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breadandwine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:39 PM
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CIA Watchdog Reporter "Suicided"!
Gary Webb, who had reported for the San Jose Mercury News on the CIA's drug connections, has been found dead at age 49 of an apparently "self-inflicted gunshot wound."

http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/issues/Issue.12-16-2004/news/Article.news_briefs

He was 49 years old and seemed to have been doing extremely well in his current new reporting job.

Note that this comes right after the election so as not to create any issue during the election.
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:43 PM
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1. shot himself twice in the head?
twice?

how is that possible?
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:45 PM
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2. Yeah and with a shotgun.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:24 PM
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9. Who do you think is going to be the first political commentator
to bring this up?
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Shadowen Donating Member (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:45 PM
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4. Burst-fire?
Edited on Thu Dec-16-04 10:46 PM by Shadowen
EDIT: Never mind, upon consideration of the post above me.
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firebee Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:47 PM
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6. LALALALA!!!
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Everybody continue to stick your heads in a hole and please make sure your pants are down.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:35 PM
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10. Porter Goss is how.
The Operation 40 veteran has left a trail of bodies wherever he's "worked."

Secrets of Porter Goss: CIA, Fraud & Patriot Act

by AL MARTIN (ALMARTINRAW.COM)

There are sinister implications in the fact that various provisions of the so-called Patriot II Act are being surreptitiously slipped into other legislation. Attorney General John Ashcroft has admitted as much, saying that it will be used to expand law enforcement powers “upon the passage of all provisions of Patriot II.” This would lead one to believe that they’re going to try to break it up and slip it in. Otherwise he would have said, “upon the passage of the act,” not “all provisions.” That gives you some clue as to what the Bushonian strategy is with the bill.

Ashcroft then went on to say that he would sign a so-called ‘Blanket Letter of National Security Findings,’ which would make the issuance of secret arrest warrants possible and eliminate the need for law enforcement to request individual letters from the Department of Justice or relevant agencies regarding actions against groups or individuals. There are currently six bills pending in Congress that would take provisions from Patriot Act II -- HR-3179, the Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003; HR-3037, Anti-Terrorism Tools Enhancement Act of 2003; HR2934 and S1604, Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2003; HR3040 and S1606, Pre-trial Detention and Lifetime Supervision of Terrorists Act of 2003.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=1476&page=1

The most sinister of these is HR3179, sponsored by Representative James Sensenbrenner and co-sponsored by the infamous/ sinister Porter Goss.

And who is Porter Goss? Porter Goss, (R-FL) is
surprise! a former CIA agent who left the CIA under
clouded circumstances. He was a field agent but was
actually forced out because of a trail of bodies that
got tagged to him, literally, all over the world. And
here is, as they say, the rest of the story...

Porter Goss had been involved in the last-ditch
efforts by the CIA to save the CIA-backed and
-financed regime of Nicaraguan, tin-horn, right-wing
dictator Anastasio Somoza, before Somoza’s fall in
1979. After that the Sandinistas were voted into
power.

CONTINUED ...

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=1476&page=2
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:45 PM
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3. What? No dioxin in his soup? Our CIA is just so messy and...
...out-of-date.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:48 PM
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7. And it just happened after a new CIA director was installed
Coincidence?
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:46 PM
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5. This is discussed elsewhere
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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 10:49 PM
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8. It wasn't a suicide it was a murder, how do you shoot yourself in the
head two time's. Like I said a couple of days ago there are too many people dieing of suicide who investigated the government. Web was outspoken and a great investigator. I don't believe he committed suicide, no way!
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 11:44 PM
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11. SuiCIAde
And the fact that the MSM will not touch this story is sad proof of murder that you can take to the bank of truth.Is there a journalist left that could fill Garry Webbs shoes?
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breadandwine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 01:22 AM
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12. For me this is a potential turning point.
The media includes people who are part of the system, but also sincere people who are being railroaded by the system or are under "lockdown" and not allowed to report what they want to. But the latter can still make their voices heard in alternative ways if they really want to. They don't because they are scared or cowards. But now that Gary Webb has been assassinated (let's not even call it just a murder — it was an ASSASSINATION) the whole suppression of the truth is no longer "somebody else's problem." Now everyone in the media who has a shred of integrity left has to be told up front: If you can't save the democracy, at least save yourselves. Woe and shame to you if you let one of your own be assassinated and yet you do nothing and say nothing.....

From now on we should be constantly shouting about the ASSASSINATION of Gary Webb all the time. It is the ultimate shame and embarrassment to the news media if they can't even object to the killing of one of their own. It's scandalous.

If any news organization or individual wants to insist they are doing a fine job, just remind them of their SILENCE on the Gary Webb ASSASSINATION. It's the ultimate one-stop-shopping instant proof of their corruption, decadence and failure to tell the truth.
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