[Swordmaker]

Apparently their journalistic ethics may have been trumped by the liberal ethics to protect a Democrat President's re-election chances...

[DB]

I need a better explanation of:

"Despite a series of phone calls, Sanders could not persuade the technician to hand over the tape. His fear was palpable enough, however, to convince Sanders that he was telling the truth."

The video only needs be made public and then the technician has nothing to fear. He is only in danger if he keeps it quiet while keeping the tape. That's why this claim makes little sense in this article.

[Lancey Howard]

TWA FLIGHT 800 is the topic of Nelson DeMille's new novel.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Bump for later this morning; back to sleep, cats are fed.

[Badray]

If any of you are looking for a great political thriller, Jack Cashill has written it. It is called:

2006: The Chautauqua Rising

For more info, go here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0967235715/103-9483700-2527036

When I got to about page 30, I couldn't put the book down. It's fiction and Algore is in his second term as president. Lots of twists and turns and suspense. Everyone that I know who read it, loved it.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Quix]

Thanks.

There has been hideousness for centuries on the part of even the best governments.

However, during Dillbo and Shrillery's reign, new lows were reached in the land of the fadingly free.

[ovrtaxt]

OKC-911 CONNECTION ALERT. Please let me know by freepmail if you want to be put on or taken off this list. Thanks.

Jack Cashill ping! A snapshot of the media's role in the sticky web of government coverups.

[ppaul]

How soon we forget.....

[SAMS]

Was the missile launched from the grassy knoll?

[kcvl]

late on the night of the crash, editors at MSNBC had the tape on their monitors when "three men in suits" came to their editing suites, removed the tape, and threatened the editors with serious consequences if they ever revealed its contents

That does not surprise me in the least. That is BILL CLINTON'S MO! Clinton was THE PERSON most helped by covering up TWA 800.

[gaijin]

bump.

[Brian Allen]

<< Was the missile launched from the grassy knoll? >>

Of course it was.

/sarcasm

The loss of the Boeing B-747 which operated as Trans World Airline Flight TW-800 JFK-CDG on On July 18 1996 was caused by a walked-on terrorist bomb.

There was coverup and it was master-minded within the Cli'ton/Gore administration, overseen by Gore and effected by the FBI, FAA and NTSB.

There was no missile and the fact one is being talked about nine years after the atrocity of that day speaks only to the efficacy of the mis-and-dis-information-manipulated cover-up -- for which the Cli'ton Gang was well compensated -- and because of which responsibility for the even-worse atrocities of September 11 2001 sheets home to the Cli'ton Gang and to the airlines that -- to save the money and incovenience they would have incurred in bringing security up to standard -- paid them off.

[Sharkfish]

Forgive me for the lack of depth in my analysis, because I haven't followed this issue closely. But this is how I see it.

There sure are a lot of unanswered questions out there regarding TWA 800. Assuming there is more to the story, WHY hasn't it been revealed, either at the time or with the change in administration.

Consider the explanations:

1) U.S. military shot it down - If this is revealed, what is the result? Horrible accident, very sorry, compensation, new safeguards, etc.

2) Terrorists shot it down or bombed it - Sorry we didn't reveal this because of National Security, didn't want a panic or cancellation of Olympics, etc. - If revealed now, the result: You see the terrorists were at work even then, we need to stop them, etc. Yes there would be political ramifications for not revealing this, and blame for not doing more to prevent 911, but that administration is gone.

Even if the reason for the Clinton administration cover-up was to cover up the cover-up, why did the Bush administration not reveal what it found out on taking office? So it could further advance a cover-up?

So right now, unless more real evidence, such as the video in question, comes out, the most reasonable explanation is the official one - accident. But you gotta keep digging.

[MoodyBlu]

Michael? Michael Rivero, is that you? The Navy did it and Boeing is hiding it all, right?

MoodyBlu

[Final Authority]

If there was no concern of IR seeking missiles shooting down commercial aircraft then why would such a study be commissioned as this was, http://www.rand.org/news/press.05/01.25b.html . See my post above. I think the government is quite concerned. BTW, there is constant security patrols in Boston harbor and they make contact with every water craft in the harbor. They interview the people or even board the craft. It is because the runways are adjacent to and flight paths go right over harbor. They are not looking for somebody with a rifle, they are preventing terrorists with shoulder fired missiles.

[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