Me too!
How I wish I knew this NTSB board member. I would love to talk to him about his reasons for believe the truth was subverted.
Unlikely.
The possibility of correctly assigning the blame to the *first* causal event that worked to bring TWA800 down in the form of an aged Boeing 747-100: the inadvertant opening/failure of the forward cargo bay door, would -not- sit well with the aviation transport industry.
Since this event -has- happened before - much egg would be therefore scheduled for a lot of what are now clean-looking faces ...