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Haberman on Port Authority verdict

New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman, on a jury’s determination last week (Oct. 27, Oct. 29) that negligent security on the part of New York’s Port Authority was more responsible for the damage from the first (1993) bombing at the World Trade Center than the Islamist terrorists themselves: Through some mathematical wizardry, the jurors held […]

New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman, on a jury’s determination last week (Oct. 27, Oct. 29) that negligent security on the part of New York’s Port Authority was more responsible for the damage from the first (1993) bombing at the World Trade Center than the Islamist terrorists themselves:

Through some mathematical wizardry, the jurors held the authority to be 68 percent at fault, the murderers only 32 percent.

Poor terrorists! Guess they couldn’t help themselves. They must have felt they had no choice but to take advantage of a security lapse.

(“Sometimes Big Brother Is a Protector”, Nov. 1, immured behind Times Select wall).

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  • I would love to read how the jury came up with this absurd ruling. Did they know that the percentages they assigned would make Americans liable to pay the expenses of Islamic terrorism?

    • By tyree