Thirty years after 230 people were killed in the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the federal government still has not come clean. The families deserved honesty. The country deserved transparency. Instead, we are left with shifting explanations, withheld evidence, and newly uncovered documents that raise serious questions about what officials knew—and when they knew it.
And the timing tells its own story. The crash came on July 17, 1996, in the middle of Bill Clinton’s reelection campaign, when the administration had every incentive to smother any suggestion that a terrorist missile had brought down a U.S. airliner off Long Island.
The recovered wreckage of TWA Flight 800 stands reassembled at...
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