TWA 800

by Jack Cashill

  32.Christine Negroni, Deadly Departure: Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How It Could Happen Again (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 93.

  33.Jerry Markon et al., “Divers Wait as Devices Scan Ocean,” Newsday, July 22, 1996, cached at http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/PING/ping.html.

  34.Negroni, Deadly Departure, 117.

  35.Ibid., 170.

  36.“The Fate of Flight 800: The President’s Remarks at Kennedy to the Families of the Crash Victims,” New York Times, July 26, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/26/nyregion/fate-flight-800-president-s-remarks-kennedy-families-crash-victims.html.

  37.Group Chairman’s Factual Report of Investigation Cockpit Voice Recorder, October 20, 1997, Associated Retired Aviation Professionals: The Flight 800 Investigation, http://www.twa800.com/ntsb/8-15-00/docket/Ex_12A.pdf.

  38.CVR transcript TWA Flight 800, Aviation Safety Network, http://aviation-safety.net/investigation/cvr/transcripts/cvr_tw800.php.

  39.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 26–50.

  40.“Executive Order 13039—Exclusion of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program,” March 11, 1997, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=53855.

  41.Matthew Purdy, “Missile Theory Rebutted in T.W.A. Flight 800 Crash,” New York Times, March 12, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/12/nyregion/missile-theory-rebutted-in-twa-flight-800-crash.html.

  42.Transcript, Witnessed.

  43.As interviewed for Silenced.

  FOURTEEN: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

  1.Bob Woodward, “How Mark Felt Became ‘Deep Throat,’” Washington Post, June 20, 2005, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-mark-felt-became-deep-throat/2012/06/04/gJQAlpARIV_story.html.

  2.Robert Davey, “High-Ranking Military Officers, Independent Investigators, Pilots, and Eyewitnesses Believe a Missile Destroyed TWA Flight 800,” Village Voice, July 21, 1998, http://www.villagevoice.com/news/high-ranking-military-officers-independent-investigators-pilots-and-eyewitnesses-believe-a-missle-destroyed-twa-flight-800-6424009.

  3.Mark Hosenball, “Re-Creating Flight 800’s Final Seconds,” Newsweek, November 30, 1997, http://www.newsweek.com/re-creating-flight-800s-final-seconds-170906.

  4.Videotaped interview with Don Nibert, August 30, 2001.

  5.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 51–75.

  6.Ibid.

  7.Brian Knowlton, “Boeing to Buy McDonnell Douglas,” New York Times, December 16, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/16/news/16iht-merge.t_0.html.

  8.Ralph Nader, Letter on Boeing McDonnell Douglas Merger, December 23, 1996, http://www.cptech.org/at/boeing/dec231996.html.

  9.John Broder, “Office Depot And Staples Merger Halted,” New York Times, July 1, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/01/business/office-depot-and-staples-merger-halted.html.

  10.Boeing press release, November 18, 1997, now cached at http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/CIAVIDEO/boeing.html.

  FIFTEEN: THE FIXERS

  1.Mark Hosenball, “Desperately Seeking the Next Willie Horton,” Newsweek, June 2, 1996, http://www.newsweek.com/desperately-seeking-next-willie-horton-178768.

  2.Jerry Gray, “Politics: The Democrats; Clinton Tells U.S. Athletes, ‘I Want You to Mop Up’,” New York Times, July 20, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/20/us/politics-the-democrat-clinton-tells-us-athletes-i-want-you-to-mop-up.html.

  3.Patricia Milton, In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of TWA Flight 800 (New York: Random House, 1999), 226.

  4.David Johnston, “No. 2 Official at Justice Dept. Leaving After 3 Years There,” New York Times, January 15, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/15/us/no-2-official-at-justice-dept-leaving-after-3-years-there.html.

  5.Michelle Cottle, “Nice work if you can get it: how Fannie Mae became Washington’s biggest power player,” Washington Monthly, June 1, 1998, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Nice+work+if+you+can+get+it:+how+Fannie+Mae+became+Washington’s...-a020789484.

  6.Tim Weiner, “Nominations Have Made C.I.A. Chief Odd Man Out,” New York Times, December 6, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/us/nominations-have-made-cia-chief-odd-man-out.html.

  7.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 26–50.

  8.Ibid., records 51–75.

