'Bombing' of TWA Flight 800: Reed Irvine reveals new admissions by Stephanopoulos and Kallstrom

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, September 20, 2001 | Reed Irvine

[JohnHuang2]

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The 'bombing' of TWA Flight 800

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By Reed Irvine
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

Over five years have passed since the crash of TWA Flight 800 killed 230 people, and now, at long last, two former high-ranking government officials speaking on television have implicitly disavowed the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the destruction of that airplane.

The government's $40 million investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 ended up with the National Transportation Safety Board, the FBI and the CIA all agreeing that an explosion in the center-wing fuel tank caused it to crash. They said that after the explosion broke off the entire front end of the plane, its tail dropped and it shot up like a rocket, trailing burning fuel behind it. They said that was what hundreds of eyewitnesses saw, mistaking it for a missile. The CIA actually produced a video showing the huge noseless jet ascending like a rocket, an aeronautical impossibility.

They got away with it because our establishment media in the Clinton era had the bad habit of believing nearly everything government agencies told them, even if it was patently ridiculous. But now, a former White House official, George Stephanopoulos, who was a senior adviser to President Clinton, has made a statement on television that indicates that the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the TWA 800 crash was false. On September 11, the unforgettable day of disaster, Stephanopoulos, who is now an ABC News correspondent, was talking to ABC's Peter Jennings on camera about President Bush being flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and taken to the situation room on the base where he could keep in touch with Washington by teleconferencing.

Stephanopoulos, implying that this was unnecessary, made this surprising statement: "There are facilities in the White House, not the normal situation room, which everyone has seen in the past, has seen pictures of. There is a second situation room, behind the primary situation room, which has video conferencing capabilities. The director of the Pentagon, the defense chief, can speak from a national military command center at the Pentagon. The Secretary of State can speak from the State Department, the president from wherever he is, and they'll have this capability for video conferencing throughout this crisis. In my time at the White House it was used in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, in the aftermath of the TWA Flight 800 bombing, and that would be the way they would stay in contact through the afternoon."

The TWA Flight 800 bombing? Peter Jennings, the anchorman for ABC's "World News Tonight," didn't bat an eyelash. Instead of asking his colleague to explain his use of the word "bombing" and why there was a special meeting in the White House situation room to discuss it, Jennings asked a question about the president taking orders from the Secret Service.

Efforts to reach Mr. Stephanopoulos to find out if he has information that the plane was destroyed by a bomb have been unsuccessful, and no one at ABC News recognized that Stephanopoulos had revealed that he was privy to what might be a very important change in the story about TWA 800. When informed of this, Brian Ross, who heads ABC News's investigative unit, promised to look into it.

There had to be something special about the TWA 800 crash to justify holding a meeting in the White House situation room to discuss it. That surely is not done every time one of our planes crashes. Stephanopoulos said that it was held in the "aftermath of the bombing," but the precise date and time are important.

In his book, "The Downing of TWA Flight 800," James Sanders says that there was a meeting in the White House situation room on the night of July 17, 1996, that began before the crash. Sanders says that he was told by a confidential source that high officials gathered there to watch in real time a video transmission of a Navy demonstration of its ability to shoot down a missile off the shore of Long Island. They were horrified when something went wrong and they saw the missile shoot down TWA Flight 800. What Stephanopoulos should tell us is whether the meeting he described began before or after the plane crashed. If he won't reveal that, the White House should.

The fuel-tank theory of the crash was also disavowed by James Kallstrom, who headed the FBI investigation. He said on CNN on September 11 that the attack that day was "the first act of terrorism in the U.S. since TWA 800." He has yet to explain when he discovered that TWA 800 was brought down by terrorists.

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Reed Irvine is the chairman of Accuracy In Media, a media watchdog group based in Washington, D.C.

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[verity]

Here we go again!

[aruanan]

... the crash of TWA Flight 800 killed 230 people....

I don't think it was the crash that killed them.

[StormEye]

1) Pan AM 103 over Scotland

2) TWA Flight 800 off of New York

3) Egypt Air flight 900 off of New York.

4) Now the Twin Towers atrocity in New York using
American air carriers.

Commercial air travel has not been safe for Americans for quite awhile and the U.S. Government
knows this. No doubt in my mind that the Feds have been covering up this lack of security.
Particularly, the Clinton Administration.

