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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: maceng2 who wrote (10290)11/14/2001 4:38:31 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
another quote.

This site was last updated in August this year as far as I can tell.

...08/06/01 There! I finally got a date the right way round -g-

apfn.org

<<snip>>"You'll have a hard time finding an airline pilot, off the record," who believes the official story, Donaldson said. The NTSB, he said, "has been politicized."

"There is no organized cover-up" in the conspiratorial sense, he said. Rather, in typical bureaucratic fashion, top officials let the official version be known to the people under them. In turn, lower-level investigators -- each of whom possessed only partial knowledge of the facts in the case -- assumed that the higher-ups had a basis for their theory, and set about to find the facts that would back it up.

But who made the decision that the fuel-tank theory would become the official version? "You've got to go above the NTSB and above the Justice Department to get the answer," Donaldson suggested.
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