of court for attempting to report the criminal activities related to the ongoing series of airline disasters plus the additional areas that he had discovered. Federal judges denied Stich the constitutional right to a jury trial, held that he committed criminal contempt of court, and at the age of 67, while still recovering from open-heart surgery, sent him to federal prison for six months. Two months were spent in solitary confinement. During his incarceration, at the request of the Friedman law firm and an attorney that Stich hired (Josh Landish, Las Vegas),. as Vegas federal judge Robert Jones seized Stich's assets without cause, without the required hearing and notice of hearing. Oakland federal judge Edward Jellen unlawfully dismissed every opposition that Stich filed, and unlawfully issued an order barring Stich from filing any objection to the seizure of his $10 million in assets (that funded his exposure activates). When Stich filed an objection, as provided by law, it was unlawfully unfiled and Judge Jellen charged Stich with contempt of court for violating the illegal order voiding Stich's constitution due process rights. Eventually, after 15 years of continual attacks, Stich was converted from a multi-millionaire to a state of poverty. The enablers appeared confident that the danger of being exposed had now ended. Shortly before the hijacking of four airliners on September 11, 2001, Stich made one final attempt to report the criminal activities that he and his group of insiders had discovered. Stich filed a lawsuit in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. (Federal court clerks in California refused to allow him access to federal courts.) (MS Word) (Adobe PDF). That lawsuit sought to report the criminal activities: In the government's aviation safety offices that repeatedly blocked the implementation of safety measures and correction of safety deficiencies or violations related to an ongoing series of airline disasters. In the FBI and other DOJ offices. Of personnel within the CIA. During the lawsuit, Stich also filed a declaration. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Possibly in an effort to protect the corrupt activities of the many people involved in attempting to halt Stich's exposure activities, or to protect his fellow judges that were already involved in the criminal obstruction of justice, Reno federal judge Reed blocked the reporting of the criminal activities and dismissed the lawsuit before the defendants had to answer discovery questions. On September 11, 2001, four groups of terrorists easily hijacked four airliners, killing nearly 3,000 people, and starting a series of reactions that would inflict evene more harm and deaths upon the United States and its people. The failures, or misconduct, of three key agencies contributed to the conditions enabling the easy hijacking of the four airliners: Failure of the FAA to require the measures to prevent airliners from being hijacked that were known and obviously needed for several decades. This failure would be an obvious result of the FAA corruption that Stich and other FAA agents had reported and documented for years. The FAA had the primary responsibility for preventing airline hijackings, and their involvement was carefully withheld from the 9/11 Commission Report. (Read Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries.) Failure and refusal of the FBI to act on forewarned knowledge of the planned hijackings. This failure and refusal was obvious from the corruption in the FBI and other Department of Justice offices that Stich had reported. In the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia, Stich describes the valuable information given to FBI agents in the New York City area by a Mafia soldier acting as a mole inside the al Qaeda cell headed by Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. That information was kept sequestered by high FBI-DOJ personnel so as to discredit the mole. CIA failure to act on the information about the planned hijackings. This would also be a natural reaction in an organization riddled with corrupt activities that are too numerous to mention here, but detailed in the books, Defrauding America and Drugging America. After 9/11, Stich made several final attempts to report the corruption and thee people that enabled 9/11 to occur. These actions included the following: Filing a lawsuit in the federal courts at New York City where most of thee 9/11 litigation occurred. That lawsuit was filed under the federal crime reporting statute and other statutes, that required the submission to be immediately filed upon receipt and to allow it to proceed. Instead, U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey unlawfully blocked its filing for over 12 months, which violated numerous due process requirements and violated obstruction of justice statutes, especially Title 18 U.S.C. § 4. Since the first lawsuit filed by Stich in the 1970s, he had repeatedly filed appeals (petitions for writ of certiorari) with the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. To circumvent Judge Mukasey's blocking actions, Stich wrote letters to each of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court informing them of the latest obstruction of justice by a judge over whom they had supervisory responsibility. following those letters, Mukasey then allowed the lawsuit to be filed, and then immediately, ,that same day, issued an order that dismissed the action. In that way, Mukasey aided and abetted the prior criminal activities, including those related to hundreds of deaths, and enabled to continue the culture of corruption that continued to spread throughout government and throughout the legal fraternity. Appeals to the court of appeals in New York and to the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were blocked, continuing the decades of judicial corruption. Additional Details On David vs Goliath Battles While a federal safety inspector-investigator assigned to the Los Angeles office, Rodney Stich was asked to accept the assignment to correct the conditions resulting in the worst series of air disasters in the nation's history. At that time, United Airlines had more fatal airline crashes than all the other airlines combined. The United Airlines training and competency checks were primarily accomplished at Denver, and this is where Stich was sent to correct the problems. Included in the number of airline crashes that prompted government officials to ask Stich to take over the program was a crash into New York City that was the world's worst at that time (based upon the number of people killed). That crash occurred within one mile of where the World Trade Center would be later built. The same problems that Stich