Posted on 11/25/2015 2:10:12 PM PST by Kevin in California
just brilliant, I am still launchin snot logs
Complete conspiracy nonsense. Let me know when the Government of Poland officially backs off its own report.
Poland’s professional accident investigators went over the scene thoroughly in 2010. Poland had full access to the site and every reason to accuse the Russians if there was any evidence and no reason to cover for Russia.
Oh shoot, we got us a thinker, hire him at a 20 % raise,retro,stat.
Law and Justice (PiS), led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski, has presented the first part of the so-called White Book report on the Smolensk tragedy of 10 April last year, days before the release of the official government version.
Law and Justice has been highly critical of both the Russian and Polish investigations into the tragedy which killed 96 politicians and top military brass, among others.
Shortly after the air crash in western Russia, the opposition party, closely associated with the late President Kaczynski, set up its own parliamentary committee headed by MP Antoni Macierewicz. The report represents the conclusions of the committee.
The White Book on Smolensk comprises 20 chapters and contains over 100 additional documents gathered and compiled by the team of Law and Justice MP investigators.
The first part of the report released today deals with alleged shortcomings of the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee's (MAK) report released last year, though all of the criticisms have been made before by Law and Justice.
The second part of the document will be issued tomorrow and will detail criticisms of the Polish government's investigation, the report of which is currently being translated into English and Russian and will be released shortly, possibly on Friday.
One of the conclusions of the first part of the Law and Justice report is that Russian protocol envisaged only the attendance of Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the 70th anniversary commemorations of the 1940 Katyn Massacre. Because of this, says the report, President Kaczynski's arrival three days later in western Russia had been given the status of a private and not official state visit.
This had the consequence of downgrading security arrangements for the party led by Lech Kaczynski, says the report.
"The decision had been taken by the Russian side but it was approved by representatives of Mr. Tusk's government," MP Antoni Macierewicz said today as he launched the report.
"Nevertheless, the decision itself had been in Russian hands. Polish diplomats were informed openly that only Prime Minister Tusk will be guaranteed security, while the President's visit remains of no interest to the Russian side," he said.
Antoni Macierewicz also stressed that the doomed presidential Tupolev 154 had undergone a general overhaul barely a year before the crash at the Aviakor plant in Russian Samara.
Law and Justice reject the conclusions of the Russian report, which blamed pilot error for the crash. Antoni Macierewicz emphasises that air traffic control at the Smolensk airport did not give clear guidance to the pilots as they approached landing.
The official Polish report also basically blamed pilot error. This article is from 2011 and says that the part of the report criticizing the Polish report would be released “tomorrow.” But there is no article about that.
In any case, “Law and Justice,” is no longer the opposition party, as it won the October Polish election - so it has the power to reopen and revisit the investigation. Let’s see if it does.
Happy Thanksgiving ETL.
The Polish Heritage Institute
April 10, 2010 - The Smolensk Crash
Was Poland’s President Assassinated?
http://www.phi966.org/the-smolensk-crash.html
Let’s see if the new “Law and Justice Polish Government” reopens the investigation. What’s wrong with that? Neither of us are air crash investigation experts (although I have watched a helluva lot of episodes of “Mayday.”)
Therefore, it seems to me, the official conclusion of the Polish government experts must stand until it is revisited by the government. They had no possible motive to exonerate Russia.
I’m betting they won’t do it. But I could be wrong.
Yeah, and dealing with Putin and his KGB-infested regime is liking dealing with the Mafia. You could easily wind up with a bullet in your head or poison in your food. You need a lot of guts to stand up to them.
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