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Posted on 07/05/2005 5:57:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
The New York Times, NBC and other dominant media have destroyed the Constitution's Freedom of the Press. Today giant tears are shed at the New York Times because one of their own, Judith Miller, appears to be on the way to prison for up to 120-days because she nobly refused to give up a source. The Supreme Court recently ruled that she, as a journalist, must assist a federal government investigation when ordered to do so.
The First Amendment, in pertinent part, says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . .
"Abridging" means placing limits on. The Supreme Court ruled that these words must be interpreted from the perspective of the federal government. The Government's ability to use journalists as agents of the federal government when so desired cannot be abridged.
The American National Security State is supposed to grab all the power it can. Its mission is to project power. It is not entrusted with the mission of maintaining a healthy First Amendment Freedom of the Press. To the contrary, it is in the best interest of the National Security State to whittle, attack, whine and cry at every opportunity to turn dominant media into a tool by which federal propaganda is spewed across the nation twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
The Founding Fathers gave dominant media the mission of counterbalancing the State's natural inclination to destroy the Constitution. Dominant media, as envisioned, was to probe and question the National Security State, especially when it displeased the National Security State.
But that takes courage and a willingness to be called very bad names by National Security State propagandists. It means being leaned on by the Justice Department, snarled at by its biggest, meanest federal legal guns; careers threatened, wives intimidated. It means watching your Rolodex go up in smoke.
All those wonderful federal sources who spoon-fed you, the dominant media journalist, story after story for which you were praised and rewarded with even better stories – as long as you did not demand that officially sanctioned stories be backed up with actual documents and other provable facts.
These "sources" would never again be available to you if you ever crossed the Beast, the National Security State. You'd actually have to push away from your desk, get out of your chair, go out into the cold, cruel world, walk past your favorite pub and find sources.
Real sources, not the federal shills that made you a household name and provided a very comfortable living, feeding propaganda you knowingly and willingly placed into the collective mind of the masses. Now you would have to join those journalists you so despise and look down on – the "bottom-feeders," "conspiracy theorists," Internet journalists and other journalistic lowlifes who continually bang away at the National Security State.
So, when the tough stories appeared, stories like TWA Flight 800, you shuddered at the thought of challenging a very determined cover-up, even though you knew the federal propagandists were feeding you garbage. You shuddered and then folded, jumping into the warm, safe lap of the Beast, wagging your tail, whispering "feed me, feed me."
According to three media sources - one deep inside NBC on July 17, 1996, when missile-fire brought the giant 747 down - in the hours after TWA Flight 800 was shot down a bidding war ensued for a video showing missile-fire bringing down TWA Flight 800. The bidding went above $50,000, at which time, the Fox News team, New York, was blocked from further bidding. The video ended up in the hands of NBC, where it was confiscated by the FBI.
The head of the Fox News team in the field on Long Island was then approached by an American military officer who said there was a major screw-up, the White House had ordered a 48 hour "stand-down" while it decided how to handle this crisis. Dominant media had a decision to make. Significant evidence of missile-fire was already in hand. Much more was easily available. There were witnesses who watching TWA Flight 800 as it headed east toward Paris. They then watched as a missile approached and brought the plane down. They didn't see some mysterious light way off in the distance. They were not confused. They knew what they had seen.
We now know the FBI and CIA knew they witnessed missile-fire, according to documents recently unearthed through the Freedom of Information Act.
The New York Times would have had this vital information if it merely conducted an honest investigation. It did not. Instead, it allowed the FBI to feed it an approved storyline, complete with selected facts – a bomb brought the 747 down. A political decision was then made at the top of the Clinton administration. It was an election year. A criminal act might provoke the sleeping masses.
The lapdog New York Times might lose its role as the dominant media "investigative" team. The Beast could lose control of the crisis. Truth could conceivably prevail if the shills at the New York Times ceased running interference for the National Security State.
But it was not to be. Federal propagandists told the New York Times a criminal act did not bring down TWA Flight 800. All that explosive residue was from a dog training exercise. The New York Times did not interview the St. Louis Airport Police Officer who conducted the training a month before TWA Flight 800 crashed. He would have given the New York Times information proving beyond any doubt that the dog training exercise did not take place on the 747 that would later become TWA Flight 800.
If the New York Times had interviewed the pilots who were onboard the 747 at St. Louis during the entire time the dog training exercise took place, it would have quickly become apparent that the dog training took place on a 747 parked at the adjacent St. Louis Airport gate. Mere competence would have exposed the cover-up.
At that point courage would have been required. The New York Times had neither. It was the Beast's official lapdog.
In all probability, 9-11 would never have happened if the New York Times had merely done the job the Founding Fathers assigned. In the aftermath of TWA 800, with a fully informed citizenry, America's masses would have demanded real protection based on real facts, not federal propaganda.
We can reasonably infer that today's constitutional crisis, the Supreme Court's removal of the First Amendment's Freedom of the Press would not have occurred. The Supreme's are political creatures; dare we suggest political whores? Would they dare destroy this most vital portion of the First Amendment if they knew they were attacking journalism's junkyard dog?
The Supreme's knew they were destroying a National Security State lapdog that did not need or deserve special protection under the First Amendment.
Unfortunately, non dominant media journalists who do sally forth to battle the dreaded Beast now do so without any pretense of a constitutional amendment protecting them. And now the ultimate irony – New York Times reporter Judith Miller now gets to go to prison because of the failure of the New York Times to protect and defend the First Amendment's Freedom of the Press.