discovered then, that enabled the United Airlines crash into New York City were the same problems that were the areas of primary blame for the easy hijackings of four airliners on 9/11. The conditions that Stich discovered, which had been discovered by earlier federal air safety inspectors who found themselves powerless to function in their air safety positions, included: Denial of legally-required and industry-accepted training of the pilots and flight engineers. Denial of emergency evacuation training that had to be done on a yearly basis, and which was ordered as a result of a prior United Airlines crash at Denver where many people were cremated alive. Falsification of government-required records to falsely indicated that the required training and competency checks had been accomplished. An anything-goes competency standard by certain United Airlines check pilots authorized to perform to FAA standards by the FAA. Flight crewmembers who obviously needed corrective training were denied the training, thereby saving the company millions of dollars a year and making the United Airlines check pilots look good in the eyes of the company. Certain United Airlines management personnel threatening federal safety inspectors with adverse consequences, including removal from the program or transfer, which they had been able to accomplish by pressure upon FAA management. Corrupt Conduct by FAA Management Was Enabler to Aviation Disasters What Stich discovered, and himself experienced, included the following: Refusal to act on the officially−reported withholding of training. Refusal to act on the falsification of training records, despite these being criminal acts associated with a series of prior fatal airline disasters. Refusal to terminate the authority of certain United Airlines check pilots that were reported as falsifying the training records, that had an anything-goes safety standard, and responsible for denying legally-required training of the pilots and flight engineers. Instructing federal safety agents not to report safety problems at United Airlines because it would make the FAA management look bad when there was a fatal accident (due to the previously reported safety problem). Removal and destruction of official government reports filed by government safety agents that reported the serious problems at United Airlines. Various forms of retaliation against government safety inspectors who reported the safety problems responsible for the continuing series of airline crashes. Suspension of government safety inspectors when United Airlines management, or union personnel, complained to higher FAA management in Los Angeles. Transfer of government safety inspectors at the request of United Airlines, often to undesirable locations. And other problems, along with a continuing series of near-crashes and actual crashes. Acting Similar to Independent Prosecutor The continuation of fatal airline crashes and the continuation of the arrogance and corruption that bred these disasters caused Stich to take actions that were never before taken. He exercised the law in a creative manner and took on the position of an independent prosecutor, conducting hearings that last for four months, and included taking sworn testimony during the hearing of key FAA officials. The 4,000 page hearing transcript proved Stich's charges that corruption within the FAA was responsible for an ongoing series of fatal airline crashes. In his final closing brief, Stich warned of a continuation of the prior airline disasters if the administrative hearing officer, William Jennings, engaged in a cover-up (which he did). During the four-month hearing, three additional fatal airline crashes occurred, each one due to the very same problems that Stich had reported in writing, for which he received various forms of retaliation from FAA management. Salt Lake City The United Airlines crash at Salt Lake City resulted in 43 people being cremated alive. The official NTSB report identified as the blame for the crash and the deaths: The dangerous high-sink-rate of the captain. The NTSB covered up for the fact that Stich had previously filed a report stating that same pilot had a dangerously high sink-rate type of approach and needed corrective training, which was denied to the captain. The flight engineer's failure to perform certain actions after the aircraft hit the ground hard and slid down the runway minus its landing gear. The NTSB covered up for the fact that Stich had repeated filed multi-page reports defining the deficient nature of the flight engineer training, the absence of recognized training and competency checks of the flight engineers at United Airlines and the resulting low level of flight engineer competency; and the retaliation inflicted upon Stich for making such reports. The poor performance of the crew in conducting the passenger evacuation, which the NTSB blamed for the 43 deaths. The NTSB withheld from the official accident report the fact that Stich had made three reports showing that United Airlines had not been providing the yearly required emergency evacuation training, and had done it only in part every three years. And that the FAA refused to act on the reports. Making the FAA conduct even worse, the emergency evacuation training requirements clearly equated the completion of this training with the savings, or loss, or life. Further, that it was United Ai9rline's deadly crash at Denver that was the catalyst for that emergency training requirement. Lake Michigan Another United Airlines crash occurred during descent toward Chicago, which crashed into Lake Michigan when the crew failed to recognize their altitude. Stich had made several reports on pilots' failure to recognize their altitude and made recommendations, which were, as usual, ignored by the culture of doing nothing so ass to please United Airlines. Cincinnati Another crash occurring during the hearing was of an American Airlines jet approachingthe airport for a landing. Failure of the pilots to recognize their proximity to the ground resulted in the pilots flying the aircraft into the ground. Again, this was a problem that Stich had recognized and reported in writing, along with recommended preventative measures. Portland, Oregon One of many other United Airlines crashes occurring after Stich finished acting as an independent prosecutor was the fatal United Airlines crash into Portland, Oregon. The crash was due to extreme ignorance of the entire crew with basic aircraft systems, a problem Stich repeatedly reported as existing at United Airlines. (There were many excellent pilot's at United Airlines; the problem was with those crewmembers that had major deficiencies due to the training and competency check frauds.) Stich's first edition of