  9.Tim Weiner, “For ‘the Ultimate Staff Guy,’ a Time to Reap the Rewards of Being Loyal,” New York Times, March 20, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/20/us/for-the-ultimate-staff-guy-a-time-to-reap-the-rewards-of-being-loyal.html.

  10.Selwyn Raab, “F.B.I. Agent Won’t Testify At Mafia Figure’s Hearing,” New York Times, May 18, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/18/nyregion/fbi-agent-won-t-testify-at-mafia-figure-s-hearing.html.

  11.Letter from Kallstrom’s office to Louis Freeh, April 10, 1996, Appendix V in Peter Lance, Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI—and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 553.

  12.Dennis Fitzgerald, Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2007), 230.

  13.Michael Brick, “Agent Accused in Mob Murders Seeks Immunity,” New York Daily News, April 11, 2006, http://z14.invisionfree.com/GangstersInc/ar/t754.htm.

  14.“Goelz Named to Top Administrative Post at NTSB,” NTSB Press Release, December 4, 1997, http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/Goelz_Named_to_Top_Administrative_Post_at_NTSB;_Finch_to_Head_Government_Public_and_Family_Affairs_Office.aspx.

  15.Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, “Ex-Clinton Aide Is Linked to Big Chinese Project,” New York Times, March 6, 1997, https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/14/home/030697hubbell.html.

  16.Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, “Payment to an Ex-Clinton Aide Is Linked to Big Chinese Project,” New York Times, March 6, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/06/us/payment-to-an-ex-clinton-aide-is-linked-to-big-chinese-project.html.

  17.Ibid.

  18.“Fannie Mae Head to Quit,” New York Times, January 11, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/business/fannie-mae-head-to-quit.html.

  19.Chris Neefus, “Former Clinton Official Paid $26 Million by Fannie Mae Before Taxpayer Bailout Now on Obama Shortlist to Run FBI,” cnsnews.com, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/former-clinton-official-paid-26-million-fannie-mae-taxpayer-bailout-now-obama-shortlist.

  20.David Rosenbaum, “For Members of Panel, Past Work Becomes an Issue in the Present,” New York Times, April 14, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/us/threats-responses-commissioners-for-members-panel-past-work-becomes-issue.html.

  21.“Sandy Berger’s Theft of Classified Documents: Unanswered Questions,” Staff Report, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, https://fas.org/irp/congress/2007_rpt/berger.pdf.

  22.Ibid.

  23.Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 106.

  24.“Transcript: Wednesday’s 9/11 Commission Hearings,” March 24, 2004, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20349-2004Mar24.html.

  25.“Text of Condoleezza Rice statement,” USA Today, April 8, 2004, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-08-rice-transcript_x.htm.

  26.Rosenbaum, “For Members of Panel, Past Work Becomes an Issue in the Present.”

  27.Memo from Jamie Gorelick to Louis Freeh and others, April 14, 2005, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2004/04/14/1995_gorelick_memo.pdf.

  28.“Gorelick’s Wall,” Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2004, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108198447949083135.

  29.Eric Lichtblau, “A Kerry Adviser L
eaves the Race Over Documents,” New York Times, July 21, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/us/a-kerry-adviser-leaves-the-race-over-documents.html.

  30.Eric Lichtblau, “Clinton Aide Pleads Guilty to Taking Secret Papers,” New York Times, April 2, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/politics/clinton-aide-pleads-guilty-to-taking-secret-papers.html?_r=0.

  31.Ibid.

  32.Ibid.

  33.Carol Loennig, “Berger is Fined for Smuggling Classified Papers,” Washington Post, September 9, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801711.html.

  34.“Campaign Finance in American Politics,” http://www.campaignmoney.com/.

  35.William Bender, “Weldon blasts Sestak’s ties with fired CIA senior analyst,” Delco Times, April 23, 2006, http://alt.politics.bush.narkive.com/RiRbW1Pp/weldon-blasts-sestak-s-ties-with-fired-cia-senior-analyst.

  36.Weldon Congressional Campaign press release, “Sestak’s Secretary works for Sandy Berger,” May 10, 2006, http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/05/sestaks-press-secretary-works-for.html.

  37.Transcript, William Jefferson Clinton on FOX News Sunday, September 24, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/09/26/transcript-william-jefferson-clinton-on-fox-news-sunday.html.

  38.Greg Gordon, “Congressman in tight race for re-election comes under federal investigation,” McClatchy Newspapers, October 13, 2006, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/incoming/article24458383.html.

