DIANA WEST CONFUSION ABOUT WHY RUSSIANS ARE BAD LYING ABOUT THE CRASH
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 Diana West, Polish Plane Crash Investigation Under Suspicion ,
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"  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.

YOU ARE FOGGY - FROM ALL YOU SAY INCLUDING YOUR HYPOTHESES ABOVE
PLANE DID NOT CRASH.

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 crash, 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.
YOU WINNING WITH HYPOCRITS FROM LONDON
 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.
WHICH COVER UP YOU REFER TOO? 'COVER UP' THAT THEY ARE ALIVE?

Point one. Russia hasn't turned over the plane's black boxes to Polish
investigators.
PUTIN DOES NOT WANT TO BE LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE; AND OR THERE IS NO
BLACK BOX.
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?
NOBODY - IS NOT THERE.

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.
FOR INTELLIGENT PERSON THERE IS STILL NOT ENOUGH THAT THE IS NO
EVIDENCE ( INA LEGAL SENSE) OF THE CRASH?
Good thing no non-partisan, international team of investigators is
examining this international mystery, right?
CRIME, DEAR REPORTER THAT IS.
 Much better that the United Nations, for example, is currently
squeezing Israel for defending its lawful naval blockade on Gaza (and
concurrent offers to shuttle seaborne humanitarian aid to Gaza via
land). With former KGB officer Vladimir Putin having personally taken
charge of the crash investigation, why worry?
IF YOU MISSED - HE ALMOST KILLED ME. ME IS THE STAKEHOLDER FOR THIS
TRANSACTION, IN HIS VIEW, AT LEAST.

Point two. The Polish newspaper Fakt reported that three days after
the crash, the air traffic controller on duty during the fatal crash
disappeared. The Russians say he retired -- and no, they don't know
where he is. Uh-huh.
IS THAT A CRIMAL CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE BY ANY CHANCE?

At the website of the Institute of World Politics where he teaches, ex-
CIA officer Eugene Poteat writes that Russians "stripped the 97 dead
passengers of personal effects, luggage, laptop computers, flash
drives, cell phones, sensitive papers, names, telephone numbers,
correspondence, documents, and top secret military and diplomatic
codes -- a coup for Russia's intelligence service. ... The Russians
delayed for weeks before returning the less sensitive items, but kept
items of intelligence value. The bodies were shipped to Moscow for
`autopsies.' No Polish medical people were permitted as witnesses. ..
LOOK AT THAT BARBARITY, IF THATW AS TRUE ACIDENT - HOW AUDATE THEY
ARE.
 The bodies were returned to Poland in sealed coffins for burial and
families of the victims were not permitted to open the coffins."
MANEKINS, THAT IS WHY.
And why was that? Some survivors are exploring the autopsy process to
find out, with one parliamentarian's widow planning to exhume her late
husband's corpse to learn more about the crash circumstances.

"Poland has no doubts about Russia's good will in investigating
crash," read a headline from the Russian wire service Itar-Tass on
Aug. 7. The story quoted a Polish minister complaining about gaps in
Russia's evidence -- not that this minister for a moment doubted
Russia's investigatory good will. For its part, Russia maintains it
has already handed over everything to Poland. "There is nothing more
to transfer," said Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.

At least nothing more that wouldn't lift the fog on this mystery.

RESUMING THE GOVERMENT IN POLAND WHOULD ORIENT YOU, I ASSUME.

 Diana West's Biography Diana West is a contributing columnist for
Townhall.com and author of the new book, The Death of the Grown-up:
How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western
Civilization.

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