Rush Limbaugh challenged

Jack Cashill has challenged Rush Limbaugh to take his analysis of the TWA Flight 800 explosion. Here is an excerpt from the Limbaugh revelation:

In 1996, after TWA Flight 800 exploded, then-Vice President Gore chaired the Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. Algore had a $300 million budget, and according to the CNN story from September 5, 1996 which I shared with you today, ended up recommending "counterterrorism measures, better screening of airline passengers, and more teams of bomb-sniffing dogs" as well as other security measures.

But if the Clinton administration did all of this in 1996, then how did the Al-Qaeda guys sneak past this dragnet? Well, they used box cutters -- and of course that's George W. Bush's fault, because the Clinton team told them about box cutters. Richard Clarke probably wrote it down somewhere in his book. The truth is, the airline industry squawked and screamed about putting any of Algore's security measures into place, which brings us to the wife of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: Linda Hall Daschle.

Ms. Daschle was deputy manager of the FAA from 1993 to 1997, and her clients while a lobbyist include American and Northwest Airlines. Joe Farah of WorldNetDaily.com sums up how the airlines and their lobbyists jumped all over Algore after his preliminary report. Gore wrote to one lobbyist "promising that the commission's findings would not result in any loss of revenue," and the very next day the Democrat National Committee received a $40,000 donation from TWA. In the next two weeks, checks came raining in from Northwest, United and American airlines.