the book, Unfriendly Skies, had just been released, and being widely recognized. The NTSB, possibly fearing that the scandal involving the FAA, and it's own complicity, would surface by conducting the public hearings that were standard at such crashes, abolished the public hearing. Decades of Complicity By Bribe-Taking Members of Congress Throughout the ordeal, Stich sent letters to members of Congress, advising them of the corruption, the prior airline disasters, and those that would follow. Those who responded refused to get involved, sometimes stating these were not their area of responsibility. Years later, when Stich discovered other areas of corruption in government offices that were inflicting great harm upon national interests, Stich continued to report these crimes against the United States to members of Congress. In most instances, none answered, making possible the continuation of the corruption and the tragedies, including those of 9/11, the truth of which has never before been made known to the people. Complicity of DOJ Personnel In Obstructing Justice Stich sent letters to the Department of Justice and described the criminal activities, including the criminal perjury during the hearings. DOJ personnel engaged in a cover-up. Some of these letters were sent while Stich was still employed by the FAA, accusing certain people of criminal misconduct. If Stich could not prove these charges, the FAA would have had to terminate his employment. The early letters were followed by letters reporting criminal activities in other areas of government operations. High-level Department of Justice personnel "deep-sixing" explosive information on planned terrorist attacks obtained by key al Qaeda source, enabling to occur nearly 4,000 deaths. The "deep-sixing" of this critical information was related to a series of murders by a key FBI supervisor in the New York City offices, and the cover-ups of such murders by higher officials. Information on culture of the people in control of the U.S. Department of Justice. Comparison of blame for the 3,000 killed on 9/11. Circumvent DOJ Block by Appearing Before Federal Grand Jury Stich circumvented the block by Justice Department personnel and appeared before a federal grand jury in Denver. The mechanics of how a grand jury functions, controlled by the U.S. attorney, prevented an investigation. Most members of a grand jury are naive members of the public, with no knowledge of criminal statutes, and simply rubber-stamp whatever the prosecutor wanted. The U.S. attorney controlling the grand jury was hostile, Causing stich to halt his description of what happened and pack his exhibits. Afterwards, several members of the grand jury approached Stich and stated they felt he must have a matter that should be investigated. But they had no power to do that. Resigning from the FAA On Basis of Corruption Never before in the history of the FAA had a government safety agent forced an exposure of the deadly culture by acting similar to an independent prosecutor. It was now time to retaliate. The FAA transferred Stich to an assignment at the FAA center in Oklahoma City, into a non-flying position. After many years with the FAA, Stich felt he could not work under these conditions and left. He took his companion, Savage, a Doberman, and drove back to the California that he had left many years before, to start a new life. In California Stich started investing in real estate, starting with a $500 investment, which he pyramided over and over again. That $500 investment eventually accumulated over $10 million in assets. He maintained his aviation safety skills, helping to start the Society of Air Safety Investigators, and by accumulating a number of multi-engine aircraft to maintain his piloting proficiency. He took many pictures from airplanes in his spare time. Continuing Aviation Disasters Rekindled His Efforts As Stich had forewarned in his final closing brief, and in letters to members of Congress, the continuing culture in certain segments of the government's aviation safety offices caused a continuation of preventable airline disasters. These crashes caused Stich to become an activist against corruption related to aviation matters. He published books, appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, and gave speeches, in an attempt to inform the public of these matters and in anticipation that there would be a sufficient number of people outraged and with sufficient courage to help bring about changes. The first book that he wrote was the first of several editions of Unfriendly Skies. That book is now in its fourth edition and called, Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries. Filing Federal Lawsuits Under Crime Reporting Statute Stich also filed federal lawsuits against the FAA to report criminal activities to a federal court under the federal crime reporting statute (18 U.S.C. § 4), and under the statute (28 U.S.C. § 1361) providing any citizen the right to seek a court order to force public officials to perform a legal duty. He also filed a federal lawsuit against the NTSB to seek a court order requiring the political board members to receive material evidence related to several airline crashes that they were covering up. The clear wording of Title 18 U.S.C. § 4 states that federal judges (or any other federal officer) must receive the information and evidence of federal crimes being offered to them, as part of their administrative duties (not judicial decision making authority). Instead of receiving the information, federal district and appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit courts blocked Stich from providing this information and evidence of crimes against the United States that involved people in key government positions. In the first action against the FAA, district and appellate judges admitted in the record that these were serious charges but that receiving this information was a function of Congress and not the courts. The clear wording of the crime reporting statute shows that federal judges do have this responsibility. Further responsibility arose under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361 in which Stich sought a federal court order forcing FAA officials to perform their legal duty and halt their unlawful conduct. Justice Department lawyers filed objections to the introduction of this evidence and moved to have the lawsuits dismissed. The lawsuits were dismissed, and Stich filed appeals and then petitions to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who also had the responsibility under the crime reporting statute to receive the evidence of the criminal activities. They also refused. The refusal to perform their duties under the federal crime reporting statute caused