Some years ago I was watching This Week on Sunday morning. George Stephanopolus was on. Don’t remember the topic but a discussion of the Situation Room at the WH and it’s uses came up. Stephie described some of his meetings in there and said, and this is a quote, “We were in there when TWA800 was shot down.” George Will looked like he was going to have a heart attack. They cut to a commercial virtually immediately and went to a different topic upon return. I’ll never forget that. I’ve kind of leaned towards friendly fire since then.
I have heard him say that too. But in the program I was listening to (after 9/11) he had prefaced the conversation that day, with a list of terrorist acts which included not only the 1st WTC attack, the embassy bombings, but also TWA flight 800, and then there was a station break. He seemed totally unaware of what he had just admitted, and no one brought it up after the break.