I like Cashill’s book, and in general his theory.
What doesn’t hold water is the notion that by having a NAVY misfire/accident, this would have “doomed” Clinton’s reelection.
I don’t buy that for a second. Clinton could have immediately called for a “review” and promised to “get to the bottom of it” and even shut down some of the Navy (which he certainly would have liked to do). I don’t see how this seriously would have damaged Clinton. So that part doesn’t make sense.
I think the factor here is that the Centennial Olympic Park Bombing occurred 10 days later. Clinton likely felt that he couldn't have two terrorist incidents within a week of each other as he was going into the 1996 DNC convention in less than a month.
So he ordered the NTSB and the FBI to make this into an accident, and Richard Jewell was immediately made into the public scapegoat to get the Olympic bombing off the news.
-PJ
I don't have the book where I am now, but as I recall Jayna Davis in her book THE THIRD TERRORIST said that Clinton when he heard about the OKC bombing said he hoped it was NOT middle eastern terrorists. Of course, IMHO, Jayna clearly showed the OKC bombing was middle eastern terrorists.
A bit over a year later, TWA 800 goes down and videos and lots of witnesses say they saw a missile (some say more than one).
Clinton could NOT let the public know that terrorists were in the US killing Americans and Clinton's gubermint let it happen not once, but twice. And these two incidents set up 9/11. If this is true, and lots of information suggests it is, then Clinton's lies led to thousands of innocent people dying gruesome deaths.
Neither Bill or Hillary Clinton ever saw a lie they wouldn't tell.