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>From Chris Ruddy's web site:
Wednesday April 7, 1:25 AM
FBI Loses First Round in TWA 800 Case
TWA 800 defendant James Sanders was upbeat when reached by Inside
Cover late Tuesday. His trial on charges of conspiracy to obtain
secret evidence from the wreckage of the July 1996 air disaster was
only in its second day and already presiding Judge Joanna Seybert had
handed the prosecution a major defeat.
"The judge quashed the illegal seizure of my computer hard drive,
which is very good news for us, " Sanders said, referring to the FBI's
confiscation of manuscripts which he argues should be protected by the
First Ammendment. "They hadn't even bothered to get a warrant,"
Sanders complained.
The story of Sanders' independent investigation into the still
unexplained crash is told in his 1997 book, "The Downing of TWA Flight
800". As a working journalist, he obtained fabric swatches from the
plane's seats and had them analyzed by a California laboratory. Their
conclusion? Red stains on the material were identical in composition
to missile exhaust.
Despite more than a hundred eyewitnesses who told investigators they
saw a streaking object strike TWA 800 that July night, the FBI and
NTSB have discounted the missile theory. That's what makes Sanders'
discovery of missile exhaust trace evidence so problematic for the
government.
Early courtroom reactions seem to favor Sanders, with several offering
praise for his attorney Bruce Maffeo's opening arguments. But
Wednesday's session will be key.
That's when former TWA crash investigator Terry Stacey takes the
stand. Stacey is now the government's key cooperating witness against
Sanders and his wife Elizabeth, who is also named in the indictment.
The conspiracy charge rests on the allegation that Sanders solicited
Stacey to obtain the fabric samples.
Elizabeth Sanders is charged on the basis of a single conversation
with Stacey, during which her husband says the fabric evidence wasn't
even mentioned.
"Wednesday is going to be quite a day," Sanders told Inside Cover,
eagerly anticipating public exposure of what may be one of the worst
government cover-ups of the century.
Monday April 5, 4:25 PM
TWA 800 in Court
The trial of TWA 800 defendants James and Elizabeth Sanders, which
began Monday in a Uniondale, N.Y., federal courtroom, could produce
some real fireworks -- depending upon what evidence presiding Judge
Joanna Seybert lets the defense present.
James Sanders, you may recall, is the journalist who accepted a piece
of fabric taken from one of 800's seats by a TWA crash investigator,
which contained evidence contradicting the official government theory
that the July 17, 1996, disaster was accidental.
Sanders' 1997 book, "The Downing of TWA Flight 800" documented his
early investigative work. Unhappy with his report, the Justice
Department has put Sanders on trial for interfering with the official
FBI-NTSB investigation.
Cmdr. William Donaldson, whose two-year-long crusade for the truth has
made him the premier expert on the 800 disaster, has signed on as a
defense team consultant.
Friday, Donaldson told Inside Cover that the evidence he's uncovered
suggests wrongdoing that reaches to the highest levels of the White
House. Should Judge Seybert take an interest in the larger story of
how 230 souls perished off Moriches Beach that July night, this trial
could get a whole lot more intriguing than current media non-coverage
would indicate.
Both Sanders and Donaldson have promised to keep NewsMax.com apprised
of daily trial developments.
Stay tuned.
Monday April 5, 7:16 AM
White House Doves Turn to Hillary
The Clinton White House was so divided over the president's plan to
bomb the Balkans that administration doves hoped Hillary would
intercede.
That's the word from longtime Clinton nemesis Larry Nichols, who seems
to have developed a reliable White House source for the latest on the
Kosovo crisis.
For instance, Nichols knew that Clinton's war on Slobodan Milosevic
would commence precisely on March 24 -- and said so up and down the
radio dial nearly a week before it happened.
And now, other events Nichols described to Inside Cover early last
week are being confirmed by the mainstream press.
Last Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the CIA warned
Clinton that bombing would only accelerate Kosovo's refugee problem.
Now stories swirl about how Clinton overruled even his Pentagon
advisrrs on the advisability of military action.
Days before any of this hit the media, Nichols told us, "The morning
the bombing started, I found out there was a huge rift inside the
administration."
Then the onetime Clinton crony added, "In fact, if you start looking
into this, you'll find that the White House staff even called Hillary
to come home, because they hoped she'd get Bill to stop it."
Mrs. Clinton was touring Africa when her husband ordered the NATO
airstrikes on Yugoslavia. Nichols says network reporters were able to
confirm what his White House source told him about the call to Hillary
-- but have sat on the story.
It was White House fears over expected Chinagate bombshells in the
soon-to-be released Cox report that prompted Clinton to order "bombs
away" over Belgrade.
After a March 19 press conference where the president was queried
about ongoing Chinese espionage, he and his advisers met and examined
their options for a "bankable issue," Nichols said. "They expected the
Cox report to come out the next Wednesday, and they needed something
big."
A week later, Kosovo had replaced China on the front pages. According
to Nichols, Clinton was giving high-fives to his staff, telling them,
"We hit a home run."
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