MSNBC and the missing videotape: Jack Cashill examines network's role in TWA Flight 800 cover-up

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 | Jack Cashill

[BluH2o]

The fuel-tank theory of the crash was also disavowed by James Kallstrom, who headed the FBI investigation.

Kallstrom who headed up the FBI investigation of TWA Flt. 800 initially approached it as an act of sabotage. He was summoned to Washington for consultation and subsequently began pushing the exploding center fuel tank theory. To my knowledge that is still the theory he stands by today.

[ml/nj]

why did the Bush administration not reveal what it found out on taking office?

Bush hasn't even admitted that the Clintonistas took all the W's off the computer keyboards. And you want him to spill the beans on TWA 800? Fat chance!

ML/NJ

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

I was looking at TWA-800 photos...

Why do the crash re-assemble photos have numerous windows in the upper deck and photos taken a month before only have three windows in the upper deck?

[jan in Colorado]

Ping for later.

[usurper]

I do not believe the US Government could keep a missile attack a secret. The government leaks like a sieve. POTOS can’t ever get a hummer in his own office without the world knowing about it.

I don’t buy the missile theory at it would be too hard to cover up. However a shoe bomber over the center fuel tank would explain a lot of things and only a small number of people would has access to the information.

[WestCoastGal]

ping

[John O]

It was a missle.

See:

Downside Legacy Research Project: TWA 800 Hypothesis

[UCANSEE2]

If so, wouldn't the explosion have caused the outer shell of the plane to rip OUTWARDS?

If so, how did a carryon suicide bomber get hundreds of people to see a missile's fiery trail?

If so, how did a carryon suicide bomber get a helicopter pilot and jet airliner pilots to see a missile track and hit the TWA800?

[UCANSEE2]

So, are you saying it was an accident caused by the CWT explosion?

[StolarStorm]

It was a test of the patriot II. The plane was off course a little, and was a brighter target than the drone which was the intended target. Coverup was necessary to avoid bringing down one of the largest defense contactors. Actually, I'm glad for the coverup and I'm glad no one will take my post seriously.

[StolarStorm]

You're right, it would be impossible to keep it all that secret. Just like most "secrets", they exist out in the open, but aren't believed. There are thousands and thousands that know the truth, but without actual factual and concrete proof, it means nothing.

You can't keep something like this secret but you can cloud it.

[to_zion]

Of you Google the quote that should help. Here's a direct link to where I got the quote from:

http://www.subversiveelement.com/ConspiracyTWA.html

[Sharkfish]

I don't know what "CWT" is. I'm saying there is insufficient proof at this time to reject the official version of it as a center fuel tank explosion caused by igniting fuel vapors. Everything else is hearsay, but because there is a whole lot of it, further investigation is warranted.

[UCANSEE2]

Allow me.

CWT is the acronym for CENTER WING TANK.

The official finding was that the CWT exploded due to ignition of the leftover fuel by some point source. (so this isn't exactly a lie, if you consider the point source may have been ROCKET).

As far as reason to reject the official findings, here is one. If this had been true, the FAA would have grounded every boeing aircraft of that make/model. They didn't.

[ml/nj]

Here's a direct link to where I got the quote from ...

And the quote is unsourced there, unlike most of the the other quotes at that page.

I still think it's bogus.

ML/NJ

[zerosix]

The lives of James Sanders (retired policeman from California) and wife Liz (former TWA trainer, who obtained fabric of seat from TWA 800 sent to outside lab for testing - proof positive that substance was connected to explosives)have been ruined for all practical purposes.

Pleas for Presidential Pardons should be demanded from the Bush Administration, so that they can at least earn more than substandard incomes to support themselves. Sanders, received disability retirement from former department but Liz was and is very employable but unable to seek meaningful work of any substantial kind due to her felony conviction.

Clinton/FBI and Justice Departments hounded these wonderful people, who were merely seeking truth in tragedy, which involved not only regular travelers but TWA staff as well as many other employees and families of TWA. Clinton Administration needed to shut this investigation down quickly or no second term.

[cmsgop]

I think I read that transcript on the net of that meeting, and shortly after that I could not find it again. It had testimony of the pilot that had just landed the plane at JFK right before the tragic takeoff. It was very convincing.

[Erik Latranyi]

I do not believe the US Government could keep a missile attack a secret. The government leaks like a sieve. POTOS can’t ever get a hummer in his own office without the world knowing about it. I don’t buy the missile theory at it would be too hard to cover up. However a shoe bomber over the center fuel tank would explain a lot of things and only a small number of people would has access to the information.

Your post is a perfect example of why this investigation has not moved forward --- the opposition to the gov't theory cannot coalesce around an opposing theory.

I live in Williamsport, PA and have met many parents of the Montoursville French Club lost on TWA 800. These parents still have a gnawing in their guts about what happened to their sons and daughters.

[Sharkfish]

Apr 29, 2001 AirWise News

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered airlines to shut off fuel pumps on Boeing 737s when there is a low level of fuel remaining in the center tank.

Fuel tanks have been blamed for an explosion last month aboard a Thai Airways Boeing 737 and for the 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800.

The FAA's action on Friday comes four years after the National Transportation Safety Board made a similar recommendation following the TWA Flight 800 crash.

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see rest of story here

And the foregoing is precisely my point. For every question raised, there has been an "official" answer. Until you can PROVE missile or bomb all this is all just suspicion.

[softengine]

Much thanks for the ping on this.
~ se