(( ping ))
"Optical illusion." Is that bureaucratese for "swamp gas?"
I used Flight 800 in my own book as an example of how the fedgov can "manage" an inconvenient crisis using a hand-picked "blue ribbon panel" (which will be certain to ignore the facts which don't fit the precooked result).
The Vince Foster case was another example of this scandal management at work. In fact, the list is quite long: Waco, OKC, etc.