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From: rdelephant@aol.com (RDElephant)

Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater

Subject: USAF decides NO SAFETY PROBE re Brown crash

Date: 1 May 1996 17:23:31 -0400



USA Today reported on p3a of todays edition that the Air Force "in a

controversial move" will forgo a safety probe of the Brown crash, skipping

straight to a legal inquiry. The article quotes a former accident

investigator for both the NTSB and the Air Force, Alan Diehl, as saying

"They just want to blame the dead pilots and go home". 



The lead paragraph describes this  as a "rare move".The decision was made

by Gen. Michael Ryan, CINC USAF in Europe, who is overseeing the

investigation, according to the article. The Pentagon claims the report

will be out in five weeks rather than the year or longer should a full

safety probe be conducted. The article goes on to explain that because

witness statements in safety probes are privileged and thus may not be

used in later legal actions, personnel are far freer to be open in the

safety probe than in the legal phase. Ray Poole, a retired AF lieutenant

colonel explains in the article that the purpose of the safety probe is to

get to people before they talk to lawyers, "If the legal guys get in there

they intimidate them." Poole says that "...I can't imagine anyone being to

forthcoming"  in the legal proceeding and Diehl, who still works for the

AF as a consultant adds, " The military values loyalty over truth". 



I will be anxious to hear the comments of Sprunt and others re this

surprising turn of events. As an aside, the very next page of this

morning's USA Today covered the continued search for Ex-CIA director 

Colby.



[...]



Randy D. Ellison



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