Seth Rich Equals Vince
Foster?
A PizzaGate Connection?
To tell you the truth, following the story of
Seth Rich, the young staffer for the Democratic National Committee who was
murdered on July 10, 2016, on a Washington, DC, street while returning home
from a bar, I had not thought to compare the incident to the violent July 20,
1993, death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr. After all, Foster was a much more
prominent figure and the claim in his case was that he had committed
suicide. The closest parallel that
quickly came to my mind was that of Mary Caitrin ÒCaityÓ Mahoney, the young former Clinton White House intern
shot to death in 1997 along with two other employees of a Starbucks in
Georgetown. That incident was also
called a Òbotched robberyÓ because no money or valuables were taken.
Then out comes The Washington Post on May 17 with a long article entitled ÒIn rumors around a DNC
stafferÕs death, a whiff of a Clinton-era conspiracy theory.Ó * The ÒtheoryÓ to which they refer is that Foster did not
kill himself with a .38 caliber revolver pressed into his mouth that produced
no exit wound that any witnesses saw nor any blood and gore behind his head. Rather, irresponsible ÒrumormongersÓ
actually claimed that Foster, whose time and manner of disappearance from the
White House compound was never checked using surveillance camera records and
who, according to the best witnesses, somehow arrived at Fort Marcy Park in
Virginia without driving his own car there, was murdered. As I read The Post article, though, I do see one very strong point of
similarity in the two cases. It is
in the very energetic selling job being done by the mainstream media, and
especially The Washington Post, for
the botched-robbery story, similar to the equally unlikely suicide-from-depression
story that they peddled with the Foster death. So obvious and over-the-top have they
been, in fact, that if I had not been suspicious of RichÕs death in the first
place, I certainly would be after seeing the way The Post compares it to the Foster case.
Check out this opening paragraph:
Depressed
and losing sleep after a few months in the White House, Vince Foster became
convinced that the turmoil surrounding his work for President Clinton would
never stop. HeÕd already been the subject of a scathing newspaper editorial
that had raised questions about his long association with Bill and Hillary
Clinton, and his name kept appearing in White House controversies.
Lying for the Cover-up
How about that for a sales job, and for mind
reading? YouÕd never guess from this
opening sally that initially FosterÕs family, friends, and colleagues at the
White House were unanimously clueless as to any reason he might have had for
taking his own life. Here is how
Hugh Turley describes those early days in ÒVince FosterÕs Indignant
but Curiously Unconcerned SisterÓ:
On the night of Vince
Foster's death, July 20, 1993, the Park Police went to the Foster home to
notify the family and interview them as part of their investigation. The police arrived at the home at the
same time as Foster's sister Sheila Anthony.
Park Police Investigator
John Rolla testified to the Senate Banking
Committee, ÒSheila Anthony was talking with us, I spoke to her, [Investigator]
Cheryl [Braun] spoke with her, she was very cordial. I remember asking her, did you see any
of this coming, and she stated no.
Nobody would say anything about depression or that they noticed some
signs, they were worried.Ó
Foster's widow Lisa was
also interviewed by Investigator Rolla. His FBI
interview report
states, Ò[Rolla] does recall
eventually conversing with Mrs. Foster specifically asking her if she had any
indication that anything was wrong with her husband, with Mrs. Foster
responding in the negative.Ó
Four days later on July
24, the family, through Sheila's husband Beryl, was still denying Foster was
depressed. The Washington Times reported, Ò'Close
friends told [Foster] to cool things and relax and not take things so
personal,' the [anonymous] source said, citing Mr. Foster's ex-brother-in-law,
former Rep. Beryl Anthony, as one who had talked to Mr. Foster about his
depression...'There's not a damn thing to it. That's a bunch of crap,' Mr. Anthony
said yesterday, slamming down the telephone at his El Dorado, Ark. home.Ó
The Washington Post concealed that the family told the police
Foster was not depressed by falsely reporting, ÒPolice who arrived at
Foster's house the night of the death were turned away after being told Lisa
Foster and family members were too distraught to talk. Investigators were not allowed to
interview her until [July 29.]Ó
Walter Pincus, a Washington Post reporter, was at the small Georgetown townhouse
when the police investigators interviewed the family for over an hour and were
told Foster was not depressed.
