At 9am,I woke up to pres. Clinton,using his croaky voice,telling the nation that TWA's actions were unconscionable. He stated that TWA was not yet notifying the families of the passengers and staff. He further said that he was setting up a government disaster notification team to ensure that things were handled correctly.
I recall that my first thoughts included wondering who "they" were trying to establish was either on or off that flight since I knew that the list had been taken away from TWA pretty early on. I had many other thoughts, the mildest and kindest was that the president at the very least had poor communications with his key staff.
Typical clinton reaction - accuse someone else of doing that which you in fact are doing. And as you point out, do it in that croaky voice that never fooled me once, but somehow fooled millions upon millions of supposedly intelligent people.