"The head of the Fox News team in the field on Long Island was then approached by an American military officer who said there was a major screw-up..."
"The military officer, gold braid shining, approached the Fox Executive in the lower levels of the parking lot. "You have to give me that tape." he said. "It is for the good of the country. Besides, we know of various places you frequent that you might not like made public..." he added. Menacingly, the unidentified officer said "Hand it over now!" The sweating executive whined "But this is the only copy! Nobody else even has a copy of this tape! There aren't even any pictures out there!"
"We know that. Anyway, nobody is going to listen to the average citizen about what they did or didn't see." he said. Grinning, he added "You can do man on the street interviews with whomever you want, and we will do the same thing Clinton did to those women who accused him of harrassment! It won't go anywhere, so just give us the tape...we know you didn't even make any copies..."
A year and a half later when the movie "Wag the Dog" came out, all of the talking heads were saying the idea that a president would start a war just to cover up a sex scandal was ridiculous. Then a few weeks later Lewinsky broke and BJ started bombing people.
I've lived by the Smith Point bridge for the last three years now---St. George Drive, to be exact. The people here in Shirley are unshakeable in their view that it was indeed a missile. Almost everybody knows someone who saw Flight 800 being struck.
There are other nations that have naval forces capable of firing a missle. They can keep a secret.
Does Freedom of the Press mean they never ever have to reveal sources, even in a criminal trial? I don't think so.
Freedom of the Press means they can print what they want about the Government. That's it.
When the cockpit panel was recovered from the water, it was noted that the center tank fuel pump switches were off. I still fail to understand how a center tank pump can start an explosion when there is no electricity to the pump.
All of them! Every last one. As well as many other Boeings. Plus an entire wiring material that had been used for 30+ years is now banned.
At the cost of many millions.
At one time, when TWA 800 conspiracy stuff was very hot, I was tracking the number of AD's (Airworthiness Directives, like a recall, except the owner of the plane pays the cost) that came out of this investigation and it was something like 47.
If those ADs were for nothing, the airlines would not stand for it -- they are the ones left holding the bag.
There have also been operational changes. For instance, no one realized that the air conditioning units, which use the CWFT as a heat sink, would heat the fuel at altitude to the point where there was an inflammable mixture in the ullage of the CWFT (this was confirmed by flight test in an instrumented sister aircraft). SO now they manage the fuel in the tank so that there can never be a flammable mixture in there.
This also gave FAA impetus to research better means of fuel tank inerting. The military does it with nitrogen, which is costly and inefficient. The FAA has found some better ways, which will make everyone safer. There have been several other cases of fuel tank explosions in Boeing aircraft; this is not as unique a case as it looks (only in the casualty numbers).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Thanks... your replies are well written and you sound like you've got the research to back it up. I'll pursue some of your links.
I had always heard that a videotape was available, but then the matter was dropped and I never heard the video mentioned again. Until now.
Slick Willy really did a good job covering up the acts of terrorism that would have certainly pushed the country into a war.
Ron... one CIB guy to another (mine was easier than yours)... I respect you a lot, but Craig Livingstone was not worth killing anybody over, let alone hundreds of 'em. If Clinton needed a diversion, he had plenty of foreign places to shoot at.
The people on the jet were killed by a bunch of bad luck and unforeseen circumstances. People like it to be a conspiracy because that ties up all the loose ends (if something contradicts the theory, the evidence was fixed... or the witness gotten to... or something).
Ask the people on the aviation threads around this place, I know aircraft.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I was watching that show when Stephanopolis said that. And I believe it was John Kerry who was interviewed once and slipped that this was an act of terrorism as well.
Connecting the dots very nicely.
True enough. But "who" would commit such an act of war? (I know, I know...the French...)
I shouldn't be so disrespectful. This stuff is just too Black Helicopter for me. I am one of those...as much as I HATE the Clintons and what they did to our country, I don't think he really fired those missles just to distract from his domestic problems.
That said, they may have viewed it as a nice side effect.
Why the surprise over a federal government cover-up on Flight 800?
Look at that white-wash investigation that dip s**t former Republican Sen. Danford did on Waco.
And when W. Bush came into office, why was there no investigations in all the criminality and possible treason by the Clinton/Gore Administration? On filthy hand of the political establishment seems to wash the other, eh?
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Good question, and the best theory (there's no solid proof) is that because of the decayed mylar insulation on the wiring, higher voltages from elsewhere in the plane's circuitry jumped to the pump wiring or (more likely) the fuel level sender unit wiring.
But the exact cause of ignition remains a mystery. There are several possibilities, but none of them is a solid lock. The official investigation admits this.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I don't happen to believe AC, but AC has adequate reasons to think that way. As opposed to, say, the exploding fuel tank fairy. Read the report about how they tried to reproduce it: It says fuel does not explode under those conditions.
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TWA Flight 800's going down the night before cancelled CRAIG LIVINGSTONE's nationally televised Senate testimony on National TV.
3 weeks later, and away from TV Cameras this time, CRAIG LIVINGSTONE pleaded the 5th to protect HILLARY instead of naming HER as the one who hired him as White House Security Chief in order to get her those pesky FBI Files on Republican Leadership and those sitting in Congress.
Two weeks after the Downing of TWA Flight 800 we also saw the CLINTONS on TV entering an Olympic Stadium acting like innocent Royalty ...just yards away from where someone just happened to plant a diversionary bomb under an NBC TV Camera Tower before they got there.
"It's the TV, Stupid, no matter who pays for it" = CLITNON M.O.
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Exactly right
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