-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: TWA800: Pro-Govt Book Reviewed Date: Monday, February 14, 2000 4:52 AM The following is a review of a new government-line book on Flight 800 posted at this site: http://twa800.webjump.com . The book was written by Christine Negroni, the CNN reporter who kept calling me over several days pleading with me to renounce the Navy-missile theory on camera for CNN. They wanted to fly a video crew down from New York to Maryland to record my renunciation of the Navy-missile theory, which I informed her I was inclined to do since I was afraid that the media would destroy me or someone would be gunning for me unless I decisively renounced the Navy-missile theory. While I wasn't laughing, she said a death threat against me merely displayed a "wicked sense of humor." I refused to do an on-camera interview and said I don't think this is newsworthy. I eventually agreed to write a statement. Christine Negroni also called Pierre Salinger hoping to arrange a joint renunciation. While in an act of self- preservation Salinger said he would stop talking about the Navy-missile theory, unlike myself, Salinger had the courage and experience with the media not allow himself to be intimidated into renouncing his beliefs, and thus he refused to be involved with CNN's scheme. I have yet to see Negroni's new book, but this sounds about right: ============================================================== Deadly Departure - Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How it Could Happen Again Christine Negroni / Cliff Street Books 2000 Reviewed February 2000 @ twa800.webjump.com Serious observers of the TWA Flight 800 disaster should contumeliously dismiss Ms. Negroni's book. The author's understanding of this complex subject is so manifestly superficial that one presumes she is blissfully unaware of just how execrable this book is. Surely she does not realize the extent to which her work is at times offensive, defamatory and factually misleading. Offensive? Her ham-handed attempts to reconstruct the thoughts and actions of the flight crew after the initial explosion are in questionable taste. Worse, she cites the names of individual passengers and describes their injuries in gruesome detail. Apparently the author believes public understanding of this event is somehow furthered by revealing by name which individuals were "torn to pieces" and of whom only "bones were recovered." Defamatory? Consider Ivor Thomas. Mr. Thomas is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on aviation fuel systems with over forty years in the airplane industry. As a Boeing employee and a participant in the NTSB investigation into TWA 800, Thomas has devoted his career to enhancing fuel system safety. After the public hearings, Thomas left Boeing to continue this work at the FAA. Negroni smears his integrity as follows: "Thomas had disregarded the need for fuel system explosion protection mechanisms from the time he arrived on Boeing property in 1966. Now he would be the person air safety regulators turned to for guidance." Consider Linda Kunz. Kunz photographically documented irregularities with the NTSB procedures for tagging wreckage to identify which debris zone it was found in. As a TWA representative and authorized party to the NTSB investigation, Kunz forwarded these photographs to her superiors in order to generate corrective action. Negroni describes this action as being "in violation of the FBI rules at the hangar" and says that Kunz "very nearly got TWA kicked off the investigation." Negroni fails to examine why "FBI rules" were in effect in the hangar or how Ms. Kunz's action should be construed as misconduct. Consider the aviation industry as a whole. Negroni's central thesis is difficult to identify since the book is constructed in random fashion, chaotically veering from topic to topic without regard to chronology or coherence. However, it seems to be that "the experts", i.e. the airplane manufacturers, the airlines and the government regulatory agencies have long been engaged in a "conspiracy of inaction" with regard to the supposed hazards of fuel tank explosions. She presents the rejection of fuel tank inerting systems on commercial airliners not as an engineering decision, but as a mercenary gamble with safety. Factually misleading? Negroni posted the following comment to amazon.com: "My book is a trip into the heart of the most massive and expensive crash investigation ever conducted and the only account of what caused the 25-year old jumbo jet to self- destruct." Of course, the book offers no such account. The subject of the ignition source is oddly addressed, with a half-hearted nod to the expected NTSB probable cause of a wiring spark within the center wing tank. Negroni supports her claim that the aircraft self-destructed by saying: "the plane could have exploded because of a microscopically small buildup of chemicals on tiny wires in the heart of the plane." This is a reference to the NTSB theory that a short circuit in the Fuel Quantity Indicator System (FQIS) could have been the ignition source, but Negroni does not state that this happened, nor does she point out the absence of physical evidence to support that theory. Negroni cites examples of accidents from the 1950's and 1960's where aircraft fuel tanks were ignited as a result of lightning strikes and runway collisions. She does not seem to understand how these externally caused accidents fail to support her claim that TWA 800 "self-destructed." Negroni's analysis appears to be marred by an inexplicable misconception, as if she were convinced that establishing the TWA center wing tank as potentially explosive somehow rules out the possibility of an external ignition source. The most obvious potential external source, based on eyewitness accounts, is of course a missile. Instead of conducting even a modicum of investigative journalism on this subject, Negroni parrots official pronouncements of the FBI and NTSB. In an astounding passage, she writes: "Still, investigators didn't need witnesses to tell them if a missile shot down the plane. If that had happened there would have been plenty of evidence on the wreckage and very likely debris from the weapon itself in the water along with the plane." With more than eight tons of TWA 800 wreckage still unrecovered, Negroni is somehow confident that evidence of a missile attack could not have escaped detection. She further discredits eyewitness accounts, citing psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and describing the recollections as "contaminated by the rampant speculation immediately following the crash." She also seems to have confused the CIA theory that eyewitnesses mistook a supposedly climbing, noseless aircraft for a missile with an even more bizarre theory espoused by yet another psychologist, Dr. Donald Mershon. He seems to believe that a second explosion of fuel mist traveled in a "vertical path (that) probably gave the appearance of something going up toward the plane. It could have given the impression of something reaching another object and exploding." Negroni is content to present these theories without critical examination and makes no mention of the contradictory findings in the still officially suppressed NTSB Exhibit 4A. Negroni seems to operate in a skepticism-free zone with regard to the official investigation. A minor, but telling example relates to the prosecution of James Sanders. Negroni writes: "Since Sanders was a journalist, law enforcement had to get clearance from the Department of Justice to obtain phone records and track down his source inside the hangar." In fact, "law enforcement" broke the law in this matter. Justice Department regulations do indeed require the approval of the Attorney General prior to issuing a subpoena for telephone records of journalists. (Section 28, 50.10 of the Code of Federal Regulations) But according to the August 21, 1998 issue of Editor and Publisher magazine: "The U.S. attorney for the eastern district of New York, working with the FBI, had said it did not need Reno's permission for the March 1 subpoena because James Sanders, the target of the investigation, was not a working reporter. John Russell, a Justice Department spokesman, said that Reno gave written approval for the subpoena on Aug. 1. 'We didn't think he was a newsman when the subpoena was issued in March,' said Russell, a former reporter for the Scripps- Howard newspaper chain. 'But we subsequently determined he was a bona fide journalist.' The subpoena in this case was sought by Valerie Caproni, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of a federal grand jury investigation, and Benton J. Campbell, another assistant U.S. attorney. Russell declined to say whether Caproni, Campbell, or the person they report to, Zachary Carter, U.S. attorney for the eastern district, would be disciplined." Not an important issue with respect to the tragedy of TWA Flight 800, but a good reporter or a careful researcher wouldn't miss it. Deadly Departure makes it abundantly clear that Ms. Negroni is neither. 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