Did you catch that, readers? The
Washington Post, in obvious furtherance of the cover-up of FosterÕs murder,
flat-out, knowingly lied, saying that the police were turned away from the
Foster house. Turley has a link to
a copy of the original print version of the story; I have since located it online. Here it is with an intriguing follow-up
sentence:
Police
who arrived at Foster's house the night of the death were turned away after
being told Lisa Foster and family members were too distraught to talk.
Investigators were not allowed to interview her until yesterday. "That was
a matter between her lawyers and the police," [White House counselor
David] Gergen said, and the White House "had no
role in it."
In ÒThe
Reign of the Lie,Ó which is part 6 of my ÒAmericaÕs
Dreyfus Affair: The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster,Ó I reveal how my
skepticism of that story yielded additional fruit:
[Park
Police] spokesman, Major Robert Hines, even embellished the lie a bit for me.
Explaining my interest from having gone to college with Vince, I called him and
asked how it would have been possible for a private lawyer to stand in the way
of police carrying out an investigation. He told me that I was right, that he
couldnÕt, but that the newspaper had misreported the facts. He said that the
police had left the residence upon determining that the widow, Lisa, was too
broken up to talk to and that they had returned the next day for an interview.
That version of events, like the one told by The Post, was also made
Òinoperative,Ó to borrow a Watergate-era term, a year later by the released
police report and the Senate testimony of Park Police investigators Rolla and
Braun about their visit to the Foster home.
So The Post and the Park Police spokesman,
it turned out, were lying about that first night at the Foster house. They were stalling for time, it is
clear, to get all their suicide-from-depression ducks in a row. Even four days later, as Turley reports,
sister SheilaÕs husband wasnÕt yet on board with the depression concoction,
saying that it was Òa bunch of crap.Ó
The very same edition of The
Washington Times that has the Anthony quote, also had an article about
depression that contained the following quote about Foster from White House
spokesperson Dee Dee Myers:
"His family says with certainty
that he'd never been treated (for depression)," as I report in part 1 of ÒAmericaÕs
Dreyfus Affair.Ó
I
donÕt know about you, but when I discover that someone has lied to me, I tend
to lose confidence in anything that they might say. Known liars also make very poor
witnesses in a court of law.
The Post and its brothers
in propaganda also consistently do violence to the truth in a host of slightly subtler
ways. A
collection of them are enumerated in my ÒSeventeen
Techniques for Truth Suppression.Ó ÒBoldly and brazenly lieÓ doesnÕt
come up until #15. In the very title of the Post article, written by Avi Selk, a man who would have
been around six years old when Foster died, we see the use of technique number
three, ÒCharacterize the charges as rumors.Ó
One
can be caught out in a lie, so the deceivers in the press would rather not
resort to that crude method of deceit.
Of course, to suggest that the only thing that critics have against the press-peddled
story, official or otherwise, is based upon nothing more substantial than some
vague ÒrumorsÓ amounts to a lie in itself, but it leaves some room for
quibbling, which a bald-faced lie does not. One can read everything
that I have written challenging the absurd
suicide-from-depression story and nowhere will he find me passing on anything
as unsubstantial as a rumor. The
case for the murder of Vince Foster, I can assure you, rests upon very solid
evidence.
FosterÕs Closest
Friends Puzzled by ÒSuicideÓ
Now
letÕs pick up young SelkÕs narrative in The Post:
ÒIn Washington you are assumed to have done
something wrong even if you have not,Ó he told a friend in 1993, a few weeks
before the deputy counsel left his office midday, went to
a park and shot himself.
ÒHe thought
the matter would never end,Ó the friend later explained to federal
investigators looking in to FosterÕs death.
And it never
did.
