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If you had told me on the morning of July 7 that I would have lunch on July 8 with the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, I would have likely countered with tales of flying pigs or Hamlet-writing monkeys. I knew the odds. In 2013-14, the TWA 800 Project Team made a systematic attempt to get the NTSB to reopen the investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. The Project Team included high-level whistleblowers, family members of the victims, and eyewitnesses. Collectively, team members had a whole lot more juice than I did, but for all...

Of all people, it was Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson who first announced and confirmed to the public that there was only one shooter in Dallas (after news reports varied from two shooters to four and repeatedly described triangulated gunfire). Then there’s the “misreporting” (above) on exactly how the suspected shooter died… But here’s a question: why was DHS so involved in the first place? Via Daily Caller: Officials at the Cause of Action Institute, a nonprofit government oversight group, are seeking documents they believe may show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is withholding vital information about the Dallas...

On July 7, 2016 the FBI issued a "Potential Activity Alert," for "Violence Against Law Enforcement Officers and Riots Planned for 8-10 July, 2016, ("which is a day before 12 officers were ambushed and shot), killing 5 of them in Dallas Texas.The alert stemmed from social media threats, after Alton Sterling was shot during an altercation with a local officer, calling for a planned "purge to kill all cops in Baton Rouge July 9." The alert depicts an image obtained from the social media posting of a masked man, reminiscent of the images of ISIS beheading victims, with a police...