I never understood WHY they covered it up. Seeing how the country went hysterical after 9/11, it may have been justified.
Clinton was facing re-election in 4 months. He didn't want to appear weak or be shown to have had a massive intelligence failure. If nothing else, the Dole campaign or maybe Perot would have hammered him about it enough to cost him the election.
It was just easier to invent some zoom climb bullshit and blame it on a mechanical failure instead of Clinton getting painted as weak on security.
never understood WHY they covered it up. Seeing how the country went hysterical after 9/11, it may have been justified.
...ahhh, really? justified to make up a story and lie about innocent civilian deaths ? There was no hysteria after 9/11.... maybe they miss you over at DU? No conservative would justify dishonesty to win an election just cause the BentOne didn’t want to have another scandal over security to explain, and was too much of a coward to retaliate if it was a foreign power and not a naval exercise accident...
ymmv