the internal FAA misconduct to continue, which was followed by even worse airline crashes due to problems that the FAA should have corrected. Stich then published the second edition of Unfriendly Skies, which named the federal judges and Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, as holding blame in the subsequent crashes and deaths. This book and Stich's continuing appearances on radio and television threatened to expose many people in key government positions with the criminal misconduct, crashes, and deaths. United Airlines was also threatened with exposure since much of the misconduct was by management personnel of the airline. Discovering Criminal Activities In Other Areas of Government Stich's books and frequent radio and television appearances caused other government agents to contact him, providing him with information and documentation on criminal activities in other areas of government operations. The federal crime reporting statute required that Stich, or any other person who knows of a federal crime, to promptly report it to a federal judge (or other federal officer). Since Justice Department personnel and members of Congress had repeatedly refused to receive the evidence, Stich again exercised his right and his responsibility to report the crimes to a federal court, which he started to do in 1986. These criminal activities are described in such books as Defrauding America and Drugging America. Tactics to Halt Exposing High-Level Corruption Required Repeated Violations Of Important Civil And Constitutional Rights Again, federal judges refused to receive the evidence. They then compounded this offense by issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich, for the remainder of his life, from filing any papers in the federal courts. Refusing to receive evidence of criminal activities, obstructing justice, were federal crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 3, and 4. These injunctive orders were void on the basis that they violated each of the four legal requirements for such orders and were unlawful and unconstitutional by depriving Stich of the legal rights, legal protections and legal defenses guaranteed to all citizens. Further, their result, and surely their intent, was to obstruct justice. The Injunctive orders blocked the reporting of criminal activities and were therefore criminal in intent and consequences. As Stich received additional information on additional criminal activities, he again filed papers in the Ninth Circuit federal courts at San Francisco and Sacramento, seeking to report these crimes, which even included subversive activities. Justice Department lawyers and federal judges then charged Stich with criminal contempt of court for violating the orders that terminated Stich's right to federal court access. He was denied a jury trial, and the same group that was criminally implicated in the criminal activities through their cover-ups then sentenced Stich to federal prison for six months. He was 69 years of age at that time and had just undergone six-coronary bypass open heart surgery. During this imprisonment he was put in solitary confinement for eight weeks. It is a criminal offense to inflict harm upon a former federal agent or witness for seeking to report criminal activities. Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1510, 1512, 1513. Parallel Legal-Judicial Schemes To Halt Exposing High-Level Corruption Simultaneous with federal judges and Justice Department personnel blocking the reporting of these criminal and subversive activities, the CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross in San Francisco filed a sham lawsuit against Stich in the courts at Fairfield, California, focusing on the $10 million in real estate assets that funded Stich's exposure activities. the lawsuit sought to immediately deprive Stich access to these funds while acting to destroy the assets. In law, there are two ways to immediately place a person's assets in control of a judge. Either through probate or in a divorce action in a community property state where the court holds that the property is community. Stich wasn't dead so the probate route was out. Stich had been legally divorced for the prior 20 years and that route should have been out. No problem; when you have control of judges and have a powerful source high in government supporting your unlawful conduct, the victim has no defenses. The CIA-front law firm filed a divorce action against Stich, claiming that their client in Duncanville, Texas wanted to terminate the marriage and was claiming most of Stich's personal and corporate assets. That lawsuit was barred by dozens of state and federal laws and constitutional protections. Included in the obstacles to that lawsuit was the fact that the parties had been legally divorced for over 20 years, as established by a January 31, 1966 divorce judgment that had been entered as a local judgment in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, and California. Both parties had been declaring themselves divorced throughout this period in real estate and other legal transactions. The parties' divorced status was recognized in over 100 title insurance policies. In addition, the Texas resident continued to declare herself divorced in her resident state of Texas while the CIA-front law firm was claiming she was married and wanted to terminate that marriage. By placing lis pendens on all of Stich's properties and refusing to allow mortgages to be rolled over when they came due, valuable properties were lost. If the CIA-front law firm was actually representing a marriage partner in Texas, they would be guilty of malpractice for allowing valuable assets to be lost. For six years, over a dozen California judges granted every motion requested by the CIA-front law firm, refused every motion filed by Stich, and continued to violate record-numbers of state and federal laws barring them from the actions they were taking. It became apparent that they did not fear the consequences of their blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional conduct that violated numerous federally protected rights for which there were remedies in federal courts. It became a standard practice of California judges to label every exercise of due process defense remedies a frivolous act, and then ordered Stich to pay huge financial sanctions for exercising these defenses. It is a criminal offense to inflict harm upon a person for exercising constitutional due process rights. Exercising Federal Defense Remedies Stich filed the first of numerous papers in federal court seeking to halt the personal and financial losses arising from the massive violations of state and federal laws. This right was provided by the laws and