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September 5, 2010

Russia is covering-up the assassination of the Polish Government. Obama remains silent. UN remains silent. MSM remains silent.


Looks Like the Fix Is In:
Russia's Polish Crash Investigation
From the desk of Diana West - The Brussels Journal

It's never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, cabinet ministers, military service chiefs, intelligence officials, the central bank president, parliamentarians, historians, decapitating the conservative government and gutting the country's elite.

Given the occasion -- the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's long-denied massacre of
22,000 Poles at Katyn Forest -- and given many of the crash victims' dedication to exposing Soviet-era treachery and opposing Putin-era Russian expansionism, was the cras
h, as reported, an epically tragic accident? Even as the Russians immediately cited "pilot error" (they did wait, as former CIA officer Eugene Poteat has noted, until after the plane had gone down), they also pledged to Poland a joint, transparent investigation. But four months later, Russian obfuscation casts doubt on both notions: pilot error and Russian cooperation. Little wonder that Polish parliamentarian Antoni Marcierewicz, a member of the late president's conservative Law and Justice Party, has recently announced a parliamentary probe into the crash, which he calls a "crime."

What sort of crime? I caught up with the story's latest twists at BigPeace.com (where I am a contributor) in a post called "Polish Airplane Crash Cover-Up?" After seeking attribution for the post's more sensational clues from a Polish journalist, I believe that "cover-up" might turn out to be the least of the problem.

Point one. Russia hasn't turned over the plane's black boxes to Polish investigators. This may well follow an odd, post-crash agreement between the two countries, whereby Russia provides Poland with recordings of the black boxes and Poland controls the recordings' release (typical Russian-Polish agreement). But it also hoists a red flag over the entire investigative process. After all, "who" might have done "what" to a black box in a Russian recording studio?

Meanwhile, writing in the Polish newspaper Nasz Dziennik, some Polish pilots have challenged the authenticity of the recordings. Among other aeronautical reasons, they cited the length of the transcript, which appears to exceed the 30-minute capacity of a black box tape. The pilots also noted the transcript is missing the signature of the sole Polish expert involved. Further, Polish Radio RMF has reported that one of the Russian-made black-box recordings contains a 16-second gap.

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10 comments:

T. F. Stern said...

Little red flags of waving a caution not to believe any part of the official report on this one. Thanks for keeping it in the public eye since CNN, CBS, BSNBC and the others refuse to do their job.

Rhod said...

My theory on Russia. 75 years of totalitarianism wiped out the nation's moral gene, and made organized gangsterism normal and even necessary. Solzhenitsyn was the exception that proves the rule.

As far as I know, there is no important modern Russian literature, or art in general, or educational institutions, or Russian adavances, or peace technology (that isn't stolen), that would condition the Russian habit for brutality.

The country is also in a state of hyper-mortality, with a criminal, sick, rapidly declining population with permeable Asian borders.

Putin is the only kind of "leader" you can expect in a cess pool like Russia, because they understand and deserve nothing else. The chaotic end for Russia is less than a generation away.

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

You can mean to say the Russians are underhanded and the commies around the world would cover it up ... oh my, I'm just so surprised.

Subvet said...

Move along folks, nothing to see here, move along.

sig94 said...

The Soviets destroyed the moral fiber of Russia when they neutered the Russian Church. They substituted the State For God with predictable results. Once you are no longer held accountable to a moral and righteous, Holy God, well - anything goes.

Stalin was not an abberration, he was inevitable.

Since the ascension of the Bolsheviks, Russia must be treated as a juvenile delinquent - now controlling an army and nuclear weapons.

Rhod said...

"Stalin was not an aberration, he was inevitable".

Churchillian.

Kid said...

Who puts all their eggs in one basket? I've known many butthole companies that don't fly their principals on the same aircraft..

Anonymous said...

Kid,

Good point. I'm with Rhod that with the Russians all things (bad things, that is) are possible. My very first reaction when this occurred was that it was too much of a coincidence, and on the anniversary of the Katyn Forest massacre to boot.

Back to the caption below, I think the real answer is ... "If Bush saw inside my soul, how come he didn't see this ... my heart."

Kid said...

DC, Great caption.

Regards Russia. Even good people will do evil when backed into a corner. I just don't see Russia as a country that has even more than one duck lined up.

I don't think I'll ever understand GW Bush's Putin comment.

sig94 said...

I think Bush registered this observation when Putin was bent over tying his shoelaces. Yeah, he saw his soul; and his name and address too.