  39.Kate Zernike, “In Pennsylvania, Questions About War Erode a Traditional Republican Advantage,” New York Times, October 15, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/us/politics/15weldon.html?_r=0.

  40.Brian Naylor, “FBI Investigates Pennsylvania Republican Weldon,” NPR, October 20, 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6352043.

  41.“It’s time feds bring Weldon matter to close,” Delco Times, August 4, 2009, http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20090804/editorial-its-time-feds-bring-weldon-matter-to-close.

  42.Christopher Matthews, “Sklamberg Leaves D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office for FDA,” Main Justice, May 20, 2010, http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/05/20/sklamberg-leaves-d-c-u-s-attorneys-office-for-the-fda/.

  43.Press Release, “Donaldson Exposes Traficant’s Duplicity on TWA Flight 800,” May 24, 1999, cached at Associated Retired Aviation Professionals: The Flight 800 Investigation, http://twa800.com/news/prtraficant.htm.

  44.Ibid.

  SIXTEEN: ENGINE TROUBLE

  1.Megyn Kelly Reports, Fox News, June 19, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0vN1j_Q0A.

  2.USS Carr, http://navysite.de/ffg/FFG52.HTM#co.

  3.Conversation captured in an e-mail exchange, December 9, 2015.

  4.Michael Rivero, “Was TWA 800 Shot Down By a Military Missile?” http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/twa.php#axzz3yZczrqdK

  5.Patricia Milton, In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of TWA Flight 800 (New York: Random House, 1999), 329–31.

  6.“TWA Flight 800: A Mother’s Letter,” June 19, 2003, WND.com, http://www.wnd.com/2003/06/19368/.

  7.Phone interview with Lisa Michelson, June 28, 2015.

  8.Milton, In the Blink of an Eye, 331.

  9.Transcript, “TWA Flight 800: No Survivors,” CNN.com, June 31, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/21/acd.02.html.

  10.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 76–101.

  11.National Law Journal, September 18, 2006, cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, http://raylahr.entryhost.com/9-18-06-National-Law-Journal.pdf.

  12.See “Twa Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb,” http://raylahr.entryhost.com.

  13.TWA Flight 800, NTSB docket materials, DCA-96-MA070, August 2000, “TWA Flight 800 Crash Investigation,” C-SPAN, May 10, 1999, http://www.c-span.org/video/?123165-1/twa-flight-800-crash-investigation.

  14.Hannity’s America, Fox News, July 29, 1997.

  15.NTSB Witness Group Factual Report, October 16, 1997, cached at Associated Retired Aviation Professionals: The Flight 800 Investigation, http://twa800.com/4a/exhibit4a.html.

  16.NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, In-flight breakup over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 Boeing 747-131, N93119, near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996 (Washington, DC: Diane Publishing, 2000), 74.

  17.CBS News 2, August 5, 1996.

  18.TWA Flight 800, NTSB docket materials, DCA-96-MA070, August 2000, Exhibit 4A, appendix H.

  19.Matthew Wald, “Nothing ‘Extraordinary’ Is Found in 747’s Engines,” New York Times, August 17, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/17/nyregion/nothing-extraordinary-is-found-in-747-s-engines.html.

  20.Ibid.

  21.Affidavit of Henry Hughes, cached at The TWA 800 Project, https://twa800project.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/affidavit-of-hank-hughes.pdf.

  22.“Analysis and Recommendations Regarding T.W.A. Flight 800,” submitted by R. T. Miller, https://twa800.sites.usa.gov/files/twa800/DCA96MA070/50470.pdf.

  23.Affidavit of Henry Hughes.

  24.As interviewed in Tom Stalcup and Kristina Borjesson, TWA Flight 800 (TWA 800 Project, LLC, 2013).

  25.John Barry and Roger Charles, “Sea of Lies,” Newsweek, July 12, 1992, http://www.newsweek.com/sea-lies-200118.

  SEVENTEEN: BENGHAZI MOMENT

  1.Matthew Wald, “Boeing Says Vapor Threat Requires a Tank Redesign,” New York Times, December 10, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/10/nyregion/boeing-says-vapor-threat-requires-a-tank-redesign.html.

  2.Neil Genzlinger, “Leaving No Survivors but Many Questions,” New York Times, July 16, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/arts/television/twa-flight-800-examines-a-1996-tragedy.html?_r=0.

