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Re: From the Files - Freeh and Flight 800
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 <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>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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