Constitution of the United States including: Declaratory Judgment Act (Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202) FRCivP 57, and related law. Federal law requires that this federal cause of action receive court priority. Civil Rights Act (Title 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983-1986), for violations of state and federal laws and constitutional rights under color of state law. The same federal judges who blocked the reporting of the criminal activities, and were implicated in the resulting deaths, then repeatedly violated every protections that they were paid and entrusted to provide. Their actions protected the scheme, protected the CIA-front law firm and lawyers, and protected the California judges who became part of the scheme. Despite the bar against dismissal when the facts stated in the complaint state a federal cause of action for which federal relief is available, every federal judge promptly dismissed the lawsuits, thereby protecting the CIA-front law firm and the heavy involvement of California judges, aided and abetted the violations of federally protected rights for which federal judges had a responsibility to prevent. Federal judges were now combining their obstruction of justice with a blatantly sham lawsuit filed by a CIA-front law firm to halt Stich's exposure activities through taking of his assets. Without going into detail on this page, for those who are interested in these details, they are described in a lawsuit filed in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) That lawsuit raised several issues, including: Seeking to report the corrupt activities in the FAA, FBI, and CIA that would shortly thereafter be the areas of primary and secondary blame for the conditions that enabled four groups of Middle East personnel to hijack four airliners on September 11, 2001. These areas have been meticulously avoided in congressional hearings and by the 9/11 Commission personnel. At this stage Stich had acquired considerable more information on corruption in various government offices, partly from years of information that he received from agents of then FBI, CIA, DEA, ONI, Customs, FAA; former drug smugglers carrying out drug smuggling operations for CIA agents and during the Contra operation; and former Mafia figures, including Gregory Scarpa, Jr. At this stage, federal judges were so heavily implicated that they blocked the lawsuit from proceeding. During the proceedings, the 9/11 hijackings occurred. Stich then filed into that lawsuit a declaration showing the relationship of the lawyers and judges in multiple legal schemes to block the reporting of the tragedy-related corruption. Orders seeking to halt the massive civil and constitutional violations perpetrated by the CIA-front law firm and lawyers, California judges acting in unison with them, and the federal judges who aided and abetted the scheme. Damages against the lawyers and others who participated in the parallel schemes to block the exposure of the criminal activities that had such tragic consequences. Before U.S. District Judge Edward Reed stopped the action, thereby covering up for the corruption and the participants, the 9/11 hijackings occurred. Since the hijackings were made possible by the corruption Stich sought to report, and the various roles played in the cover-up of such corruption by each of the lawyers, law firms, and judges that Stich named in the lawsuit, Stich filed a declaration into that action. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Without going in the many other details, federal judges and the CIA-front law firm seized Stich's assets, violating the requirement of a hearing, notice of hearing, and legally required cause. From 1987 to 1997, they stripped Stich of his life's assets, converting him from a multi-millionaire to a state of poverty. Today, in his eighties, he lives on his modest Social Security payments. Seeking Relief in Chapter 11 Courts From Massive Civil Rights Violations Denied all due process defenses in California and federal courts, and continuing to lose valuable real estate as loans became due that could not be refinanced, Stich filed Chapter 11 for his personal and corporate assets seeking to force a federal judge to address the massive violations of state and federal laws. He sought to have the Chapter 11 judge order the removal of the lis pendens placed on the properties by the CIA-front law firm and their lawyers. Also, to have an order rendered halting the sham lawsuit in the California courts and declare the validity of the five judgment that had already adjudicated the issues 22 years earlier (the divorce). At that time Stich did not know the existence of the massive corruption in the nation's bankruptcy courts involving corrupt judges, Justice Department trustees, court-appoint trustees, lawyers, and law firms--and CIA involvement. He was to learn these matters at a later date, as detailed in the third editions of Unfriendly Skies and Defrauding America. Instead of performing his duty, Chapter 11 judge Robert Jones (Las Vegas) protected the CIA-front law firm. He signed orders in chambers seizing and liquidating Stich's $10 million in assets, violating the legal and constitutional due process requirement of a hearing, notice of hearing at which Stich could defend, and legally recognized cause. These due process violations were then followed by Chapter 11 Judge Edward Jellen (Oakland, California) issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders barring Stich from filing any objections to the seizure and liquidation of his assets. When Stich did file an objection, the objection was unfiled and Jellen charged him with criminal contempt of court (for filing objections when this due process right had been terminated by his earlier unlawful order). Eventually, all of Stich's assets were gone, including his home and his sole source of income. A heavy price to pay for his efforts to protect a public that appears totally unwilling to exercise any form of outrage or courage to fight cancer-spreading corruption in government. From the very first attempt to report the criminal activities to a federal court in 1977, and throughout the period until 2002, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who held supervisory responsibilities over the same federal judges guilty of these crimes, refused to act. In this way, these justices aided and abetted the criminal acts that subverted major national interests, including national security, and were complicit in the various forms of harm inflicted upon the American people. The 3,000 deaths on September 11, 2001, were made possible by the corruption in the FAA that resulted in the conditions insuring the success of four groups of hijackers, and