CNN 2011-09-02

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And I think the NTSB has been frustrated¹ throughout the duration of this investigation² by the inadequacy³ of PG&E's record-keeping. What we found out in the investigation is that the pipe installation, the quality of the wells were inadequate⁴. And that could have been detected when the pipe was laid in the ground if they had properly inspected it or used the right, the right  techniques. And it could have been detected if they had hydrostatically tested the line, if they had done in-line inspections⁵, there were a lot of opportunities missed here by PG&E.

 

This 19-year-old was an executioner for Gaddafi's forces. She said that she was forced at gunpoint saying that there were Gaddafi's soldiers to her right, her left and behind her, telling her that she had to shoot rebels at nearly point-blank range. And she admitted that she shot eleven of them. She could hardly speak. Though, she was very halting and what she was saying, at time, she would just appear to be drifting off silence, almost paralyzed by the horror of what she says she was forced to do.

 

I had called and spoken with some of the folks at the studios yesterday. Based on what they told me, and what the Free Speech Coalition⁶ has said, it's an industry-wide moratorium⁷.  The Free Speech Coalition has said they expect to get results of that, the secondary testing of the individual who tested positive, within a week. So I think everybody is just sort of waiting to see those test results and then to decide about lifting the moratorium.

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