Or the terrorists ramp up the scope and scale of their operations until they can neither be ignored nor covered up. Like 9/11.
I was watching a documentary about the TWA Flight 800 cover-up that featured forty or so eyewitnesses and about twenty NTSB investigators who made it clear that the FBI had manipulated evidence, intimidated witnesses, threatened NTSB investigators, and then outright lied to Congress about the facts of the event.
I know this idea is probably a shot-in-the-dark, but what if the shoot down of TWA 800 wasn’t an accident that got covered up? What if it was an assassination?
What if someone like an Edward Snowden had managed to get on that plane and somebody made the decision to shoot it down to prevent that person from escaping the USA? If you look at it this way then it starts to make sense that a US Navy ship could have targeted the plane under the argument that some critical aspect of national security was being protected by the downing of the plane.
And then it makes sense that the FBI would want to hide evidence of any missile because the evidence of the missile would be evidence of a US missile.
Pure speculation, I know, but I thought I’d throw this out there.