the cover-ups by federal judges and others. From 1986 to 1995, Stich was continually under either house arrest or in prison for having sought to report the criminal and subversive activities to a federal court or for exercising defense remedies against the taking of his life assets (that had funded his exposure of crimes against the United States). Details of the corruption in the bankruptcy courts are in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and in Defrauding America. What is stated here is only the tip of the iceberg. Much more information is on this Internet site and in the books that Stich and his group of government agents have written. Last Judicial Attempt to Halt Corruption That Enabled 9/11 to Occur Stich filed a lawsuit, prior to 9/11, in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada, seeking to report the corrupt activities that he and a group of other government agents had discovered. Also, the action named as defendants, lawyers and judges who were covering up for the crimes and engaging in multiple parallel legal schemes to inflict great personal and financial harm upon him. Among the various federal claims were that that fell under the RICO act for a series of predicate acts to obstruct justice and inflict great harm. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) More details on this lawsuit at other pages on this site. During the attempt to provide these reports, the events of 9/11 occurred. A declaration was filed in that lawsuit related to the blame for 9/11, emphasizing the need for the judge to receive reports of the criminal activities (that he had been blocking). (MS Word) (Adobe pdf) That declaration was ignored by federal judge Edward Reed at Reno and the Ninth Circuit court of appeals judges. Post 9/11 Judicial Block Insuring History of Catastrophic Events Will Continue Stich made one last effort to report the corrupt activities and the felony cover-ups that made 9/11 possible. He filed a lawsuit submitted on August 15, 2002, for filing in the U.S. district court for the Southern District of New York by former federal agent Rodney Stich. The purpose of the lawsuit was to report and expose the corrupt activities that created the conditions enabling hijackers to seize four airliners, and the misconduct adversely affecting major national issues, including national security. That lawsuit also addressed the massive civil rights violations that were part of the parallel efforts to block the reports of these crimes against the United States. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Further information on that lawsuit can be found at another page. Another 9/11 Judicial Block in Washington Another Sham Lawsuit Filed Prior To 9/11 By South Carolina Law Firm With CIA-Connections The earlier lawyers involved in the attacks upon Stich, all of whom knew they were acting to halt the exposure of the deadly corrupt conditions, were then followed by a new group, bent on seizing the books exposing the corruption. This latest segment was initiated by David Athell Collins and Steven L. Smith of the Charleston, South Carolina, law firm of Smith and Collins. At that point, over 100 lawyers and law firms, and California and federal judges, had been and were involved in seeking to silence what Stich was trying to expose. A local San Francisco legal newspaper, Daily Review, had an article showing that the Smith and Collins law firm had CIA and other government ties. That was another of many indications that a powerful source in government was orchestrating the parallel actions to block information about the high-level corruption from being known by the public. Over 50 lawyers and law firms had put thousands of hours of billable hours into the attacks on the former federal agent, and they knew there were no money or assets−other than the books−at could be seized. Someone was funding their efforts. The facts strongly indicate that Collins and his law firm were acting for unknown sources in government, not only against Stich, but against those who were exposing President George Bush's delinquent air national guard record. Similar acts were done to discredit Operation Tailwind. That same lawyer and law firm several years later filed a lawsuit seeking to discredit CBS 60-Minute exposure of President George Bush II Texas Air National Guard record, further suggesting links to government sources. Although the lawsuit was directed at Stich and the publishing company, people who would be harmed by it would be those who are victimized by the corruption Stich seeks to publicize through his book publishing. That includes the victims of fraud related to air safety; the victims of the arrogant and corrupt was on drugs; the victim of the bankruptcy court fraud; and the victims of the many other criminal activities implicating people in key government positions, federal and California judges, and many others. The allegations in the lawsuit were immediately disproved by the facts to which they referred. By filing the lawsuit in a state court where judicial corruption is even worse than in federal courts, and where one-time state judges act to reward certain legal friends, the chances of Stich prevailing were virtually nil. The law firm knew that Stich had no assets to pay for legal counsel 3,000 miles away, before a judge who is often in the pocket of certain law firms and attorneys. They knew that the publishing company had no assets other than the books, and that it was literally a non-profit operation. Their goal apparently was to obtain a default judgment and then seize control of the books and the name of the books. This scheme would protect the California and federal judges, the legal fraternity whose involvement in the corruption goes back 40 years, as stated in each of Stich's books, would protect Justice Department personnel, members of Congress, and the corruption at United Airlines that caused such brutal consequences for the victim of its fraud. No Basis for Jurisdiction In South Carolina Court Stich had no connection to the State of South Carolina. Neither did Diablo Western Press. It had no office there and solicited no business there. Attorney David Athell Collins first contacted Stich through a June 8, 2000 letter, falsely stating: "Stich makes certain accusations against my client. Essentially, Mr. Stich has accused my client of killing his ex-wife and that the murder was covered up." The book, Defrauding America, clearly did not make any such statement or insinuation. (However, the information provided by the Army medical doctor to Stich suggests such a possibility, but this was not addressed in the book, and the focus of that section was on the DOJ retaliation against the media doctor for his Army reserve unit refusing to provide helicopter involvement in the Ruby Ridge siege and murders. Stich responded with a June 29, 2000 letter, making it clear that no such charge was made by the clear wording in the book. