“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” — Winston Churchill, speaking in an entirely different context. The case of the crash of TWA 800 back in 1996—whatever its cause may have been—has relevance today because it highlights the shortcomings of a fawning, biased, and credulous media more than willing to suppress—or at least actively ignore—inconvenient facts that would have cast the Clinton administration in a bad light. This remains relevant because many key members of the Obama administration are Clinton-era retreads, meaning they’ve had considerable experience in erecting a bodyguard of lies around their leader. It’s unfortunate that, to be effective, a bodyguard of lies needs a bodyguard of liars. As an Accuracy in Media podcast notes, . . . the media has acted, collectively, as one would expect a public relations department for the government to act.  I mean, to show this ludicrous video from the beginning, back in November of 1997, without getting any independent advice as to whether or not it was even possible, is ludicrous. Besides, there are—673 eyewitnesses called the FBI to tell them, to report what they’d seen.  So there are probably over a thousand

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