Fwd: Gary Webb Dead: Suicide? Conspiracy? You Guess.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Gary Webb Dead: Suicide? Conspiracy? You Guess.
by BRASSCHECK.COM
Uh oh, another "suicide".
Investigative journalist Gary Webb (author of "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the
Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" joins artist Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield (author of "Fortunate Son"), and Danny Casolaro as the fourth
'suicide' by a researcher, who had a detailed understanding of the
structure and function of the Bush Crime Family.
This is the new math on the odds of the Bush suicides:
SEE:(http://www.suicidology.org/stats2001/1999datapage2.pdf)
"Examining the male U.S. suicide rate for recent years, we can extrapolate
a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000 people, or 0.017%.
"The odds of 4 specific, male biographers committing suicide would be the
4th power of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17...roughly 1 chance
10,000,000,000,000,000. "About as good a definition of impossible as you can get.
Gary Webb Dead: Suicide? Conspiracy? You Guess.
by BRASSCHECK.COM
Uh oh, another "suicide".
Investigative journalist Gary Webb (author of "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the
Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" joins artist Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield (author of "Fortunate Son"), and Danny Casolaro as the fourth
'suicide' by a researcher, who had a detailed understanding of the
structure and function of the Bush Crime Family.
This is the new math on the odds of the Bush suicides:
SEE:(http://www.suicidology.org/stats2001/1999datapage2.pdf)
"Examining the male U.S. suicide rate for recent years, we can extrapolate
a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000 people, or 0.017%.
"The odds of 4 specific, male biographers committing suicide would be the
4th power of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17...roughly 1 chance
10,000,000,000,000,000. "About as good a definition of impossible as you can get.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Cahill" <tcahill@mcn.org>
To: <Recipient List Suppressed:>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: C.I.A. Drug Trafficking
GARY WEBB - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, AUTHOR OF DARK ALLIANCE, CIA-DRUG SERIES,
DEAD OF REPORTED SUICIDE
Press Accounts Fail to Mention His Vindication by CIA Inspector General
Reports and Congressional Investigations
by Michael C. Ruppert
© Copyright 2004, From The Wilderness Publications,
www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted,
distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.
December 13, 2004 1400 PDT (FTW) - Gary Webb, 49, the Pulitzer Prize
winning reporter from the San Jose Mercury News made America hold its
breath in 1996 when he showed us proof of direct CIA involvement in drug
trafficking. For a few months many of us had hope.
He reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head two days
ago. His body was discovered at 8:20 AM Saturday as movers reportedly found
a note on the door of his residence asking them not to enter but to call
for paramedics.
Webb's August 1996 series Dark Alliance for the San Jose Mercury News
pulled deep covers away from US covert operations and American denial about
connections between the CIA and drugs. Gary left a bigger historical
footprint than anyone who has ever touched the subject including among
others, Peter Dale Scott, Alfred McCoy, Jonathan Kwitny and me.
His footprint was made possible in large part for two reasons. First, his
reporting was meticulous and produced hard records that could not be
effectively denied. Second, prominent African-American leaders like Jesse
Jackson and representatives Maxine Waters and Juanita Millender-McDonald of
Los Angeles and Compton respectively took up the torch lit by Gary and ran
with it just before the 1996 presidential election which saw Bill Clinton
win his second term just eight weeks after the stories broke. I was there
at that time and it is not an understatement to say that much of this
country was "up in arms".
Waters at one point vowed to make the CIA-drug connections, fully
documented by Webb, her "life's work" if necessary.
In death the major press is beating him almost as ruthlessly as they did in
real life. No part of the major press has acknowledged that Webb's work was
subsequently vindicated by congressional investigations and two CIA
Inspector General's reports released in 1997 and 1998. FTW did report on
Webb's vindication and his legacy has - at least at the level of authentic
journalism - not been lost.
Please see:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/RendGW.html, and
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/volii.html
For more FTW coverage of Gary Webb's life please use the search engine at
www.fromthewilderness.com.
DEAD OF REPORTED SUICIDE
Press Accounts Fail to Mention His Vindication by CIA Inspector General
Reports and Congressional Investigations
by Michael C. Ruppert
© Copyright 2004, From The Wilderness Publications,
www.fromthewilderness.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted,
distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.
December 13, 2004 1400 PDT (FTW) - Gary Webb, 49, the Pulitzer Prize
winning reporter from the San Jose Mercury News made America hold its
breath in 1996 when he showed us proof of direct CIA involvement in drug
trafficking. For a few months many of us had hope.
He reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head two days
ago. His body was discovered at 8:20 AM Saturday as movers reportedly found
a note on the door of his residence asking them not to enter but to call
for paramedics.
Webb's August 1996 series Dark Alliance for the San Jose Mercury News
pulled deep covers away from US covert operations and American denial about
connections between the CIA and drugs. Gary left a bigger historical
footprint than anyone who has ever touched the subject including among
others, Peter Dale Scott, Alfred McCoy, Jonathan Kwitny and me.
His footprint was made possible in large part for two reasons. First, his
reporting was meticulous and produced hard records that could not be
effectively denied. Second, prominent African-American leaders like Jesse
Jackson and representatives Maxine Waters and Juanita Millender-McDonald of
Los Angeles and Compton respectively took up the torch lit by Gary and ran
with it just before the 1996 presidential election which saw Bill Clinton
win his second term just eight weeks after the stories broke. I was there
at that time and it is not an understatement to say that much of this
country was "up in arms".
Waters at one point vowed to make the CIA-drug connections, fully
documented by Webb, her "life's work" if necessary.
In death the major press is beating him almost as ruthlessly as they did in
real life. No part of the major press has acknowledged that Webb's work was
subsequently vindicated by congressional investigations and two CIA
Inspector General's reports released in 1997 and 1998. FTW did report on
Webb's vindication and his legacy has - at least at the level of authentic
journalism - not been lost.
Please see:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/RendGW.html, and
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/volii.html
For more FTW coverage of Gary Webb's life please use the search engine at
www.fromthewilderness.com.
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