Mark Middleton,
Meet Daniel Best
I posted the first version of what would
expand into the Seventeen
Techniques for Truth Suppression on March 7, 1998. There were 13 originally, expanding in stages
to 17 by the end of 1999, where it has stayed.
No changes were made in the original entries.
The choice of “Dummy up” for the first
technique is looking better with every year that passes, despite what would
appear to be much greater difficulty than before in keeping a lid on important
information, what with the numerous ways that one can be informed these
days. It’s beginning to look as though, similar to George Orwell’s 1984, what I wrote as a description
is being taken more and more as a prescription.
Take my two title characters, for
instance. I must admit that until just a
few days ago I had never heard of the first one until one of my numerous email
correspondents—an exceptionally tuned-in group—asked me what I knew about his
odd death. He asked me if I thought it
might be “just another Vince Foster.”
But even he called the guy “Mike” Middleton. With a quick Internet search, I was able to
get the name right and to learn what little that has been released about the
man’s very odd demise at the age of 59.
There’s already a good summary of it on the Clinton Body Count Wikipedia page, and I must
say it reads like something the satirists at the Babylon Bee might dream up:
Mark Middleton, an Arkansas business
leader, mutual friend of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein, and former finance
director for Clinton's presidential campaign and later
special assistant to Clinton, was found dead hanging from a tree thirty miles
from his home with a shotgun wound in his chest, May 7, 2022. Middleton's
family filed an injunction to prevent police photos of the scene from being
released to the public, citing concerns that the images could encourage
conspiracy theories.
Ya think?
But could the images make all that big a difference? Well, maybe so if, as we have learned from
official sources even without the images, there was hardly any blood and gore
at the scene of the body discovery. As
with Foster, they’re saying it was just another one of those damned
suicides...or should we say Arkancides? (If you check
that link, you’ll find from its second sentence that Conservapedia
has a much more comprehensive Clinton Body Count list than does
Wikipedia, but as of this writing, it does not yet include Mark Middleton.)
Actually, maybe we should not say Arkancides, because the term is too restrictive. That brings us to our second title character,
Daniel Best. Conservapedia
does not have a page for the man.
Wikipedia does have a page, but it’s for another Daniel Best, an
interesting fellow who was born in 1838 and died in 1923. The definitive article, I believe, up to now
on the death of the drug-price czar of the Trump administration, which they
called a suicide, is mine posted on November 28, 2018, entitled “Daniel Best: Trump’s Vince Foster?” Further elaboration can be found in the
final chapter of The Murder of
Vince Foster: America’s Would-Be Dreyfus Affair.
What these two violent death cases have
most in common is an almost complete news blackout. As with Middleton, I only learned of Best’s
death belatedly through an email correspondent.
The blackout also tells us with virtual certainty that the official
suicide story is untrue. Why else would
such obviously important news be suppressed?
And the news suppressers seem to have learned a lesson with the Daniel Best
case. You’ll see from my article that I
got some of the best incriminating information from the all-purpose “debunker”
site of Snopes.com. Their feckless
attempt at debunkery proved to be quite
valuable. As of this writing, the name
“Mark Middleton” is not to be found there, although a lot of people have been
searching for his name there. You know that
to be the case, because when you start typing his name into their search
box, the Snopes computer knows right off the bat who you’re looking for and quickly
fills in the rest of the name.
As evidence of the general news blackout
in the Middleton case, you can do what I describe in my Daniel Best article. Type in his name followed by your major news
organ of choice. Starting with NPR, I
drew a blank until I got to Fox News, and that didn’t turn up much. What
I got there was a sketchy piece from Fox Metro
News, which seems to be something different from Fox News, and it cites as its
source the even more obscure Radaronline.com.
The closest that I could find to any
regular news coverage of Middleton’s highly suspicious and bizarre death was in
two British tabloids, the Daily Mail and the Sun.
The mobilization of Middleton’s family
behind the very hard to believe suicide story echoes the Vince Foster
case. In that instance, it was just one
family member, Vince’s older sister, Sheila Anthony. Hugh Turley and I, with complementary
articles, have demonstrated what a poor case she makes. My article, “Sheila Anthony Defends Her Changed Foster
Story,”
came first. Turley followed four months
later with “Vince Foster’s
Indignant but Curiously Unconcerned Sister.”
In my “Seth Rich Equals
Vince Foster?”
we see that the same cover-up method was used in the Rich case, except that the
family expressed its indignation through a man who is a paid publicist for the
Democratic Party, that is to say, “a flack for the
prime suspects in the hit.” As we point
out in that article, when the family doesn’t go along with the official verdict
and protests it, as with the profession of the innocence of James Earl Ray by
the Martin Luther King, Jr., family, the press falls back on #1 in the truth
suppression techniques and simply fails to report it.
My search of Middleton’s name online did
happen to bear some additional interesting fruit. Republican Representative Dan Burton of
Indiana had risen to the chairmanship of the Committee on Government Reform in
1999, during Bill Clinton’s second term, and he convened a hearing with this
very intriguing title: “White
House Insider Mark Middleton: His Ties to John Huang, Charlie Trie, and Other Campaign Finance Figures.” Not that it would have had anything to do with
Middleton’s likely murder after all these years, but it would appear that when
it comes to dirty money from China, Middleton played the sort of role for
Clinton that Hunter Biden has played for his dad.
As a final note, when it comes to investigating
sleazy activity connected to Clinton, Rep. Burton showed a lot more courage there
than he did in the Vince Foster death case.
Check out this recorded telephone conversation between him and
Accuracy in Media’s Reed Irvine. You can
learn about reporter Christopher Ruddy’s kid-glove treatment
of Burton in Chapter 2 of The Murder of
Vince Foster
and more about Burton’s intentional fecklessness in the case in Chapter 5.
David Martin
June 23, 2022
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