To find
out who that ÒfriendÓ was you have to click on the link, which leads you to a
heavy-duty propaganda article by The PostÕs
David Von Drehle and Howard Schneider eagerly and
uncritically accepting the poorly substantiated suicide conclusions of special
prosecutor Robert Fiske in 1994. It
turns out that the friend was assistant attorney general Webster Hubbell, who
was also FosterÕs partner along with Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in
Little Rock.
This
is hardly a disinterested witness whose word one should take implicitly,
especially when he gives it after enough time has passed for him to know what
the official story has come to be. What
Selk does not tell you is what we learned from
FosterÕs mentor at the Rose Law Firm associate, Phillip Carroll, as reported by
Esquire magazine in November 1993:
ÒWebb called me at midnight the night it happened. He said, ÔDonÕt believe a word you
hear. It was not suicide. It couldnÕt have been.Ó
Hillary
Clinton echoed Hubbell when she said, ÒOf a
thousand people who might commit suicide, I would never pick Vince.Ó When she got the news of FosterÕs death
she was in Little Rock meeting with friend James ÒSkipÓ Rutherford. This is from the FBI interview of
Rutherford:
RUTHERFORD
had lunch at HILLARY CLINTONÕs motherÕs residence. HILLARY CLINTON was in complete
disbelief and shock at the thought of FOSTER committing suicide. HILLARY CLINTON told RUTHERFORD that she
could think of no indication or reason for the suicide. HILLARY CLINTON and RUTHERFORD were
trying to determine a motive for FOSTERÕs suicide.
Here
we resume the Selk narrative exactly where we left
off:
Not after
the investigation concluded beyond any doubt that Foster killed himself
[sic. ItÕs SelkÕs incomplete sentence.]. Not
decades later — after multiple inquiries by police, FBI
agents, Republicans, Democrats and two special prosecutors had
all debunked the still-persistent falsehood that the Clintons
had Foster killed to protect themselves from what he knew.
Now
just think about it. These strong
words of assurance that everything was on the up-and-up in the Foster case come
from a news organ that went so far as to lie in service of the
suicide-from-depression story. Consider
as well that The Post accepted the Park
PoliceÕs suicide conclusion announced on
August 10, 1993, even when the cops withheld all the evidence that they had
collected that might have supported their conclusions. The only reporter who objected when
Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern said they would have to file a Freedom
of Information Act request to get it was Sarah McClendon of the independent
McClendon News Service. In fact,
the mainstream press did not even report that no supporting documentation would
be forthcoming. As late in the game
as August 1, after the depression narrative had started to crystalize, Von Drehle, the lead writer of that Fiske-Report endorsement
mentioned above, told us that the Edwin Arlington Robinson poem, Richard
Cory, about a man who committed suicide
for no apparent reason, was a sufficient explanation for him for how Foster died,
strongly suggesting that it should be sufficient explanation for the public as
well.
How Dare You?
Reflecting
upon this truly sorry performance by our Fourth Estate, I began ÒThe
Press and the Death of Vincent FosterÓ this
way:
The most basic charge to be made against the
American press in the coverage of the death of Vincent Foster is that it has
not behaved as we should expect a free and independent
and minimally competent press to behave. It has not demonstrated the curiosity or
the natural suspicion of even the average man on the street nor has it shown
any resourcefulness at all in putting known facts together and making plausible
inferences. Lacking the time or the means to gather the information for himself, the citizen is dependent upon the press to gather
the information for him. This the press has simply not done. It has done
virtually no independent investigation such as interviewing witnesses nor has
it shown a fraction of the diligence of some few private citizens who have
taken the time to look into the official record and report upon what they find.
At best it has merely been a conduit for the executive branch's official
announcements and conclusions; at worst it as been a
cheerleader for and an embellisher of those conclusions.