  3.As interviewed in Tom Stalcup and Kristina Borjesson, TWA Flight 800 (TWA 800 Project, LLC, 2013).

  4.Ibid.

  5.“Risk Management Expert Calls for New Investigation into Cause of TWA Flight 800 Crash,” PRweb, July 8, 2013, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10903410.htm.

  6.“The Situation Room,” CNN, June 20, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd95PkWbkn8.

  7.“Former FBI investigator defends probe into TWA 800 crash,” Fox News, June 20, 2013, http://video.foxnews.com/v/2494702166001/former-fbi-investigator-defends-probe-into-twa-800-crash/?#sp=show-clips.

  8.Transcript, CNN Newsroom, June 22, 2013, http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/22/cnr.02.html.

  9.Fred Lucas, “WH: Obama Called Hillary on Night of Benghazi Attack—More Than Six Hours After It Started,” cnsnews.com, February 20, 2013, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-obama-called-hillary-night-benghazi-attack-more-six-hours-after-it-started.

  10.Donovan Slack, “Hillary Clinton condemns Benghazi attack,” Politico, September 12, 2012, http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/09/hillary-clinton-condemns-benghazi-attack-135265.

  11.Brendan Bordelon, “Benghazi Committee Bombshell: Clinton Knew ‘Attack Had Nothing to Do with the Film,’” National Review, October 22, 2015, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425933/benghazi-committee-emails-hillary-clinton-lied-video-excuse.

  12.“Second Presidential Debate: Libya,” CBS News, October 16, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/second-presidential-debate-libya/.

  13.“President Obama Speaks on the Attack on Benghazi,” whitehouse.gov, September 12, 2102, https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/09/12/president-obama-speaks-attack-benghazi.

  14.Jack Cashill, “CNN Edits Out Comparison of TWA 800 and Benghazi,” American Thinker, June 26, 2013, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/06/cnn_edits_out_comparison_of_twa_800_and_benghazi.html.

  15.Jack Cashill, “What CNN Cut Out of TWA 800 Interview,” American Thinker, June 27, 2013, http://www.cashill.com/twa800/what_cnn_cut_out.htm.

  16.Andrew Kramer and Dan Bilefsky, “Malaysia Airlines Crash Investigators May Have Found Missile Clues in Ukraine,” New York Times, August 11, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/wor
ld/europe/malaysia-airlines-crash-mh17-ukraine-missile.html?_r=0.

  17.“Malaysia Flight Crashes With 295 On Board,” CNN Breaking News, July 17, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLb49pPSe4.

  18.Transcript, Witnessed.

  19.“Malaysia Flight Crashes With 295 On Board,” CNN Breaking News, July 17, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUqbteKLkzg.

  EIGHTEEN: PROCRUSTES

  1.Susan Cornwell, “Safety investigators stand by cause of TWA Flight 800 Crash,” Reuters, July 2, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-flight-probe-idUSBRE96201120130703.

  2.Letter to David Tochen, June 26, 2014, The TWA 800 Project, https://twa800project.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/stalcup-hughes-to-tochen-final.pdf. This letter documents the Project’s history of petitioning the NTSB.

  3.“NTSB Stands By Investigation of 1996 Crash of TWA Flight 800,” NTSB, http://twa800.sites.usa.gov/.

  4.NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, In-flight breakup over the Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, xvi.

  5.Phone interview with Vernon Grose, October 23, 2015.

  6.“MH17 Crash,” Dutch Safety Board, October 2015, http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en.pdf.

  7.“NTSB Refuses to Reopen TWA Flight 800 Crash Probe,” NBC News, July 2, 2014, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ntsb-refuses-reopen-twa-flight-800-crash-probe-n147051.

  8.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 1–10.

  9.Ibid. All other CIA interpretations of the FBI 302s can be found at this location.

  10.Transcript, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Aviation, July 10, 1997.

  11.Document cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com/ “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” Court Ordered releases, CIA: May 13, 2008.

  12.Brumley interview as seen in Tom Stalcup’s Rebuttal of CIA Video About TWA Flight 800, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyluFVxqBlo.

  13.CIA documents cached at TWA Flight 800: The Impossible Zoom Climb, raylahr.entryhost.com, “CIA records released to Tom Stalcup,” records 26–50.