"There were changes from the original documents to the documents in the report," Bill Manning a member of the steering committee of Communities Against Runway Expansion (CARE) tells GlobeSt.com. "They rewrote it [the report] to be much rosier. The final environmental impact statement was based on information that was rewritten." Manning contends that the final report states that a new runway will reduce the delay capability ten times more than it actually can.

Jose Juves, a spokesperson for Massport, denies that the agency made any changes to the report. "It was an FAA report," he tells GlobeSt.com. "We had no access to the report and we couldn't have made any changes." Calls to FAA spokesperson Laura Brown were not

Manning says that his group will use this information in court on Jan. 21 when Massport seeks to have the 28-year-old injunction on the runway lifted. "This gives us more ammunition," he says. The group is also going to federal court to challenge the FAA's approval of the runway. "The environmental analysis in both cases was not adequate," says Manning.

Manning notes that CARE wants federal intervention to have the complete Mitre report released. He says that the group also wrote a letter to Governor Mitt Romney asking him to put pressure on Massport to call the runway off.