When the information imparted by the executive
branch has had inconsistencies and anomalies, it has made no effort to resolve
them, or even to point them out. When witnesses have testified before Congress
it has virtually ignored the proceedings, and it even has failed to do
substantive reporting on such events as the press conference by the Justice
Department, the FBI, and the United States Park Police on August 10, 1993, when
the first official conclusion of suicide was announced or of the inclusion of
the dissident witness's submission with the report of the Independent Counsel
on Vincent Foster's death. In a word, America's press has not acted in this
matter as though it felt any obligation at all to be of service to the public.
Rather, it has acted little differently, on its face, from what one would
expect if it were the official public relations department of the executive
wing of the federal government.
Calling
skeptics ÒrumormongersÓ is hardly the only truth suppression technique that The Post has recycled in the Seth Rich
case. Check out this passage from
the Selk article:
As with
Foster, local authorities have tried to dispel rumors that
politics played a role in RichÕs death. In this case, D.C. police believe he
died in a random robbery attempt.
Relatives have
also begged rumormongers to lay off. On Tuesday, a family spokesman
decried a
Fox News report suggesting Rich was involved in leaking Democratic Party
documents before his death.
But FosterÕs
family had tried that, too — both men became conspiracy victims anyway. The Fox News story continues to collect
comments like ÒSeth Rich has joined Vince Foster in the pile of bodies that
follow Hillary Clinton around.Ó
This
is #2 in the techniques, ÒWax indignant. This is also known as the ÔHow dare you?Õ gambit.Ó The indignation is expressed in
this instance, as in the Foster case, by invoking the family of the
victim. At this point we should
note that when the family of a victim joins the Òconspiracy theoristsÓ in
challenging the official story, as in the cases of, say, Martin Luther King, Jr., Kenneth Trentadue, or Tommy Burkett, The
Post falls back on #1 and dummies up, as though the victim had no family
with a strong opinion.
Clicking
on that Òfamily spokesmanÓ link in SelkÕs article leads
eventually to another strong parallel to Foster. It takes some reading, but eventually we
get down to the name of the spokesman, one Brad Bauman. What The
Post does not tell us is that Bauman is a regular Democratic Party
publicist. That is to say, he is a flack for a prime
suspect in the hit. Bauman may be
compared with the ÒFoster family lawyer,Ó James Hamilton. Take a look at this excerpt from my letter to Robert Anderson, the producer of the
infamous 60 Minutes episode on Foster featuring reporter Christopher Ruddy, in
which I take Anderson to task for using Hamilton as his authority on FosterÕs
presumed ÒdepressionÓ:
Unmentioned is the fact that Hamilton was also
an important member of the Clinton political transition team and the author of
a memo to Clinton counseling stonewalling in the Whitewater case. His word,
which is not only tainted, but is in this case obvious nonsense if you just
think about it a little, is simply taken as final.
The criminal lawyer
Hamilton is also cited by Mike Wallace as his authority that Foster was
depressed, but when interviewed on screen Hamilton hardly corroborates the
characterization, saying only that he "had been told" that Foster had
been experiencing bouts of anxiety, or something to that effect. Was there no
doctor in the house? Were you unable to interview Dr. Larry Watkins of Little
Rock, Arkansas, the man who Fiske tells us prescribed an anti-depressant to
Foster after talking to him on the phone, or are you as lacking in confidence
in him as you are [autopsy doctor] Dr. [James] Beyer?
In
that episode, by the way, Wallace showed that The Washington Post has nothing on CBS when it comes to #15 in the
techniques, boldly and brazenly lying.
At one point, he looked squarely
into the camera and in his authoritative baritone stated, ÒThe forensic evidence shows that the fatal bullet had been
fired into FosterÕs mouth from the gun found in FosterÕs hand and that FosterÕs
thumb had pulled the trigger.Ó
He had to have known that there is
not a word of truth in that statement.
There was no way to match the bullet with the gun when the bullet was
never recovered. Furthermore,
FosterÕs fingerprints were not on the gun and the body scene, as described by
numerous witnesses, was inconsistent with the scenario that Wallace paints.