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Another South Carolina law firm involved was Horger, Horger, Lanier & Knight, and Troy Guerard Knight, of Sommerville, South Carolina. The number of lawyers involved in the scheme far exceeded any money they could obtain from Stich, who had already been stripped of his assets and survived on modest Social Security payments. The intent was to seize the books and thereby end Stich's ability to expose the corruption that by then implicated many groups in many related tragedies. Disregarding the absence of jurisdiction over a California resident, the South Carolina judge, Jackson V. Gregory, rendered a $3 million default judgment against Stich and Diablo Western Press. Still Another Sham Lawsuit, Post-9/11, Seeking to Halt Exposure Of 9/11 Related Corruption That South Carolina law firm then paid California lawyers to file an action in the California courts to enter the South Carolina default judgment as a local California judgment, and then seize the books exposing the corruption in government offices. On July 20, 2006, Pasadena lawyer John Guerrini took over to exert efforts to halt Stich's exposure of the corruption that included that which made 9/11 possible. How he would proceed was to be seen, as: Stich had no assets. He had no income other than Social Security. The books that were part of Diablo Western Press were no longer in the possession of Diablo Western Press. Prior to Guerrini joining the "enterprise," another attorney, Mark Wray of Reno, was asked to take over the collection of the judgment. During a telephone conversation on August 8, 2003, Wray advised Stich he would have nothing to do with the action. Click here for more details of the Guerrini role in these activities. Eventually over a dozen lawyers became involved in the actions against the former federal agent, even though they knew that prior legal schemes had stripped him of all assets and that he was literally judgment-proof as a result. Although Collins knew that federal judges had seized all of Stich's assets and that he had none to seize, tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees were spent to continue the action, solely to seize the books that would have no value to them. The California lawyers were Irwin J. Eskanos and Barry Adler of Concord, California. The same California judicial system that had played key roles against Stich in unison with a CIA-front law firm, then refused to recognize California law that barred the filing, including Stich's protection under the SLAPP doctrine. That doctrine provides defense against lawsuits seeking to retaliate against people exposing corruption, including corruption in government offices. In this case, the 3,000 deaths on 9/11 were only one-day's consequences of the corruption. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Among the defenses Stich filed, under California law, was a defense against the default judgment from South Carolina being entered as a local judgment in California. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Initial defense in California courts at Martinez, California. April 14, 2002. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Reply to the deceptive brief filed by the Eskanos and Adler law firm. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) A description of the legal scheme is found in a lawsuit filed in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. March 28, 2002. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Another link describing the legal tactics by the Smith and Collins lawyers, using a possible wife-murdered in the scheme. RICO Violations by Lawyers, Judges & DOJ Personnel, Acting in a Conspiracy A quick thumbnail overview of the RICO violations that involved lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges, perpetrating parallel multiple legal schemes to block the reporting of deadly criminal activities, and retaliation for attempting to make such reports: Retaliation while a federal aviation safety agent seeking to report corrupt and criminal activities related to several recent airline disasters. The results of the deep-seated corruption and retaliation was a continuation of airline disasters and deaths. Initial legal scheme carried out by the CIA front San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross and their lawyers. The result was massive personal harm and huge financial losses. The intent of the plot was to strip the former federal agent, Rodney Stich, of the assets that they knew funded his exposure activities. California judges joined the scheme, issuing unlawful and unconstitutional orders, without jurisdiction, violating blocks of California and federal laws and constitutional protections, during a six year period that caused millions of dollars in damages. Federal judges repeatedly blocked the former federal agent from reporting the criminal activities that he and a group of other former government agents had discovered during their official duties. Their actions as part of a RICO scheme resulted in great harm in the areas affected by the misconduct. In the aviation arena, the harm was continuing the linked airline disastersincluding continuation of the 50 years of airline hijackings that were easily prevented. Federal judges issued a series of unlawful and unconstitutional orders permanently barring, solely for Stich, the legal and constitutional right to access federal courts for federal issues. Reporting criminal acts to a federal judge was one of the issues that they blocked, thereby violating the federal crime reporting statute. Their actions constituted criminal acts under obstruction of justice statutes. As the former federal agent sought to report additional areas of corruption that he was discovered from other former government agents, Department of Justice lawyers and federal judges charged him with criminal contempt of court, denied him a jury trial, and sentenced him to six months in federal prison. These were federal crimes for retaliating against a former federal agent, witness, and informant. While in prison, federal judges, federal trustees, and the CIA-front law firm, seized and liquidated Stich's $10 in assets, knowing that these were the assets that funded his exposure of the deadly corruption he sought to report. The seizure orders were void orders under Supreme Court decisions, on that basis that they were ordered without a hearing, without a notice of hearing, and without legal cause. Stripped of his assets, homeless for a period of time, other lawyers joined the