July 1996: Gore was named chairman of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety, to investigate the TWA crash.

September 9: Gore held a press conference to announce the commission’s preliminary report that promised, "to take the strongest measures possible to reduce the risk of terrorism and sabotage to airline passengers and crews."

September 19: Gore sent a letter to airline lobbyist Carol Hallett promising that the commission's findings would not result in any loss of revenue.

September 20: the Democratic National Committee received $40,000 from TWA.

Within two weeks, Northwest, United and American Airlines contribute $55,000. According to the Washington Times, Whitehouse Spokesman, Ginny Terzano gave no denial when asked whether Al Gore solicited these airline donations personally.

Within the two months leading up to the November elections, American Airlines donated $250,000, United donated $100,000, Northwest donated $53,000.

January, 1997: Gore floated a draft final report that eliminated all security measures from the commission's findings, according to an insider. Two commission members balked, as did CIA Director John Deutch. Gore pulled back the draft report.

In February of 1997, Victoria Cummock called the report "toothless." She informed Gore that unless specific implementation dates were added in the report she would file a dissent, because the airline industry would not have to do anything until such measures were mandated.

On February 12, 1997, an open meeting was held on the commission’s final report. Gore made a point to inform Ms. Cummock that he would leave room for her dissent to the final report. NBC Dateline caught these comments on videotape. Also on videotape was Mr. Gore presenting the final report to President Clinton minutes later and pronouncing that the report had unanimous consent. But it didn’t.

February 12: Final report issued. The report had no implementation dates. It suggested things such as:

• Conduct airport vulnerability assessments and develop action plans
• Require criminal background checks and FBI fingerprint checks for all screeners, and all airport and airline employees with access to secure areas
• Significantly expand the use of bomb-sniffing dogs
• Complement technology with automated passenger profiling
• Certify screening companies and improve screener performance
• Aggressively test existing security systems
• Use the Customs Service to enhance security
• Give properly cleared airline and airport security personnel access to the classified information they need to know
• Begin implementation of full bag-passenger match · Providing more compassionate and effective assistance to families of victims
• Improve passenger manifests
• Significantly increase the number of FBI agents assigned to counter-terrorism investigations, to improve intelligence, and to crisis response
• Provide anti-terrorism assistance in the form of airport security training to countries where there are airports served by airlines flying to the US

In the discovery process a memo was discovered from a CIA staffer, specializing in psychological profiling. According to The American Spectator, the memo stated that Cummock could be "kept in line if she believes progress could be made" but "could become a major problem."

Other political documents in the files include speech drafts and fundraising documents detailing meetings with airline industry executives who contributed heavily to the Democratic Party while the Gore commission was deliberating over security proposals that could have cost the industry millions of dollars.

Because no outsider knew about the existence of these documents in the Transportation Department archives before Cummock's suit prevailed last year, they were not produced for congressional committees probing the 1996 Clinton-Gore fundraising.

The American Spectator, October 2000 LENGTH: 2320 words "TWA 800's Final Dissent The woman who called Al Gore and Jim Hall's bluff," by John B. Roberts II.

CUMMOCK, APPELLANT v. ALBERT GORE, JR., ET AL., APPELLEES UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT 336 U.S. App. D.C. 347; 180 F.3d 282; decided June 18, 1999.