From the Files - Freeh and Flight 800

[Marc Rotenberg]

FWIW, Kallstrom spent much of his time at the press
conference this week debunking the missle theory.
The FBI's explanation for why so many eyewitnesses
appeared to see a missile approach the plane boils
down to this: observers, alerted by the explosion,
were actually observing a wing falling away from
the plane.

Marc.


At 11:14 PM -0000 11/19/97, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>I don't understand TCM's recent comments about Kallstrom
>doing a "good job" on proving or concluding that the airliner TWA800
>was not shot down or bombed.
>
>anyone who has followed anything written by Ian Goddard
>on the internet can only drop their mouth in disbelief.
>
>I urge anyone who wants more facts on the matter to look
>up Ian Goddard's web site on a search engine. there is
>a lot of really solid evidence, including extremely credible
>eyewitness accounts, that it was a MISSILE. whether it was
>from our own government or not is a question -- but I
>fail to see how any well-informed people cannot be aware
>of the foul, odiferous coverup by the FBI (which to me
>suggests it was a US military exercise)
>
>also see the book by James Sanders, "the downing of flight TWA800"--
>he had a confidential informant involved in the NTSB
>investigation.
>
>
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:37:04 -0500
>From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg at epic.org>
>To: rotenberg at epic.org
>Subject: From the Files - Freeh and Flight 800
>
>
>Today the FBI ended the TWA Flight 800 criminal probe. The FBI's
>lead investigator James Kallstrom said that the FBI found
>"absolutely no evidence" that the tragedy was the result of
>a criminal act.
>
>But what was the FBI telling Congress after the incident
>occurred? The following expert from CNN is worth saving.
>Keep in mind that the FBI Director was simultaneously
>lobbying the Judiciary Committee for expanded wiretap
>authority.
>
>Marc.
>
>
>>From the CNN, July 20, 1996
>[http://cnn.com/US/9607/20/twa.crash.probe/index.html]
>
>U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who was among members of Congress briefed
>Friday by FBI Director Louis Freeh, said it looked "pretty darn conclusive"
>that
>either a bomb or a missile caused the explosion.
>
>"We're looking at a criminal act," Hatch said. "We're looking at somebody who
>either put a bomb on it or shot a missile, a surface-to-air missile."
>
>Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told CNN he came to his
>conclusions
>after "various conversations" with government officials.
>
>"I won't go so far as to say it was terrorism, but there was sabotage
>here," Hatch
>said. "It looks like that."
>
>"It's very -- almost 100 percent unlikely -- that this was a mechanical
>failure," he
>said. "It looks pretty darn conclusive that it was an explosion caused either
>internally or externally that was caused by a criminal act."
>
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