Turning to the Post article to which Selk links, we find Bauman playing the Òhow dare youÓ card
with even greater vigor than we have seen in the Foster
case, ÒThis is devastating to the family,Ó
Bauman said. ÒThey have confidence in the police investigation and believe that
every single one of these fake news stories actually harms the ability of the
police department to get to the bottom of what actually happened.Ó
Before they get too confident in the
DC police, perhaps the Rich family should get in touch with the family of Chandra
Levy.
Who Did it and Why?
Later in his piece Selk, at the same time, employs #12 in the techniques, ÒRequire the skeptics to solve the crime completely,Ó and
inadvertently points out a major difference between the Foster and Rich cases:
But
why even have Foster killed? He was just a deputy
counsel — and the early Clinton scandals for which heÕd blamed
himself did not amount to much.
For this
problem, the theorists had baseless rumors that Foster and Hillary
Clinton, his former partner at an Arkansas law firm, had been having an
affair. Or alternatively, that the ClintonsÕ longtime friend was
simply privy to too many of their secrets.
It is certainly not necessary to
know who killed Foster and why to see from the evidence that he was
murdered. What the motive might
have been for FosterÕs killing has been a puzzle from the beginning. One probably needs greater insight into
the sordid affairs of the Deep State than we currently have to get completely to
the bottom of it. Lacking the law
enforcement powers that the state has, and chooses not to use, regular citizens
can hardly be expected to do it. I
cover various conjectures and take a stab at the latest possibility with my
December 2016 article, ÒWas Vince FosterÕs Murder PizzaGate
Related?Ó
In RichÕs case, by contrast, you can
start with the motive, which almost screams out at you. He is strongly suspected of being the
source of the leaks of the DNC emails to Wikileaks
that supposedly did so much damage to the Hillary Clinton campaign. Wikileaks has
even published an email from
campaign manager John Podesta that says, ÒIÕm
definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have
any real basis for it.Ó That might explain
why nothing was taken from Rich in the Òbotched robbery.Ó If you make the murder look too much
like it was simply the byproduct of a garden-variety street crime, the intended
message would not be sent. That might
explain as well why no money was taken from the Starbucks cash registers in the
Caity Mahoney killing.
Oh, but wait a minute! Those leaked
emails from John Podesta are what started all the
suspicions about a high-level pedophilia ring, PizzaGate
for short. We reveal in our article
speculating on the motive for FosterÕs murder that for some reason the FBIÕs Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit was involved in the Foster death investigation. Now thatÕs something that could get a
person killed. Perhaps there is a
real connection between the two deaths, not just the phony or superficial ones
that The Post would point to in order
to mislead us.
In Part 1 of ÒAmericaÕs
Dreyfus Affair,Ó in the section called ÒThe Search
for a General Mercier,Ó I speculate that the whole purpose of the appointment
of a special prosecutor was to get a central authority figure, like General Auguste Mercier in FranceÕs railroading of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus for spying, to put his seal of approval on the cover-up. My big cause for suspicion is that the
ostensible precipitator of the appointment of Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske
was an article in The Washington Times. That article, by Jerry Seper in December of 1993, cited anonymous Park Police
sources reporting that Whitewater Development Corporation documents were
removed by White House officials from his office on the night of FosterÕs
death. The link between the two
scandals provided the excuse for a special prosecutor to investigate all of
them. Since at the time of FosterÕs
death the Whitewater mess was still far below the public radar, I surmised that
it would have been highly unlikely that any Park Police investigator would have
any idea what a Whitewater document was.
Dan E. Moldea later confirmed that suspicion
in his book A Washington Tragedy, How the
Death of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm. He interviewed all the Park Police
investigators, and they told him that they could not have been the source for SeperÕs article precisely because they knew nothing about
Whitewater.