[Kermit]

The shock has caused the liars to tell the truth for once.

[gargoyle]

...Bump it, all day!

[LSJohn]

fyi

[SKYDRIFTER]

Research the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution;" therein lies the truth you're after. Billions to Texas.

[SKYDRIFTER]

For a real eye-opener, see -

Airline Safety ‘Net

- look to the “Attack on America” link.

You're on the right track. The dots are connected in fact; broken by propaganda; and a relatively new propaganda science called "Perception Control," borrowed from 'magic' shows.

[Leper Messiah]

bump

[Brian Allen]

Everyone connected with the loss of TWA's 747 has known from the earliest days after the aircraft was lost that the primary cause of the explosion was a walked on terrorist bomb.

American Spectator reported it in explicit detail within months -- and reported also that the RICO-racketeer Gore/Clinton/DNC organized-criminal enterprises AKA the Clinton "administration" had [In order the airlines evade having to meet the cost of needed upgrades to the insane bloody joke which -- until last Tuesday anyway -- was called "airport security"] -- been paid off by the airlines to corrupt the "investigation" of the "accident."

The criminal corruption engaged in by the airlines, the "administration" and the various agencies sewed the Evil wind whose first-cut whirlwind was reaped last Tuesday!

And, now that the consequences of their own corrupt actions have returned to haunt them -- and have directly involved them in around 6000 murders -- the same bloody airlines are lined up at the public trough demanding to be compensated by their victims for the outcome of their foul and obscenely criminal corruption.

Guess they take their lessons from their Peking buds -- and send the bill for the executioners' bullets to their victims' homes.

[japaneseghost]

So, finally, the truth begins to come out.

If I were Kallstrom I would get a lawyer and negotiate to not get prosecuted for lying to Congress. He needs to tell WHO gave him the orders to lie and WHO gave him the orders to stifle a national security informant.

[gjenkins]

Maybe a navy accident which will now be blamed on terorists?

[FreePaul]

Sounds to me as if the Clinton era cover up artists are going to their fall back position. Now that we know terrorists can attack aircraft it seems much more desirable to blame 800 on terrorists than have people believe our own missile downed the plane. If terrorists are to blame we can't blame anyone in the Clinton administration for not knowing or covering up. Not so with a missile shot.

I don't have an idea as to what caused the 800 disaster. Just doesn't seem the fuel tank theory carries any credibility. Now that the spin artists are talking about bombing and terrorist attacks makes me more curious about their goal.

[Harrison Bergeron]

No conspiracy theories here, just speculation: If TWA800 had been infected with suicidal terrorists - especially suicidal terrorists with a bomb - shooting it down would have been a military judgement call. Covering it up after the fact would be a national security judgement call. Although there's no evidence that Flight 93 over PA went down as a result of heroic action be passengers, we now know that the order had been given to fire upon it if it did not retreat from its vector toward Washington.

[Harrison Bergeron]

Damn! Think then type! Think then type!

No conspiracy theories here, just speculation: If TWA800 had been infected with suicidal terrorists - especially suicidal terrorists with a bomb - shooting it down would have been a military judgement call. Covering it up after the fact would be a national security judgement call. Although there's no is clear evidence that Flight 93 over PA went down as a result of heroic action be passengers, we now know that the order had been given to fire upon it if it did not retreat from its vector toward Washington.

[smorgle]

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[independentmind]

Covering it up after the fact would be a national security judgement call.

That is an amazing statement. The same kind of national security that failed to detect critical weaknesses in airline security?

If TWA800 was a terrorist incident, the reason for the cover-up was probably to prevent the same kind of economic tremors that the more recent bombings have caused. By avoiding confronting the truth, however, the damage has only been magnified.

Lies have this funny way of boomeranging. Too bad more of our brilliant bureacrats and politicians don't understand that.

[smorgle]

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[smorgle]

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[laureldrive]

Didn't Rush Limbaugh dismiss the theory that 800 was a terrorist hit, or brought down by a bomb, because Kallstrom was his friend, he trusted Kallstrom, and Kallstrom assured us it wasn't a bomb or a missile? Is it time to pressure Rush to show some credibility and ask some questions?