[demkicker]

I'm interested in everyone's theory as to why there was such a massive coverup and who ordered it?

I think this was a terrorist attack covered up by high level gubment officials. Clinton (its the economy, stupid) couldn't have the sheeple too afraid to fly. The prevailing attitude was nothing to see here, keep flying.

[mfulstone]

I'm interested in everyone's theory as to why there was such a massive coverup and who ordered it?

Clinton didn't want to rock Islam's boat and risk more terrorism. He was the ultimate appeaser. That's also why he wouldn't let the FBI pursue the Middle East connection to the OKC/Murrah bldg bombing.

[epluribus_2]

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.

[not-an-ostrich]

Since no foreign terrorist group took responsibility, which they are always eager to do, I think it was home-grown terrorists or military accident. As to why the cover up, I don't have a clue.

[Cboldt]

The prevailing attitude was nothing to see here, keep flying.

That will be the prevailing attitude until express notice otherwise. "Nothing to see here, move along."

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[ladyinred]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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?