Posted on 11/19/2002 4:41:39 AM PST by canalabamian
The only hope might come during a second Bush II administration. After the sacking of Louie Freeh of course.
Click here for Reed Irvine's monumental bellyflop on that subject.
FYI, in some states, such as Texas, one doesn't register as a member of a political party. One merely registers to vote, which is as it should be. When you vote in a primary, your registration certificut is stamped so that you don't go and vote in the primary of another party, but that information isn't recorded anywhere else AFAIK.
That would be the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board, not the FAA, althoug the FAA would be the one to order the wiring and other aircraft modifications. NTSB also found fault with the FAA which approved the original design.
IIRC, Boeing DID dispute the conclusion, and they may still be disputing it in court for all I know.
...it'd more than explain Clintigula's motive for a cover-up.
Actually it would have given the bent one a big stick to beat the military with. We all know about the "high esteem" (read loathing) the Clintons hold the military. He could have used this to further cut budgets, dismiss many of the brass who refused to toe the Clintonian line, and so forth. He certainly wouldn't risk any political capital in a coverup to protect the military.
No. It would have been rather hard to "put together" a four-plane "storyline" and kill all those extra people.
(And no, "pilot error" would not have sufficed even for a single plane 9/11. Manhattan was generally restricted airspace anyway, the flight was already proven hijacked, etc etc.)
That would be RIM-116 which is indeed a RAM, Rolling Airframe Missle. It uses a Stinger type seeker and Sidewinder type motor and warhead. The Stinger type seeker is still a heat seeker in the terminal phase, but is a passive RF seeker during the flyout, both modes requiring no guidance from the launcher. The -B model can use IR all the way, if the target is not emitting. However the newer, even in the early 90s, Stinger type seekers could home on skin heat, they did not necessarily go for the engines. It was indeed a joint US German developement, but the Contractor was General Dynamics. However GD missles was bought by Hughes which in turn was bought by or technically merged with, Raytheon, (BTW, AKA RAT-Co, HQ'd in Taxachussetts)
Executive Order 13039 specifically provides for "Exclusion of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program", a whistle-blower deal just as you mentioned. The Naval Special Warfare Development Group was part of the TWA800 recovery team. Bubba issued it on March 11, 1997. That was the same week that Salinger went public, the FBI seized a FAA radar tape from Richard Russell, and the FBI wanted James Sanders for "questioning". Just a series of isolated incidents, nothing to look at here people, just move along...(and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...)
Don't forget the big picture: he was facing an ELECTION in four months. His re-election for a second term.
How would he know it wasn't terrorists? All he would know would be the mechanism, not the perpetrators. It's amazing what sorts of stuff terrorists who have their own country can come up with in the way of hardware, and that could have been Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, even Libya or North Korea.
I was thinking of later, after he was re-elected and then could, as was his wont after election, turn hard left. Come to think of it, it's a typical Demo wont, whether they win or lose.
To further compound the poster's errors that you pointed out is the slightly difficult fact that it didn't happen.
No order to replace "all wiring" in "all Boeing 747s" has been issued. No 747s have been grounded, no "frayed wiring" was found, no Technical orders have been released to correct this "problem", and the one technical order suggested (to fill empty tanks with inert nitrogen) was deemed not economically justified in light of the miniscule risk.
That's right, Illbay, cuz you KNOW that Clinton and the FBI can be TRUSTED IMPLICITLY on this one. (The rest of us are just so damn stupid for NOT believing their story!)
Sssssssuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrre!
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