The major media has tried to frame private investigative journalists such as James Sanders and myself as having invented the story that the military was involved in the crash of TWA Flight 800. That sham is exposed by the fact that the first reports of a possible connection to the military came from the major media itself. As Chris Bury said only hours after the crash on Nightline (7/17/96): "The U.S. Coast Guard tells Nightline that about 8:30 tonight, a New York State Air National Guard C-130 was performing some kind of pyrotechnic exercise, perhaps setting off flares, off the southern shore of Long Island..." [The time of the crash was 8:31 PM.] Bury then reported that calls came in right away of "flares" being fired and he hypothesized a connection between witness accounts of flares and the activities of the C-130, saying: "At about 8:30 tonight they got numerous calls both from boaters and from people on Long Island of perhaps flares going off from this C-130." [It turned out that the flares eyewitnesses observed were shooting upwards, such as revealed in an account given on Nightline that night: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/forgot01.htm ] ABC anchor Chris Bury then committed perhaps the last act of investigative inquiry by the major media in the Flight 800 case when he questioned: "Did the C-130 have anything to do with tonight's crash?" The official answer was "no," and a few days later the stated location of the C-130, along with that of other military assets, was changed from having been close to the crash to having been further away and not involved in any kind of "pyrotechnic exercise." The Coast Guard's report on Nightline was then forgotten. At the FBI's final Flight 800 press conference (11/17/97) a reporter observed: "Within 24 hours of this disaster there were stories of military friendly fire circulating; they were not stories that happened later." Even as the major media knows that, they consistently frame friendly- fire theories as a hoax created later by individuals like James Sanders and myself. The major media have made no real effort to challenge the government; they have instead bent over backwards to defend the government and inflict catastrophic injury upon private individuals who display the rare courage to challenge the government. Perhaps the most injured individual has been James Sanders, who was financially wiped out while unsuccessfully defending his right to engage in time-honored investigative journalism after his inside source removed small pieces of evidence to (http://Flight800.org/res1.html) be subjected to independent testing. Sanders even gave CBS some of the material so that they too could test it, but they obediently returned it to the FBI without testing it or telling their viewers about it. The following is the first part of a series on James Sanders, who has paid a high price for speaking out: ================== NEWSMAX.COM =================== ================================================== http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/11/32922 ================================================== TWA 800: 'Obstruction of Justice Was Ongoing' January 11, 2000 First in a NewsMax.com exclusive series of installments based on James D. Sanders' book "Altered Evidence," exposing the government's tampering with evidence, cover-up and misleading the public in the crash of TWA Flight 800. It has it all: political villains, a lawless "Justice" Department and government shills masquerading as major media journalists. Two hundred thirty-five years ago John Adams warned that "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right . . . and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers." The Clinton administration began its shameful march through the 1990s by framing Billy Dale, longtime head of the White House Travel Office. The FBI enthusiastically joined in the mandated witch hunt to use the awesome power entrusted by "We The People" to the government in a shameless effort to frame and destroy Dale. Simultaneously, the Justice Department engaged in a sordid affair now simply known as "Waco," and the cover-up of the death of Vince Foster soon followed. Bimbo eruptions saw White House harassment, intimidation and vilification of a multitude of women. Every step of the way, major media's first reaction has been to help the Clinton administration destroy the messenger. Reluctantly, grudgingly, major media have occasionally engaged in timid, superficial coverage of the immoral/unethical/criminal act of the moment. But never, ever have major media sallied forth when the end result could be the destruction of the Clinton administration. "Altered Evidence" gives the reader an inside view of what happens in America today when a journalist takes on a hopelessly corrupt government. The introduction to "Altered Evidence" by James Sanders follows. * * * I'm a retired police officer and investigative journalist. For almost 15 years I have used the skills learned on the job in Southern California law enforcement to investigate wrongdoing within the federal government. This is my fourth book related to the subject. On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 with 230 passengers and crew, crashed less than 10 miles south of Long Island. All on board died. During the first hours after the crash, the airwaves were filled with eyewitness accounts of a missile streaking up into the air and a plane falling from the sky. Within two months the New York Times was carrying Flight 800 stories that sounded more like FBI propaganda than journalism. And NBC Evening News became the preferred method by which the National Transportation Safety Board began to spin a story around a mysterious mechanical event that may have been the cause of it all. Reporters began to tell me stories that questioned the official government line, intimating that it had been spiked. Stories about Navy divers removing highly sensitive debris from the ocean floor within 48 hours after the crash; about military officers admitting off the record that a major "screw-up" had caused the crash; that Navy sources were talking of a large concentration of Navy ships south of Long Island, the launch of a drone and "friendly fire." I eventually developed sources within the government and the Flight 800 investigation. A stream of documents -- and forensic evidence -- became available establishing beyond a doubt that obstruction of justice was ongoing at the senior-most levels of those government agencies that controlled the investigation. I wrote a book entitled "The Downing of TWA Flight 800." Released in April 1997, it provided the American public with a view of the TWA Flight 800 investigation never before revealed. Next: Missile Evidence Doesn't Lie [ FULL INTRO: http://altered-evidence.com/ch1.doc ] You may order your copy of James D. Sanders' book "Altered Evidence" from NewsMax.com's Book Store. http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/store/store.cgi?db_id=87&cart_id=5920453.2539 For more on TWA Flight 800, visit Hot Topics. http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1998/12/19/90358 ================================================== http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/11/32922 ================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm ____________________________________________________________
