Smoked & Choked - Flight 93

Effwit just keeps churning out interesting commentary on Flight 93. Here's a follow-up comment to the previous one.

Effwit said...

All the families know is what they heard on the tapes that were played to them a year or two ago. These tapes show no successful entry by the passengers into the cockpit--kinda scotching the heroic passengers bringing the plane down before it could be used on a Washington target.

The Flight 93 families were expressly told not to talk about what they heard on the tapes. Sworn to secrecy according to some of them. They still are emotionally (and financially, as you point out) tied to the "heroes" story.

That's all that any of the families know that differs from the official narrative. AFAIK.

The whole reason for the big payoff in the first place was to force the victim's families to sign away their rights to sue the government and the airlines.

No lawsuits, no discovery phase of a trial. Simplifies the cover-up enormously.

The malefactors weren't spending their money anyway. It was the taxpayers' dollars.