The “Bombing” of TWA 800
Media Monitor | By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | October 3, 2001
To justify holding a meeting in the situation room there had to be something special about the TWA 800 crash . . .
The government's forty-million-dollar investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 ended up with the National Transportation Safety Board, the FBI and the CIA all agreeing that an explosion in the center-wing fuel tank broke off the front end of the Boeing 747. That, they said, caused it to crash, but only after it had climbed a few thousand feet, leaving hundreds of eyewitnesses thinking that it was a missile. The CIA actually produced a video showing the huge noseless jet imitating a rocket, an aeronautical absurdity.
Over six years have passed since that crash that killed 230 people, and now, at long last, two former high ranking government officials speaking on TV have put the lie to the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the destruction of that airplane.
George Stephanopoulos, who was a senior adviser to President Clinton until he resigned to go to work for ABC News, was the first to let the truth slip out. On September 11, the day the four airliners were hijacked and three of them crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon building, Stephanopoulos was talking to ABC's Peter Jennings about President Bush being flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. There, he repaired to the situation room, where he could keep in touch with Washington by teleconferencing.
Stephanopoulos, implying that this was unnecessary, said, "There are facilities in the White House, not the normal situation room, which everyone has seen in the past, has seen pictures of. There is a second situation room, behind the primary situation room, which has video conferencing capabilities. The director of the Pentagon, the defense chief, can speak from a national military command center at the Pentagon. The Secretary of State can speak from the State Department, the President from wherever he is, and they'll have this capability for video conferencing throughout this crisis. In my time at the White House it was used in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, in the aftermath of the TWA Flight 800 bombing...."
"The TWA Flight 800 bombing?" We called George to ask if he meant to suggest that the plane was destroyed by a bomb, but he has not returned our calls. His revelation that the situation room was used to discuss the crash supports the theory that high explosives were involved. To justify holding a meeting in the situation room there had to be something special about the TWA 800 crash—evidence that either terrorism was involved or that the plane had been shot down by friendly fire by mistake.
Jim Sanders, in his book "The Downing of TWA Flight 800," says that there was a meeting in the White House situation room that night. He was told that high officials were watching in real time a video transmission of a Navy test of an anti-missile missile that went awry.
Reed Irvine is the former Chairman of Accuracy In Media and Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report.
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