The Best Laid Plans...A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York's new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin.
Mike Fleming handed the documents - marked "Secure Document - Confidential" in to the New York Post newspaper.
The Freedom Tower is being built at Ground Zero, to replace the World Trade Centre towers destroyed on 9/11.
A spokeswoman apologised for the security breach and said that anyone found responsible would be liable for "serious disciplinary action".
'Game plan'
Mr Fleming said he was concerned that the documents might fall into the wrong hands.
"I was outraged, because this is priceless," he told the New York Post.
"This could have ended up on eBay or gotten to al-Qaeda."
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Last week the gullible Mark Steyn was
busted by
Media Watch for basing a column on Johnelle Bryant's crazy story about
being visited by Mohammed Atta in early May 2000. She said that Atta
threatened to cut her throat and wanted a loan to buy a crop duster.
Unfortunately for her story, Atta wasn't…
Source.
In a rare late night statement in the East Room of The White House Sunday, President Obama announced that Bin Laden is dead.
This historic announcement raises more than questions than answers.
How will this affect terrorism abroad and in the US?
How will this affect our relationship with…
If you demolish two gigantic buildings full of hazardous materials like asbestos and acrid concrete products it isn't a surprise you would produce a hazardous environment. So it was no surprise the air around the World Trade Center was dangerous to breathe after 9/11, although we were told…
This is a piece I wrote in 2011, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Originally posted here.)
I believe that the sauntering I refer to has diminished. But instead of sauntering, our local and county police departments seem to have taken up a different hobby: Shooting unarmed people of…
"This could have ended up on eBay or gotten to al-Qaeda."
In which case they'd have been able to identify a small thermal exhaust port...
This is awfully considerate for someone who is homeless. The idea of selling the plans on ebay himself apparently didn't occur to him. At the very least he should have held out for ransom, er I mean a reward
And what exactly would al-Qaeda do with these plans? Infiltrate the construction team and leave out the cornerstone?
jjberg: Don't you know that all evil plots start out with a bunch of evil guys looking at the plants? And they also have to figure out the timing of the guards and stuff.
The guards change shift at 0300, that's when we strike the south-east Fern!
Sorry, it should have been "looking through the plants, at the guards, having carefully reviewed the plans...."