Posted on 08/21/2006 8:19:46 PM PDT by AnimalLover
Serious movement in D.C. – and if I hadn't been there, I would not have believed it.
For several months Joan Wire and her daughter have been trying to secure an appointment with a highly effective government official we'll simply call Mr. Washington. Joan Wire is the stalwart wife of Mike Wire. Mike is the storied "man on the bridge," the single most critical eyewitness in the saga of TWA Flight 800, the 747 that was inexplicably blown out of the sky on the night of July 17, 1996.
The CIA built its notorious zoom-climb animation around Mike's position on the Beach Lane Bridge in Westhampton. The FBI then used this animation to discredit all the eyewitnesses. To make Wire's story work to its advantage, however, the CIA had to disregard what Mike actually told the FBI and fully fabricate a second FBI interview with Mike.
The CIA likely chose Wire because as a Philadelphia area millwright he would have less influence and less access to the media than the many of the wealthy vacationers in the Hamptons who had seen what Wire saw.
In one of those providential moments, when the Wires called to tell me they had secured an appointment, I was hanging out with my 50 or so closest relatives at our rent-a-compound in the un-Hyannis honky-tonk town of Seaside Park, N.J. The Wires were just about an hour way. On the night of July 26, they came over for dinner. On the morning of July 27, we hooked up at the Chesapeake House on I-95 and carpooled into D.C. together.
On the way down, we voiced our shared expectation that Mr. Washington would usher us into his office, listen to us politely for 15 minutes, fake some emergency, pat us on our heads, tell us he'd look into it and send us on our way.
As it turned out, Mr. Washington ushered us into his office at 11 a.m., listened to us more than politely, and at 1:30 p.m., after two and a half intense hours, I stood up and announced that I had family obligations back in New Jersey and had to go. Joining us for that entire period was Ms. Virginia, Washington's chief intelligence aide. They were both all ears.
We began by showing them the eyewitness section of the video, "Silenced," which I had put on DVD primarily for this occasion, never suspecting that I would be the one showing it. Mike Wire then elaborated on his own role. When he spoke, no one doubted him. Although there were 270 others who saw what Wire had seen, his testimony alone is enough to convince the unbelieving. The more-than-solid, 6-foot 6-inch Army veteran has a no-nonsense air that nicely grounded everything he and I said.
For my part, I connected the political dots: the players, the motivation, the rough logic, the ad hoc decisions and the likely connection to Bojinka, now much again in the news, and Sept. 11. None of this shocked our listeners. They had had their own indirect contact with the players who form something of a Clinton shadow government in exile. These players are now publicly contributing to certain 2006 congressional candidates in the hope of securing power anew, power enough to shut down any future investigation.
We also discussed Sandy Berger's motivation in rifling the archives and shredding documents, the most under-investigated story since TWA Flight 800 itself. I speculated that Berger destroyed a Bojinka summary, which I know for a fact President Clinton had read and annotated in the late summer of 1996. The incriminating part of Bojinka, at least as it related to 9-11, I explained, was not the bombing of the planes, but the threat within to use planes as bombs. No one looked at me like I was crazy.
Mr. Washington was fully versed not only in Bojinka but also in the threat of its architect, Ramzi Yousef, to blow up a plane in the summer of 1996 to throw his New York City trial for Bojinka into mistrial. I could not verify that Yousef was responsible, but I could verify that he claimed to have been.
Toward the end of the session, Mr. Washington all but apologized to us for the state of government today. "It's not supposed to be like this," he lamented.
That provoked in me my "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" moment. On the up side, I encouraged him, just one night earlier the Wires and I had been plotting strategy over hamburgers with my siblings while various little nieces and nephew swarmed around our picnic table. The next day, we drove down, joking how absurd it was that three average Joes like ourselves had wangled a high-level meeting on a story that could dwarf Watergate if broken. "Is this a great country or what?" I laughed, but I meant it.
The Wires and I have taken this story about as far as our information and influence can carry us. Everything we know we have already said. Whether Mr. Washington can take it further I do not know. He could surely use a little help from the New York Times or others in the media or others in government. This may never happen, but then again, I never thought this meeting would have happened either.
Either it was an accident or the plane crashed because of terrorist activity.
Too many questions remain unanswered - why were people holding evidence have it taken away, and then put in jail? Why were so many eye witnesses ignored especially when each reported the exact same thing? Why was Mr. Wire's interview deliberately reworded? How in God's name could a plane with a nose blown off be able to climb 13,000 feet - to my way of thinking the explosion would cause an immediate stall and the plane would immediately drop.
I think an investigation is in order - complete with a review of all "hard" evidence (pieces of plane, etc.) and a Congressional hearing that includes some of the witnesses - those in the military, airlines, those that are completely reputable.
One other thing, Capt. Lahr should be given all the information he has requested via the Freedom Of Information Act - properly requested through the courts. If it was just an accident, why does the FBI - CIA - refuse to release it?
And, I am concerned that too many people involved in this case are now involved with 9/11 and our current fight on terrorism. They do not instill a lot of confidence.
I am writing my representatives in Washington and wonder if anyone has any other suggestions?
Maybe we Freeper's can get this done if we get together?!
I attended Stony Brook at the time TWA got shot down. Yes shot down because too many people at the scene said they saw something go up to the plane first. Now why cover that up? Just admit it. Sheesh.
I suspect the full truth of TWA 800, will never be known..
Semper Fi
btuis -- bump until I'm sober
Maybe now they will also admit that the Arabs blew up the federal building in Oklahoma too.
Because if Bubba let it be known, he may have had to get serious about Islamofascism, that is why.
good point
Most people who take time to look at the evidence and not all this conspiracy bullsh*t know it was not.
I think they should open up the whole sordid TWA 800 thing again --this time to find out the truth, instead of intimidating people, twisting evidence, and jailing patriots (that lady and her husband).
Oh, and I still don't believe the BS about Tim McVeigh not having M.E. help...
Actually it is known......by the witnesses.
Good question Cyborg.
I always that that because it would have been very damaging to the Clintoon re-election campaign it was covered up.
I am not holding my breath on this however.
It would be a nice revelation to 'swift boat' the Shrillary campaign with though if it did come out.
bump.
Sandy Burglar stole important documents for the Clintons, no doubt. No matter what, Hillary cannot be allowed to steal the 08 election.
BTTT
What is a millwright?
Cyborg, do you remember, not too long after TWA, a story about a cache of weapons being found buried at a NY beach?
I remember hearing that on 1010Wins. I've never been able to find a print article on it.
Clinton covered up for the Islamofascists because he prefered his adolescent wank jobs in the "Oval" to the heavy lifting of the Presidency. Same with Flight 800 and all else to do with Islamofascism ....
I agree the case should be reopened and listed as an Islamofascist attack until proven otherwise.
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