TWA FLIGHT 800: Pilot takes NTSB to court: CIA lied, expert eyewitnesses come forward

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, December 12, 2003 | Jack Cashill

[demkicker]

Don't forget this was just days before the Olympics. Could have cancelled them, leaving the US in fear and disgrace in an election year no less.

Time has erased this from my memory, but I believe you're onto something. Publicly admitting it was a terrorist attack could have been an economic disaster, and we all know how everything had to always appear picture perfect in the Clinton administration.

[demkicker]

I agree with you. Clinton covered it up, took money from the airlines and kept us all fat and sassy. Why else would he commission an airline safety study right after flight 800 to find ways to protect the airlines from terrorism?

Read First Strike, TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America, by Cashill and Sanders and see what you think.

< Thanks for your insight. This was definitely a terrorist attack, IMO. It serves no purpose for the government to continue this charade. We can handle the truth.

[MississippiMan]

One reason to cover this up is that it wasn't a terrorist strike but some kind of military exercise gone horribly wrong.

I don't think the Clintons would've gone along with a cover-up to protect the military.

MM

[Palladin]

A big bump for those who missed this article.

[CedarDave]

Another recent thread here:

Trailing the Truth About TWA Tragedy

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Whatever one thinks of the theories here there were suspicious statements made by Stephanopolous and others in the Clinton administration regarding this incident.

[ggekko]

Ther are two main reasons the CLintonistas covered up what was undoubtedly a terrorist attack on TWA flight 800 by a group with strong connections to Iraqi intelligence:

1) The financial viability of the airlines was
was very much a concern with the revelation
of a terror attack possibly acting as a
negative catalyst on an industry struggling to
recover from a long recessionary period,

2) Clinton's appeasement-by-law-enforcement policy
which always sought to reduce state sponsored
terror activities to relatively low level
criminal conspiracies which should be addressed
by the FBI rather than DOD, the CIA and the
State Deparment.

The obstinate obtuseness of the Clinton administration to connect the dots between the Khobar tower bobmbing, the attack on the embassy in Africa, the bombing of the USS Cole and the downing of TWA flight 800 was a form of craven appeasement that led directly to the 9/11 plane attacks. Rich Lowry's new book details this failed Clinton policy with nauseating exactness.

[Palladin]

Very insightful.

Is Kahlstrom (sp) a Clintonista?

He didn't do a very good job of investigating and rooting out the terrorists after the first WTC bombing.

Then he was put in charge of investigating TWA 800. Again, a not-so-thorough investigation.

I don't trust this man.

[demkicker]

Is Kahlstrom (sp) a Clintonista? He didn't do a very good job of investigating and rooting out the terrorists after the first WTC bombing. Then he was put in charge of investigating TWA 800. Again, a not-so-thorough investigation. I don't trust this man.

I don't trust him either. He's a liar.

[Eva]

Osama never took credit prior to 9/11, it was part of his MO. Bin Laden seemed to think that the terror effect was greater if the perpetrator was unknown.

[exit82]

I never trusted him after he changed his opinion on what caused the TWA 800 disaster to the "politically correct" version.

Confirmation of his perfidy was when he retired after 30 years with the FBI and became an "investment banker". Can you say "payoff"?

I knew you could.

[doug from upland]

I said the same thing when it happened. It was the campaign of 1996. If Clinton admitted what happened, it could have done immediate economic damage. He would have also had to pay more attention to terrorists than blue thongs. He had no time for terrorism.

[microgood]

If one sailor would leak it, you can bet a hundred would.

I agree but this could have been done with only a few sailors knowing about it. All those systems are automated and controlled by a few. Even the missiles are automatically loaded and at night noone is out in the weather areas. Those guys in CIC have secret clearances and that could be used against them.

