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CNN Edits Out Comparison of TWA 800 and Benghazi |
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© Jack Cashill On this past Saturday morning, I did a live remote from Kansas City for CNN’s “New Day” program on the subject of TWA Flight 800, hosted by Alison Kosik. What follows is the transcript as it appears on CNN.com. What does not appear I will explain later. Inherent in this transcript is the Achilles heel of what is arguably the most successful bit of government propaganda in American peacetime history. Unwittingly, what the CNN editors left in is more damning than what they took out.
Before I comment on what’s missing, let me add a little clarity to what is here. In 1997, at the request of the FBI, the CIA prepared its zoom-climb animation in an attempt to convince the media and the American people that the eyewitnesses did not see a missile or missiles but rather a nose-less 747 rocketing into space. This became the official government position. The pilot that CNN cites is actually named David McLaine, who was flying an Eastwinds airliner south at sixteen thousand feet towards Flight 800’s path. When several members of the NTSB witness group finally got to question the CIA about its animation three years after the crash, they focused on McLaine’s testimony. They did so because his testimony challenged the CIA scenario. As they explained, McLaine watched the explosion from the beginning and insisted that no part of the plane ascended. “If it had ascended,” Robert Young of the NTSB witness group told the CIA analysts during this interview, “[McLaine] would have been concerned because it ascended right through his altitude.”When a CIA analyst tried to deflect the question, Young continued. “I think [McClaine] would have noticed [the climb],” he said sarcastically. “Your analysis has it zooming to above his altitude.” Consider the irony here. Of all the eyewitness, the NTSB staffers used McClaine to demolish the government position. They were right to do so. Of all the eyewitnesses, CNN used that same pilot to support the government position, and they were wrong. Three thousand feet above TWA Flight 800 and fifteen or twenty miles away, he was not in a good position to see any missiles. His testimony hardly negates that of the scores of eyewitnesses better positioned. “It’s a very critical point that it’s not critical precisely how high that plane went,” CIA Analyst 1 continued to obfuscate. He then turned to his key witness, the one around whom the CIA built its video scenario, a Philadelphia area millwright named Mike Wire who was working on a bridge in Westhampton. Said CIA Analyst 1: Let me say something else about this eyewitness [Wire] because I think this is interesting. He was an important eyewitness to us. And we asked the FBI to talk to him again, and they did. In his original description, he thought he had seen a firework and that perhaps that firework had originated on the beach behind the house. We went to that location and realized that if he was only seeing the airplane, that he would not see a light appear from behind the rooftop of that house. The light would actually appear in the sky. It’s high enough in the sky that that would have to happen. When he was reinterviewed, he said that is indeed what happened. The light did appear in the sky. Now, when the FBI told us that, we got even more comfortable with our theory. The italics are mine. There was no second FBI interview. The government also recorded a second FBI interview with Witness #73, the witness about whom I spoke briefly on CNN. In her second interview #73 confessed to drinking several “Long Ice Teas,” and these impaired her judgment. In real life, she doesn’t drink, did not even know what a Long Island Ice Tea was. As in Wire’s case, there was no second interview. To make its theory that a mechanical failure brought down TWA 800 work, the CIA manufactured interviews for two essential eyewitnesses and ignored McClaine. Although McLaine’s testimony demolished the CIA’s case, Polk and CNN brushed right by the CIA’s corrupt analysis as though it were an incidental detail, but it was not. If the eyewitnesses did not see a rocketing 747, they saw missiles. As to what was left out, Kosik asked me with about one minute left who fired the missiles, why, and why the cover-up. I chose to answer the last part of the question. I said TWA Flight 800 was Clinton’s “Benghazi moment,” a national security disaster that threatened his reelection, and like Obama, he just tried to kick the can down the road past November. CNN edited those comments out of the transcript. What they left in was the Rosetta stone of the whole damned investigation.
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