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From: "DOC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: CAS: CNN'S DISGRACE
Reed Irvine wrote:
Dear XXXXXXXXXX:
Thanks for your help. It is now nearly 4 p.m., and still no word
from anyone at CNN. I feel obliged to send out the following commentary.
Reed Irvine
--Begin Commentary--
July 20, 2001
FEAR OF EYEWITNESSES
* Jack Cashill, the producer of a video that shows the evidence that TWA
Flight 800 was shot down by missiles, was invited to appear on Greta Van
Susteren's show on CNN on July 17, the fifth anniversary of that tragic
accident. This had been set up the day before, with Cashill as the only
guest. The next day the producer told him that James E. Hall, the chairman
of the National Transportation Safety Board under President Clinton, would
also be on the show.
* Only a few hours before the show, the producer told Cashill that Hall
would not do the show with him, and they had decided to have Hall as the
only guest. Cashill says, "Someone upstairs told her that responsible
journalism means I can't appear on the show without a counterbalance, but
it's okay for Jim Hall to appear by himself." A lot of viewers who had
expected to see Cashill were angry when CNN put on only Jim Hall.
* Hall had meekly obeyed orders from the FBI not to allow any eyewitnesses
to testify at the NTSB public hearing on the evidence in the case. Greta
Van Susteren showed her hand by asking Hall if he was "100 percent certain
that the conspiracists (sic) who say they saw a white light traveling
skyward, zigzagging, disappearing and then an orange ball of fire...are
wrong?" Hall said, "(W)ith 100 percent certainty...based on the facts that
we developed, they are wrong."
* The alleged "proof" is found in a transcript of a talk given to the NTSB
witness group by a CIA analyst that is on the NTSB and other TWA 800 Web
sites. The analyst said they had been trying to figure out what source
there could be for the streak of light that 260 eyewitnesses said they had
seen. On Dec. 30, 1996, he got the idea "that you can explain what the
eyewitnesses are seeing with only the burning aircraft." He claimed he got
this idea from the FBI reports of their interviews of one man, who, he
said, "may be one eyewitness" who saw the whole thing. That man is Michael
Wire, who six days after the crash told the FBI in a phone call what he had
seen and then provided greater detail in an interview six days later.
* The FBI reports say that standing on a drawbridge near Westhampton, Long
Island, Wire saw a zigzagging white light going "skyward from the ground"
at about a 40-degree angle. He first saw it "just above the roof top" of a
house that blocked his view of the beach. It arched over and headed out to
sea on a southeasterly course. He lost sight of it just before he saw an
orange fireball falling into the ocean, trailing fire, that disappeared
behind a house east of the one where he first saw the white light. He then
heard the first and loudest of four explosions. It shook the 70-ton bridge.
* Wire's account of what he saw did not fit the CIA analyst's theory that
the white light Wire saw was TWA 800. Wire told the FBI he had seen the
white light come "off the beach" and "off the ground," first appearing just
above the roof top of a house. It was climbing at about a 40-degree angle
and zigzagging. That could not have been TWA 800, which was about ten miles
away at an altitude of 13,800 feet and was not zigzagging upward at a
40-degree angle.
* The CIA analyst's story was pure fabrication. He didn't dream that his
talk and Wire's FBI reports would ever be made public. He told the witness
group that there was a problem with Wire's first interview, but that was
cleared up when the CIA had the FBI interview him again and Wire said that
he first saw the light higher in the sky than the FBI report indicated. The
analyst didn't mention the problem of the forty-degree-angle-zigzagging
ascent. Wire was not re-interviewed by the FBI; he has never changed his
story, and he says that the CIA claim that all that he saw was TWA 800 is
nonsense.
The CIA produced a video based on this fabrication, showing the crippled
jet, minus its nose, climbing like a rocket. The FBI showed this when they
announced that they were ending their investigation. Portions of it were
aired by the TV networks without exposing its absurdity. Hall won't debate
anyone who knows this, because the Big Lie would be exposed. CNN's
substitution of Hall for Cashill in the name of "responsible journalism" is
a disgrace. Phillip Kent, the president of CNN News, promised me an
explanation within an hour. That was 30 hours ago.
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