Tuesday, May 22, 2018

How the FBI, CIA, and NYT Collaborated to Sway the 1996 Election

The FBI grudgingly yielded to the CIA. And the New York Times dutifully reported what the FBI whispered in its reporters' ears.

The White House dealt with the Navy, but the Navy had as little as possible to do with the FBI or the CIA. The White House controlled the CIA, but the CIA did not deal with the NTSB and only rarely with the FBI. The New York Times never spoke to the CIA or the Navy.

In my own conversations with at least two of the Times reporters involved in the TWA 800 case, one in person, I was impressed by how little they knew about critical elements of the case, including the CIA participation.

" According to the CIA, within two weeks of the disaster, FBI agents had interviewed 144 "Excellent" eyewitnesses to a likely missile strike and found the evidence for such a strike "Overwhelming." The CIA analyst boasted of discouraging the FBI from releasing its missile report.

Someone near the top of this conspiracy took the task away from an untrustworthy FBI and assigned it to the CIA, specifically two CIA analysts who had no relevant expertise.

In November 1997, in closing the criminal case, the FBI showed an animation of this alleged zoom climb and attributed it to the CIA. The Times asked no questions about CIA involvement - ever - even after the world learned about the "Wall" that prevented these two agencies from cooperating in the run-up to 9-11.

Times readers still do not know that the author of the "Wall" memo, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, also oversaw the cooperation between the FBI and the CIA on the TWA 800 investigation after she wrote the memo.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/how_the_fbi_cia_and_nyt_collaborated_to_sway_the_1996_election.html

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