◼ TWA Flight 800 Investigators Break Silence - FOX News
The day the news broke on this tragedy, I had a feeling that this was no accident. The "exploding fuel vapor" story just never sat well with me, because my instincts told me that if such a thing was really possible, it would have happened on another flight long before this one. There were initial reports of a streak of light heading skyward just before the crash, but they were quickly downplayed, and disappeared entirely from the media coverage within a few hours. Now it seems the plot has thickened...
"A handful of aviation experts, including a number of investigators who were part of the original probe of TWA Flight 800, have come forward in a new documentary to say evidence points to a missile as the cause of the crash off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago...."
"We don't know who fired the missile," said Jim Speer, an accident investigator for the Airline Pilots Association, one of a half-dozen experts seeking a new review of the probe. "But we have a lot more confidence that it was a missile."
The group is comprised of people who worked for the National Transportation Safety Board, TWA and the Airline Pilots Association, all of whom have since retired. All six say that the evidence shows the plane was brought down by a projectile traveling at a high speed.
“It all fits like a glove,” said Tom Stalcup, a physicist who is considered one of the foremost independent researchers and participated in the documentary, said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is what it is and all the evidence is there.”
Hank Hughes, a retired senior accident investigator for NTSB, said probers were not allowed to seek answers once the FBI took over the crime scene. "We just want to see the truth come out," Hughes said. "We don't have hidden agendas. The only thing we are looking for is the truth."
If it turns out that this investigation was a sham, and it was indeed a missile that brought that flight down, there's going to be some explaining to do. Specifically, who was involved, where did they get the missile, and why was the American public lied to? I don't know if it has always been this way, but regardless, it's beginning to look like the truth has become a scarce commodity in Washington.
Wednesday, June 19
Saturday, June 15
"So, just out of curiosity; are we requiring background checks on the folks we are funneling arms to in Syria?"
Ya know? (Fellow Right Wing Nuts)
Wednesday, June 12
Three Days Of The Condor
We've always known they were listening.
Now you have the IRS sharing private information with the President's campaign apparatus. Is PRISM doing the same> How much information does "Obama for America" have?
You gave the Chicago machine unfettered access to every nook and cranny. Unfettered access to all the sealed divorce records. And then you not only turned your back while they raid the candy store, the media vociferously covered for them.
Only one man stood up. They're calling him a traitor. The traitors are those who know and say nothing.
Tuesday, June 11
Sunday, June 9
May he live to see his 30th birthday.
◼ An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he was the man who had leaked details of a top secret U.S. surveillance programme, acting out of conscience to protect "basic liberties for people around the world."
Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, 29, said he had thought long and hard before publicising details of an NSA programme codenamed PRISM, saying he had done so because he felt his country was building an unaccountable and secret espionage machine that spied on every American.
Both the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper - to whom he gave the documents he had purloined - published his identity on Sunday.
"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things ... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under," he told the Guardian, which published a video interview with him on its website.
"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards," he said....
Snowden's decision to reveal his identity and whereabouts lifts the lid on one of the biggest security leaks in U.S. history and escalates a story that has embarrassed the administration of President Barack Obama.
His decision to go public also potentially exposes him to the wrath of the U.S. authorities. The Guardian compared him to Bradley Manning, a soldier now on trial for aiding the enemy, for passing classified military and state department files to anti-secrecy website Wikileaks.
Snowden, who said he had left his girlfriend in Hawaii without telling her where he was going, said he knew the risk he was taking, but thought the publicity his revelations had garnered in the past few days had made it worth it.
"My primary fear is that they will come after my family, my friends, my partner. Anyone I have a relationship with," he said. "I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. I am not going to be able to communicate with them. They (the authorities) will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night."
He spoke of his willingness to give up a comfortable life in Hawaii, where he earned about $200,000 a year: "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
Within minutes of Snowden's name being revealed by the Guardian he had become an instant folk hero.
DRUDGE HEADLINES TELL THE STORY:
VIDEO: The 29-year-old source behind biggest intelligence leak in NSA history explains his motives...
'I do not expect to see home again'...
'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'...
'I believed in Obama's promises'...
'Presidents openly lie to secure the office'...
'Government has granted itself power it is not entitled to'...
Suggests he's defecting -- to China?
Congressman: 'Can You Trust This Administration with Your Phone Records?'
Few options for online users to avoid spying...
Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans...
Holder 'destroyed data'...
NYTIMES: Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program...
Credibility challenged...
Greenwald: USA wants to destroy privacy worldwide...
Snooping revelations cause trouble for allies...
Backlash over snooping intensifies...
Government to open criminal probe into leaks about leaks...
Whistleblower's NSA warning: 'Just the tip of the iceberg'...
CODE NAMED: Boundless Informant...
Justice Dept Fights Release of Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance...
USA spends $80 billion year on secret information gathering...
Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'...
Rand Paul: 'I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court'...
Friday, June 7
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