As we have seen, Robert Fiske with
his weak little ÒinvestigationÓ was a good enough authority figure for The Post, but Attorney General Janet
Reno had appointed him. When the
Congress renewed the Ethics in Government Act, a three-judge panel appointed by
Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed, in turn, Judge Kenneth Starr to take
over FiskeÕs investigative responsibilities. He became the key authority figure for
the prevailing molders of public opinion to rally around. The following five short paragraphs
encapsulate The PostÕs latest
rallying, as manifested in the Selk article:
In 1997,
independent counsel Ken Starr concluded the last of them — after
probes by the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Government
Operations, a Senate committee and previous independent counsel all backed up
the police conclusions.
Starr was no
Clinton ally. He would go on to expose the presidentÕs affair with Monica
Lewinsky and to this day accuses the administration of many misdeeds.
But after a three-year
forensic investigation that looked into nearly every conspiracy theory around
Foster, Starr concluded the man simply killed himself.
No matter.
Weeks after the report came out, a book called ÒThe Strange Death of
Vincent FosterÓ hit the shelves and rekindled every theory.
Written by a
reporter who is now CEO of Newsmax, the book poked new holes in the police investigations,
compiling examples of sloppiness and the accounts of a
dissenting investigator to suggest Òsomething dastardly happened,Ó as a
New York Times book review put it.
Let us address each paragraph in
turn.
The ranking Republican on the House
committee that Selk speaks of was William
Clinger. What Selk
calls a ÒprobeÓ was simply ClingerÕs eight-page
endorsement of FiskeÕs conclusions. ** The
Senate committee mentioned was not commissioned to determine the cause of
FosterÕs death. Its stated purpose
was only to look into the behavior of White House officials in the wake of the
death, particularly the handling of those documents in FosterÕs office.
Kenneth Starr had been solicitor
general in the justice department of President George H. W. Bush. In its policies, the Bill Clinton
administration might as well have been a continuation of the Bush administration. In recent years, the two former
presidents have shown themselves to be very close. The Monica Lewinsky episode was a prime
example of #13 in the techniques of truth suppression, Starr drew attention
away from the Foster investigation while he dragged his feet and at the same
time created the impression that he was really out to get the Clintons, when,
in fact, they were all on the same team.
President George W. Bush rewarded two of StarrÕs assistants, Brett Kavanaugh and John Bates, by making them federal
judges. Most recently, Starr was
forced to resign in disgrace as president of Baylor University for the role he
played in covering up a major sex scandal there involving the football team.
What Selk
calls a Òthree-year forensic investigationÓ might better be called the result
of three years of delay. One might
well ask what took so long. The
really important thing in that sentence is the link to The PostÕs reproduction of StarrÕs report. Please notice this sentence in bold
letters in the introduction: ÒThis file does not contain the
report's footnotes or appendix.Ó For a number of years that statement was not there
and The Post, with its usual level of
dishonesty when it comes to the Foster case, left the impression that what you
were reading was the entire report.
Why leave off the footnotes and appendix, one might ask. The footnotes often lead to reports by
hired ÒexpertsÓ that are not available to the public. The appendix contains the letter of John
Clarke, the lawyer for Patrick Knowlton, the dissident witness in the case. That letter was ordered to be included with
StarrÕs report over StarrÕs strenuous written objections, because, as Judge
John D. Butzner put it, ÒI suspect that if we deny
[KnowltonÕs] motion we will be charged as conspirators in the cover-up.Ó The 20-page letter completely destroys
StarrÕs conclusion of suicide. The
car that Knowlton saw in the parking lot at Fort Marcy Park when Foster lay
dead at the back of the park was not FosterÕs, even though the FBI changed
KnowltonÕs testimony to say that it was.
To this day neither The Post nor
anyone anywhere in the supposedly free American press has told us even about
the existence of that Clarke letter, much less what is in it. In part 3 of ÒAmericaÕs Dreyfus Affair,Ó I called it ÒThe Great
Suppression of Õ97.Ó Sadly, that
bit of news suppression, a shining example of #1 in the truth suppression techniques, continues. (For
the record, both Knowlton and I, as lifelong Democrats, voted for Bill Clinton
for president in 1992. We are not
right-wing zealots.)
