I would like to say a couple words about the revolution and the history of intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature. Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. Even at the college level, we do not delve into the importance of intelligence during the american revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of the british over the americans, the british at almost every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been battle colonies didas the colon not. The americans had a small Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, that we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not actually support independence. Less than half of continental americans support independence. Thousands fought for the british. And many of
History at the time ensued. Eventually the u. S. Government offered their best explanation for what happened. To this day though, many still question if they got it right. This is a cnn special report, witnessed the crash of twa flight 800. We saw two fire balls go to the water. Twa 800 exploded right in front of me. I knew right away there were no survivors and it was kind of a sickening feeling. I saw a bright light and then white smoke plume behind it. And an explosion. I do believe i saw a missile. There was obviously some suspicion that it might be a terrorist act. We do not know what caused this tragedy. I want to say that again. We do not know as of this moment. The investigation was looking at almost every possibility including state actors. Definitely thought about gadhafi and libya. We were at iraq and saddam hussein. The president was prepared to take whatever action needed to be taken. A huge potential crime scene. This investigation would have been one of the largest carri