scheme, including the South Carolina law firm of Smith and Collins. Lawyers and Judges as Enablers In Many American Tragedies One of the most unrecognized causes of most of the nation's prior tragedies is the ripple effect, sometimes called the "butterfly effect." For simplicity, let's look at the events of 9/11 and the 3,000 people who were horribly killed, and look at the many people who hold a complicity role in those events: The people with the legal responsibility for preventing airliners from being hijacked are the people in the government's aviation safety offices: the FAA. This area has been carefully avoided during congressional hearings and by the 9/11 Commission members. This is one of the key areas of FAA corruption that Stich sought to report, for which lawyers and judges joined together to halt Stich's exposure actions and to retaliate against him for attempting to make such reports. All of them committed criminal acts that were involved in thousands of deaths, in only one of the affected areas! Secondary responsibilities for the 9/11 hijackings were with the FBI-DOJ and CIA. Although the 9/11 Commission blamed them for neglect, they covered up for the criminal culture in these two groups. It was the corrupt culture in the FBI-DOJ that blocked individual agents from completing their investigations of the terrorists. It was the corrupt CIA culture that devoted more time to their corrupt actions that were crimes against the United States than they spent in trying to find intelligence relating to the scheme to hijack U.S. airliners. Consequences Enabled to Occur By Documented Acts of Multiple Enablers The following are some of the prior and continuing national events made possible by a hoard of enablers. The numerous people and groups meeting the definition of enablers have control of key segments of the government and news distribution, insuring that the public will never know. TWA Flight 800 Two unpublicized events made possible the downing of TWA Flight 800, as disclosed in the books, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia. These events are addressed in letters that were sent by former federal agent Rodney Stich, including the following: These were the following: Most of the above catastrophic events occurred on the program for which FAA air carrier operations inspector Rodney Stich had been given the assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history. Pictures of many other crashes are not shown. The continuation of the culture of corruption−and the continuation of the cover-ups−made many people and groups enablers of many subsequent airline disasters. The following aviation disasters occurred after forewarned information of the terrorist attacks were given to FBI agents by a mole inside a key al Qaeda cell: TWA Flight 800, departing a New York City airport was downed, shortly thereafter. Strong Suspicion of Terrorist Act. See the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries. This link provides information on 100 surface-to-air missiles being made available to Middle East terrorists about one year before the downing of TWA Flight 800; the rejection of the missiles by FBI-CIA personnel, and the letters written by former federal agent Rodney Stich to members of Congress seeking to prevent the transfer of the missiles. No response−followed by the missile downing of TWA Flight 800. Followed by the need for the standard cover-up to protect high-level government personnel. Additional FBI Enablers To Downing of TWA Flight 800 In a recent book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia, details are given of how a Mafia soldier acted as a mole inside the al Qaeda cell headed by Ramzi Yousef, who directed the earlier bombing of the World Trade Center and had plans to simultaneously bomb 11 U.S. airliners departing Far East locations. The advance warnings were disregarded by high FBI-DOJ personnel who sacrificed the lives that would be lost so as to protect personnel in the Department of Justice. Very sensitive information, that would also play a role in ignoring the warnings of planned terrorist attacks on other U.S. targets. That cover-up enabled to occur approximately 4,000 deaths as the forewarned terrorist attacks occurred. See also: Sampling of letters reporting the relationship between FBI-DOJ cover-ups and successful terrorist attacks. The hijackings of U.S. airliners occurring on September 11, 2001.September 11, 2001 Forewarned Terrorist Attacks Details about the FBI-DOJ cover-ups and the contacts between the al Qaeda operative and Gregory Scarpa Jr. can be found in the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia, available in print and e-book formats from amazon.com (and in Kimble) and other sources. The decades of preventable airline disasters and their enablers are described and documented in the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries. More information on the enablers to those catastrophic events: 9/11 index. Information provided by a mole inside the al Qaeda cell headed by infamous Ramzi Yousef on the planned terrorist attack, information that was then "deep-sixth" by high-level FBI-DOJ personnel. Absence of preventative measures resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths. Comparative blame for 9/11 between Afghanistan, Iraq, and the documented conduct of enablers in the United States. 9/11 enablers. American Airlines Flight 587 (Strong indications of Terrorist Action) Consequences of Corruption And Cover-Ups Not Limited to Aviation Corruption of the type described at this site does not occur in a vacuum. High-level corruption in one area is simply one tentacle of a widespread culture of corruption. And the consequences of that corruption−and the endemic cover-ups−have consequences in other areas. The culture of corruption affects the people and the nation in many other ways, That includes the latest series of financial frauds that has occurred in the housing and financial sectors. Also, the effect of the endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups−major parts of the culture in the United States−that enablers successful terrorist attacks upon U.S. interests. Forewarned Bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania List of Documentary Books On Endemic Corruption in the United States More information about these books by clicking here. Sampling of prior books reviews. Sampling of reader comments. Download DVD videos from amazon to rent or to buy, onto your Windows XP operation system computer. For more information, click here. To order a DVD video download, click on the following amazon link: Cell phone and service deal from amazon.com, with 30-day return if not satisfied. 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