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Title: Altered Evidence by James D. Sanders ISBN: 0-9676658-0-9 Publisher: Accuracy in Media Pub. Date: 30 November, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Paranoid, moi?
Comment: The sheer size of the alleged conspiracy is what makes the author's thesis absurd and untenable. No leaks from any of the thousands that had to have been involved? Cover-ups and lies not only from bogeyman feds and Clinton admin, but lowly sailors, airport workers and public employees? I don't think so. And neither should you.
This febrile, demented garbage is all of a piece with the most paranoid conspiracy theories of the age, chiefly out of the so-called libertarian right, from Waco, to Mena airport, to Vince Foster's suicide, right through to the protocols of the elders of Zion. There is not one single solitary piece of hard evidence to back it up. All the discrepancies and confusions in the TWA 800 story resulted from the FBI and the NTSB having to share an investigation and not being used to it. And guess what. Some discrepancies might be the result of honest errors.
One irony is that, like these authors with the aluminum foil covers on their heads, the investigators originally thought it was a bomb or a missile. Only the evidence led them to realise it was not, and that the center tank exploded because it was full of inflammable vapors. It happened before, and unless the NTSB's recommendations are carried through, it will happen again.
Neither a bomb, nor an errant missile, nor angry aliens. This was an aviation industry standard crash.
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm shocked at the media.
Comment: I felt very saddened by the state of the media in the USA. It confirmed my suspicion I had based on other news issues, that the minds of the media are owned by corporations. Any reader of this book will soon appreciate his/her local free press.
Rating: 5
Summary: Altered Evidence - well worth reading
Comment: Compared to his "The Downing of TWA Flight 800", this new book by James Sanders,"Altered Evidence" provides a lot more information about the tragedy and its aftermath. There is much more information concerning the "friendly fire" thesis, a considerable quantity of information concerning the legal case and trial of James and Elizabeth Sanders, and relevant analysis of the author's concerns about the current state of America's news media.
A reader may approach "Altered Evidence" with the question as to whether James Sanders has retreated from the "friendly fire" scenario he was advocating in print almost three years ago. The answer to that question is clearly a loud and definitive "No!". In examining how "Altered Evidence" approaches the "friendly fire" missile scenario, it immediately becomes apparent that the topic displays two major divisions: evidence suggestive of an exterior hit upon TWA Flight 800 by one or more U.S. missiles, and efforts of the government to conceal that possibility.
In analyzing the federal reaction to the destruction of TWA flight 800, author Sanders discusses some of the strategic milestones in what he considers the government's concealment of the true nature of the tragedy. According to this view, the knowledge that TWA Flight 800 had been struck by one or more missiles was known by officials almost immediately. Another key development was the formation and execution of a investigative strategy to allow the FBI to control the flow of TWA Flight 800-related information and to permit it to maintain a tightly controlled investigation. Sanders calls this technique the "crime scene scheme", and it results in a condition he calls the "sanctity of the crime scene facade"."Altered Evidence" explains how those strategies were constructed and carried out.
The book examines a great many other topics in addition to those referred to above. For example, there is more on the mysterious "red residue" subject...more on the dubious "canine explosives exercise" story...more on the Navy and its exotic CEC program...much more on the radar data...more on eyewitnesses to the disaster....and lots more on official behind-the-scenes conduct.
Chapters 17 through 41 tell the story of the pursuit of James and Elizabeth Sanders by the FBI and their prosecution by the Justice Department after it had become known that James had acquired and tested residues which had been found by official investigators in a small, well-defined, and crucial part of the TWA Flight 800 reconstruction. The legal issues involved are important and interesting, and from these pages it is not difficult to appreciate why the Sanderses are appealing the convictions the government achieved against them. Persons who followed the trial in the media should read these chapters carefully to survey the issues from the point of view of the defendants before arriving at their own personal verdicts on the case.
I think one of the most interesting chapters in the entire book is Chapter 42. It carries the title "Propaganda or Journalism?" In general, it is an energetic philippic against the American news media, which author Sanders believes has grown fat feeding at the trough of official sources and no longer has the ethics, heart or legs for energetic and independent investigative reporting. Dan Rather takes a hit as well...as does "Good Morning America"...."Dateline" (that's three networks already!)...the "New York Times"...and other journalists who have echoed the official line on TWA Flight 800.
Each of these instances is interesting support for the Sanders view that the media is not a part of a vast and active government/communications conspiracy, but that the media has developed a world-view in which government spokespersons and their minions are given every benefit of the doubt while "outsiders" with contrary information and opinions are subjected to mass media hostility, ridicule, or the cold shoulder.
I enjoyed reading "Altered Evidence" by James Sanders, and I think this is a very useful book. I recommend it to anyone who has any interest whatever in the TWA Flight 800 case, for the current status of the American legal system or of the American news media. There is disquieting information in this book, and I am sure portions of it will spark debate among persons having an interest in what happened on July 17, 1996.
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Title: The Downing of TWA Flight 800 by James Sanders, Jim Sanders ISBN: 0821758292 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: First Strike : TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America ISBN: 0785263543 Publisher: WND Books Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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