Posted on 06/20/2016 11:33:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I see former FBI New York honcho Jim Kallstrom appear on Fox News, I see a tortured soul. As boldly honest as he has been on the subject of Islamic terrorism, this once honorable man has lived a lie for the last twenty years on the subject of TWA Flight 800. Others have lived the lie as well, but none so personally.
It was Kallstrom who spoke to the press, Kallstrom who testified at congressional hearings, Kallstrom who consoled the families of the 230 dead with the assurance he would leave “no stone unturned” in his pursuit of the truth.
When Kallstrom arrived on the scene in Long Island the day after the crash in July 1996, the truth was indeed what he was seeking. By July 30, 1996 -- less than two weeks after the 747 blew up -- FBI agents had interviewed 144 “excellent” witnesses to a missile strike. As revealed in a recently unearthed CIA memo, the evidence was “overwhelming” and the witness testimony “too consistent” for the cause of the plane’s destruction to be anything other than a missile.
1996 being an election year, however a missile strike on an American airliner involved far too much political risk for the Clinton White House. Working through the CIA, its operatives took effective control of the investigation. For reasons only he knows, Kallstrom knuckled under.
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I finally read the entire article.
It sounds like Cashill is playing “good cop” to try and get Kallstrom to roll over.
Kallstrom knows too much, and he KNOWS he knows too much. There’s no getting out of it, no confession, he is all in.
It’s not a bad cop that Cashill is using as a threat against Kallstrom. It’s the equivalent of a Mafia don from the 1950s-60s, and you don’t cross them.
Did you mean “immolate”? Far more sincere, don’t you think?
A Tomahawk is a cruise missile and has nothing to do with this. A Navy missile would be a Sea Sparrow or a Standard Missile.
A stinger maxes about 10k feet and can do so laterally at about 5 miles. This is loony tunes that someone in a speed boat, shot one straight up like a moon rocket, and had it act like a radar missile instead of an IR tracker, and then they got away in the speedboat.
All the witnesses saw was the flaming body, missing it’s cockpit, streaking upwards until it stalled. They erroneously concluded it had to be a missile. This is no different than the contrail off of LAX a year or so ago that everyone was convinced was a Chinese sub shooting a nuclear missile out into the pacific.
Lunacy spreads fast.
The NTSB put out the official report with some of the FBI and CIA findings included.
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That’s pretty interesting, in and of itself. That’s a lot of government resources devoted to look at what turned out to be such an obvious mechanical failure.
“There was a rumor that it was a US sub that shot down the TWA 800. “
And what US subs carry anti-air missiles?
All the witnesses saw was the flaming body, missing it’s cockpit, streaking upwards until it stalled. They erroneously concluded it had to be a missile.
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This is no different than the contrail off of LAX a year or so ago that everyone was convinced was a Chinese sub shooting a nuclear missile out into the pacific.
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Never heard of that one. Must have been a Twitter thing.
True, legally it was in parallel, but the FBI was clearly on the “this is terrorism” mode. They were in the drivers seat. But they were just as wrong about 800 being anything but an accident as they were about Richard Jewell.
Yes.
And it was everywhere and widely discussed. Including right here sport.
That’s pretty interesting, in and of itself. That’s a lot of government resources devoted to look at what turned out to be such an obvious mechanical failure.
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I read most of the NTSB report and they looked at every possibility and conducted extensive testing and research. They never treated it as an obvious mechanical failure.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625609/posts
Just for you. Everyone in LA, THOUSANDS were convinced they saw an ICBM. It was a regular old boring contrail.
Er, The Soviet Kilo class submarine had anti aircraft missiles since 1982.
True, and the nitrogen inerting system came out of this investigation, and several wiring changes. It isn’t as sexy, but it was an accident.
If there was any justice, all the people involved lying about Flt. 800, or who had anything to do with the “friends of Bill” who came to untimely accidents, would be sitting on death row or would have already been dispatched.
We have been taken over by the political Mafia. No one is safe anymore.
I believe the Ruskies wanted to embarrass the USN anti sub forces.
Er...So in 96, a soviet Kilo class sub, shot a missile at a civilian 747 off Long Island. You said USN sub, but lets just go with your theory. Im fascinated now.
Any chance the sub sailed from a Nazi base in Antarctica?
Well you're not the only one with great understanding of how the military works to have absolutely zero faith in any of its members to follow orders to keep their mouths shut. Seems the more people "know," the less they think duty, honor and country can survive a few beers.
But I will say this - IF the US Navy didn't actually fire that missile, then they damn sure know who did. Because they had all sorts of assets in the area where it was fired from, conducting Aegis combat coordination drills no less. So if twenty ships and several billion dollars in combat technology can't track or stop a couple of rag heads from firing a SAM from a fishing boat, then we should just shut down the Navy altogether and call it a day.
688 Los Angeles class sub has Sea Sparrow missiles
No they don't. Torpedoes, Tomahawks, and Harpoons were all they ever carried.
Sounds like you know your missiles DR, (I know squat about them), so here is a question: Could one of these stinger missiles be fired off from inside a small plane, (flying up at an altitude that would have brought TWA 800 in range of the stinger’s distance limits), out of one of it’s side doors or windows, (with the stinger’s ‘exhaust’ vented out the opposite side window or door)? Could a stinger be ‘fixed’ to one of the plane’s wings and been fired of from inside the plane’s cabin? What do you think?
There wasn’t a missile. Everyone on that ship would have know the instant one fired. They are actually quite an event.
And the ship would have tracked the missile and known immediately. They would have been the heroes of the day. But again, they all stay silent. But we all know sailors never talk. That’s why there aren’t words like scuttlebutt, or sea-stories.
But just for fun, flesh it out for me. What specific US Navy ship or ships do you say were either the missile firers or the ones who tracked it and covered it up? I’d like names.
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