From CQ Politics/Spy Talk:
Revelations that the CIA misled Congress and the Justice Department about the 2001 downing of a Peruvian plane carrying American missionaries could shake loose still-secret details about another crash in the area two years earlier.
On July 23, 1999, a U.S. Army surveillance plane went down under mysterious circumstances in the mountains of Colombia near the Ecuador border.
The Defense Department's official investigation said that Army pilot Jennifer Odom lost her way in the darkness amid the high Andes. But in the weeks leading up to her doomed flight, Odom had confided to her husband, an Army colonel, that she and the crew of intelligence technicians in the back of her plane, who were supposedly eavesdropping on narcotraffickers, had been "lit up" by radar missiles in the jungle.
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My Comment: Wars always bring out the worse in people, this case is another text book example of what happens to people in war time.
While this information may be embarrassing to some of the men and women who served under President Clinton during that time ....and who are now taking positions in the new President Obama administration .... I believe this information should come out in order to bring closure to the families who suffered these personal losses, and to bring some form of accounting on the decisions that were made at that time. Will this happen .... I doubt it.