[NativeNewYorker]

I do appreciate that they lied to protect the flying public from panicking

NO!!

TWA 800's successful shootdown took place only weeks before DIRT Ex-POTUS' re-election. Acknowledging a terror horror on US soil that close to the balloting wouldn't ensured not only a Xlinton loss, but the end of Democratic rule for a generation.

They HAD to manufacture a myth about "central fuel tanks". That they were able to do this despite hundreds of witnesses terrifies me to this day.

[Hatteras]

Flight 800 was shot down in July. The election was in November. Hardly "a few weeks"

[philosofy123]

I have the same theory. However, I cannot explain why W Bush chooses to cover up for Clinton, instead of uncovering this news and put Clinton in the can?

[Alberta's Child]

The crash of Flight 800 took place four months before the 1996 election.

[Lowell]

What they saw was swamp gasses rising up into the atmosphere. NOW PLEASE LOOK AT THE RED LIGHT AT THE END OF MY PEN.

[sphinx]

TWA 800's successful shootdown took place only weeks before DIRT Ex-POTUS' re-election. Acknowledging a terror horror on US soil that close to the balloting wouldn't ensured not only a Xlinton loss, but the end of Democratic rule for a generation.

Do you think a terrorist attack a few weeks before the election would ensure Bush's defeat?