Then Selk tells us about Christopher RuddyÕs
book, The Strange Death of Vincent
Foster, that he says was published in the wake of the Starr Report. Actually, the book came out on October 1
and the Report was published on October 10, 1997. That was part of the master cover-up
plan, as we can now see clearly in retrospect. The Free Press, a division of
Simon and Schuster, published RuddyÕs book and The New York Times gave it publicity by
reviewing it. Simon and Schuster
had also published the heavily publicized cover-up book, Blood Sport, by James
Stewart. The use of Ruddy, writing first for Rupert MurdochÕs New York Post and then for Richard
Mellon ScaifeÕs minor newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is a shining
example of #16 of the techniques, ÒHave your own stooges ÔexposeÕ scandals and
champion popular causes.Ó As
I show in ÒDouble Agent Ruddy Reaching for
Media Pinnacle,Ó one can
hardly find a better example of a Deep State stooge than Christopher Ruddy.
Curiously,
Selk does not see fit to give us RuddyÕs
name. Rather, he detours us through
a 2015 Washington Post article entitled
ÒConservative Christopher Ruddy is now in full-throated defense of Hillary?Ó
that is behind the link for Ònow CEO of Newsmax.Ó At this point The Post is being too cute by half, because they give away the game
that Ruddy was really nothing but a false critic and fraud all along, something
that serious students of the Foster case had known for quite a long time.
Another
name that Selk conspicuously does not give us is that
of StarrÕs Òdissenting investigatorÓ described in RuddyÕs
book. For that, we have to go to
the link for the New York Times review
of RuddyÕs book to discover that his name is Miguel
Rodriguez. ItÕs interesting that
the Times should spell the first name
correctly, because Rodriquez was hardly a public figure and Ruddy spells his
name ÒMiquelÓ in his book. Ruddy also made it a point to tell me,
and others interested in the case, that that was how it was spelled. ThatÕs why you will see it that way in my
ÒAmericaÕs Dreyfus Affair,Ó Ambrose Evans-PritchardÕs The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, and in the work of other Foster
case investigators like lawyer Allan Favish and the late Accuracy in Media
head Reed Irvine. I only learned the
correct spelling when we found RodriguezÕs resignation letter in the national archives and published it in
2009. Following the Òdummy upÓ
technique #1, no one in the press—certainly not The Washington Post—has made any mention of that resignation
letter. Neither has anyone in the
mainstream media touched the dissenting memorandum that Rodriguez wrote for the
record and we published in 2013 or the recorded telephone recordings between Rodriguez and Irvine in
which Rodriquez spoke, among a lot of other revealing things, of the numerous
conversations he had had with reporters in a futile effort to get the truth
out. Finally, before we leave the
subject of that New York Times review
of RuddyÕs book, which I discovered for the first
time from reading the Selk article, I must say, in
all modesty, that one would be much better served by reading my review. I also
sent it to Amazon.com, and it used to be touted there, based upon other
readersÕ approval, as the leading critical review of the book. Now, though, Amazon has made it almost
impossible to find, although it is still
there. Someone must have given
Amazon owner and now Washington Post owner
Jeff Bezos a heads-up.
So The Post and others in the mainstream media have done us a big
favor—albeit inadvertently—by drawing parallels between the
shooting deaths of Seth Rich and Vince Foster. If folks werenÕt suspicious before, they
surely should be now.
* On May
22, The Post changed the title to ÒIn
the debunked story on a DNC stafferÕs death, a whiff of a Clinton-era
conspiracy theory.Ó I am unaware of
any actual debunking that has been done.
The Post, it would appear, has
decided in this instance to trade in #3 for #15 in the ÒSeventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression.Ó
** The Clinger Report, including the one-page cover, is on the FBIcover-up.com web site as exhibit #168 on pp.
593-601 of the 630 pages of official government document exhibits that support
the court document and book, Failure of
the Public Trust. A link to the exhibits is found at the bottom of
the homepage.
David Martin
May 25, 2017
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