Homeland Security spokeswoman Rachel Sunbarger said intelligence led the agencies to detain the flight last night, but an FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press the incident did not involve terrorism.
Passenger David Litwick told WJLA-TV in Washington that he and his wife were not questioned, but at least one other passenger was. Litwick said four FBI agents spoke to a woman who appeared to be from the Middle East, repeatedly asking her why she was not travelling with her husband.
"The government of Mexico made the decision to cancel Aeromexico Flight 490 after the US government shared threat information with the Mexican government," Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.
Previous reports said the plane turned around in mid air, but Roehrkasse and Mexican officials said it never took off. Roehrkasse denied that the US government told Mexico it would refuse the plane landing rights.

On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.
mr ed - this article has apparently been scrubbed from newsweek

Old Prescott was convicted by the U.S. government under the Trading With The Enemy Act in 1942 and fined one million dollars. Brown Brothers Harriman’s affiliate Union Bank- of which Prescott was director- invested huge sums of money into Thyssen Steel, the backbone of Nazi steel production.
John Hinckley Jr.’s family donated substantial amounts of money to Bush during the 1980 primaries when he ran for President
Are we to believe that the Bush family was close with the bin Ladens and the Hinckleys and that both families had a rogue member whose violent acts just happened to help advance the political careers of Bushes?
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely… but in the case of the Bush family - corruption empowers, and absolute corruption empowers absolutely!

Apparently, Congressman Larry MacDonald spoke out against it, but his plane crashed. But it wasn't just any plane it was the infamous Korean Air Lines 007, the flight that was shot down by Soviet fighters as it unexplainably veered into Soviet airspace.
Again, no way to prove it, but we should ask ourselves why political plane crashes have come to be known, euphemistically, as the "Wellstone Special"? If one were to count the number of fatal plane crashes that befell people connected to our four most recent Presidents, you start to toy with another unfathomable coincidence.

The Carlyle Group [2] [3 - most recent] is basically a collection of the heaviest of heavyweight political insiders who buy failing military contractors at bargain basement prices. The reason why they buy the failing discounted companies is because the Defense Department appropriations guidelines requires that companies be in existence for a certain time before being allowed to enter government contracts.

Continuing his Texas tradition, Bush was the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner while being the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. In response to the 9/11 attacks, he signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history, created the largest Government bureaucracy since Roosevelt while slowly dismantling Roosevelt's contributions, and had a prepared draft of the Patriot Act ready to sign into law, giving the Executive Office the ability to wage war, appropriate funds, and control social freedoms in a an emperor-like manner.

Americans are already widely regarded by social critics to be the most lied to population on earth
Let's just face it and be honest with each other, the news is not news at all but carefully constructed distraction. It's just that simple. Ditto for the major public opinion polls. Nothing is left too chance.
Former Director of the CIA William Colby was quoted as saying, "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." And George Herbert Walker Bush ran the CIA for a decade. (post script: Colby died in a "boating accident" during the Noriega investigations).
Public opinion polls the day before the September 11th attacks all said that Bush was in serious political trouble. I have a copy of Newsweek dated that week. The two lead stories: "Condit: What did he know?" and "Where Has The Budget Surplus Gone?" Already the questions were beginning.

Pearl Harbor? Evidence surfaced proving Roosevelt knew of the attack. Later we would do the same thing in Vietnam in what was known as the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident." The military set up it's own ship to get bombed by the Vietnamese so we could invade
And recently, documents were unearthed showing that in 1961 the Joint Chiefs of Staff devised detailed plans to kill Americans and blame it on Cuba as a pretext for invasion. By the time these plans reached Kennedy's desk, Kennedy killed them straightaway. See the actual document for yourself [Operation Northwoods].
So what about the first Gulf War? Evidence clasims that George H.W. Bush relayed information to Saddam Hussein in July of 1990 through US Ambassador April Glaspie that the US "…has no opinion on your border dispute with Kuwait…" and would not intervene if he invaded Kuwait.
Meanwhile the Federal government is telling it's people, who pony up roughly $5000 a piece each year for their wars, that they have no money for health care, education, transportation, environmental concerns, social services, or retirement security.

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Hatfield also says that when he asked Scott McClellan to comment on the allegation of a former Yale classmate of Bush's that the presidential hopeful was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and had his record expunged in exchange for community service at Project P.U.L.L., the Bush campaign spokesman said, sotto voce, "Oh, shit," followed by, "No comment."
McClellan denies that the exchange ever occurred. "I never spoke to the guy, and I'm not aware that anyone at the campaign has spoken to him," he told Salon News.

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"I'm not getting all bent to that bag of worms," she clucked. "You know Texas has some killer bees here? I don't want to be one of them. I'm not gonna be one of them, and I'm not getting all bent to this political fight."

"I'm sure there are people who was with him regular, there are people who could talk to you," continued the director, who also serves as a Texas state executive committee woman, precinct judge and treasurer of the Harris County Democratic Party, "but Madge Bush is not gonna talk to you."

Then she said: "Mr. Bush did his welfare reform from my office. That I will attest to."

"What do you mean by that?" we asked.

"When he announced what his welfare-reform program was going to be [during his gubernatorial campaign]," Bush said, "he did it from my office."

"That's the only time he's ever been there then?"

"I didn't say that. I'm not even getting off into what you're asking me about ... I've been called by over 50 people and I can't help it because I've been on this job for a long time and I know just about everybody in Houston and all the leaders in Texas. I'm not getting off into anything about George except he's the governor of Texas and during his campaign he did his welfare reform at my office. That's all I'm gonna say about George W. Bush."


An honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he received bachelor and law degrees there. Now residing in Gulfport, Mississippi with his wife Cecile, he has five sons and a daughter. Two of Barr’s sons hold highly visible government offices: Scott McClellan is the White House Press Secretary and Mark McClellan is the Director of the Food & Drug Administration.
mred - well thats pretty curious

What rules should govern the commercial activities of former President Bush; or, for that matter, former British prime minister, John Major; or former South Korean prime minister, Park Tae-joon—all of whom have taken the Carlyle nickel?

As recounted by associates and analysts, Mr. Khodorkovsky failed to consult the Kremlin adequately about a deal that would cede substantial control over a strategic Russian resource to a foreign company, and an American one at that.