[Political Junkie Too]

From the open letter to Boeing and TWA by Cmdr. William S. Donaldson:

1. The Administration knew that in 1996, surrogates from rogue states had access to MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems) or shoulder-fired missiles in mid-eastern weapons bazaars. $5,000 would acquire the least capable model, the Russian SA-7. $50,000 would buy the most capable, the Chinese Vanguard, a deadly new missile upgraded from US Stinger technology transferred to the Chinese in the early 90's. Superior to the Stinger, this missile has a much longer range. The Administration also knew Iran had a limited number of US Stinger missiles in inventory.

2. The Administration was aware that, worldwide, MANPADS missiles had already claimed 26 civil transport aircraft and was only a matter of time before a U.S. Flag carrier would be targeted and hit. They knew the Administration had dodged a bullet in 1994 when Maryland State Police found a fully armed French Mistral MANPADS missile ready to fire on its tripod directly under a busy northeastern air route.

3. In response to sanctions unilaterally levied against Iran by Mr. Clinton in 1995, Iranian surrogate's car bombed US troops in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and later smuggled MANPADS missiles into the US from across the Canadian border. Iranian officials warned the Administration that they considered enactment of the Iran/Libya Sanctions Act tantamount to an act of war!

4. When Mr. Clinton signed the Iran, Libya Sanctions Act of 1996, a decision was made by the Iranian Supreme Council to approve attacks on major American targets. Terrorist surrogate groups from nine countries were summoned to Tehran to meet with Iranian officials in June of 1996. Later that month, a huge truck bomb was deployed against the US Air Force barracks complex at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Three weeks later, TWA Flight 800 was shot down only hours after an explicit warning of an attack was received in London and Washington that taunted the President.

5. The White House, the CIA and the FBI were aware of the threat and they knew preventing that attack was their primary responsibility.

6. We can show the Administration anticipated incorrectly that, if the missiles were used, they would be targeted against Olympic air traffic landing or taking off in the Atlanta area.

7. We can provide testimony that immediately after Flight 800 was shot down, Mr. Clinton called an FBI command post supporting the Olympics and informed them Flight 800 was downed with shoulder-fired missiles.

8. The White House, the CIA and the FBI political leadership have waged an unrelenting disinformation campaign from the onset. This has ranged from the White House spokesman stating, "Anyone in government that says this was a missile only has half a brain", and to the CIA cartoon that libeled hundreds of eyewitnesses.

-PJ

[demkicker]

I never trusted him (Kahlstrom) after he changed his opinion on what caused the TWA 800 disaster to the "politically correct" version.

Confirmation of his perfidy was when he retired after 30 years with the FBI and became an "investment banker". Can you say "payoff"?

I knew you could.

Bingo, you nailed it!

[demkicker]

I said the same thing when it happened. It was the campaign of 1996. If Clinton admitted what happened, it could have done immediate economic damage. He would have also had to pay more attention to terrorists than blue thongs. He had no time for terrorism.

No one tells it as straight as you, doug. GREAT analysis!

[MHGinTN]

I'm interested in everyone's theory as to why there was such a massive coverup and who ordered it? SinkEmperor didn't want to deal with this 'incident' from the truthful side of the implications, so his CIA went to work. Is that so hard to grasp?

[ggekko]

Kahlstrom was silenced by his higer ups at the FBI. During the initial phase of the investigation Kahl;strom was proceeding under the assumption that the crash was the result of a possible terrorist attack. He was gradually elbowed aside and control was ceded to the NTSB. Kahlstrom was treated fairly well in Jack Cahsman's expose but the fact that he didn't resign in protest shows that he was more loyal to the FBI rather than the Amrican people.

In tha case of the WTC bombing Kahlstrom was connecting the dots in begiining of the investigation but was stymied by the Justice Department which refused to consider the connections of the WTC bombers to known terrorist networks.

It is not clear what good it would have done for Kahlstrom to resign in protest as a compliant, courtier media and Janet Reno's Justice department were clearly negiglent in failing to pursue the investigations in these cases and their obvious connections to the terror networks.

Kahlstrom seems to be more or less apolitical but ultimately the policy of appeasing terrorism through a policy of deliberate obstuseness must be laid at the doorstep of Bill Clinton and his lackey Janety Reno.