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the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and other CIA/war profiteer schemes, or in the sense that RFK committed suicide by running for president in 1968 on an anti-Vietnam War platform, or in the sense that ML King committed suicide when he came out publicly against the Vietnam War in his powerful Riverside Church speech in 1967.
That is to say that Kelly did not commit suicide, but rather was murdered, and the most likely motive for it, in my opinion, is that he had a hand in foiling a Bush/Blair scheme to plant WMDS in Iraq--WMDs that were intended to be "discovered" by the US troops who were "hunting" for them after invasion (notably accompanied by Kelly friend and colleague Judith Miller)--or that he had discovered such a scheme, and, since he was already whistleblowing on the WMD issue, he posed a grave danger of exposure to the Bushites/Blairites, or, a third possibility that fits well with Kelly's psychology, he began whistleblowing on the "sexed up" prewar intel BECAUSE he had found out about the WMD planting scheme. Kelly remarked, at one point, regarding his interrogation at a "safe house," that he told them he was "not about to reveal any state secrets." It's also interesting that the Blairites' chief concern about Kelly, after that interrogation, was not what Kelly HAD SAID to the BBC (that they had slanted the intelligence toward war--something that was widely suspected anyway) but rather their main concern was what Kelly COULD SAY if they forced him to appear before a parliamentary defense committee. Kelly was interrogated in the first week of July, 2003. On July 7, Blair was informed that Kelly "COULD SAY some uncomfortable things." (Hutton report.) Note: This was one week before Valerie Plame was outed by Robert Novak, on July 14. Kelly was found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances, four days later, on July 18. And four days after that, on July 22, Novak ADDITIONALLY outed the entire Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network, putting all of its covert agents/contacts around the world in serious danger of being killed.
Something turned Kelly around about the war. He had favored toppling Saddam, then, after the invasion, suddenly began whistleblowing about the "sexed up" prewar intel, anonymously to the BBC. Why? He had been part of the team that had "sexed up" the intel, making the phony case for war, and, although he had tried, internally, to get keep the science in the intel reports more honest, there was very little reason--to appearances--for him to cry foul AFTER the fact. It was a career-ruiner. It could not undo the invasion. It could not un-bomb Baghdad. It's possible that it was merely pangs of conscience that caused him to start whistleblowing, but the way the thing unfolded (with the Blairites in a panic to identify him and out him), and, most especially its extraordinary coincidence of dates with the Plame outings (the Bushites in a similar panic), point to something more being at stake. A Bushite/Blairite scheme to plant the weapons in Iraq answers a lot of questions about BOTH the Plame and Kelly events.
There are also parallels in the utterly shabby treatment that these very ungentlemanly warmongers meted out to their government servants, Plame and her network, and Kelly. The Blairites hunted Kelly down within government, interrogated him at a "safe house," threatened him with the Official Secrets Act, forced him to partially recant what he had told the BBC, before a parliamentary committee, and then outed him to the press and sent him home without protection, and apparently without surveillance. He was found dead under a tree near his home, with one slit wrist (minor artery--note: Kelly was a BIOLOGIST!), having bled to death all night outdoors in the rain, according to officialdom. The paramedics said there was not enough blood at the scene for such a death and that the body had been moved (testimony that Hutton excluded). And where was his surveillance while this was happening? (--for, surely, he was being closely watched.) It very much looks like a set up for some shadowy black ops team to kill him.
If you back up a bit and imagine these war schemers (the Bushite NeoCons and their Blairite poodles) having set up the perfect war scam--elaborately prepared with the Niger/Iraq nuke forgeries, to be followed by the headline blaring "FIND" of WMDs in Iraq, a scheme that would "justify" the war, smother over its oil motive, cement Bush and Blair's political positions, and profoundly embarrass, if not ruin, the honest professionals at the CIA--you can then imagine their rage at being foiled, and their panic at potentially being exposed. This specific motive of a foiled scheme fits their actions far better than mere blips in a highly controlled newsstream, caused by dissenters like Wilson and Kelly. Especially in the U.S.--but also in Britain--why make such a fuss over them? Why not just IGNORE them--and/or ruin them quietly?
Anyway, that's the WMD-planting theory of Plamegate and Kellygate--a theory that holds up very well, as new information has come out. I want to emphasize that it is a theory, however. Theories can be very useful investigative tools, and I think this one is most certainly that--a useful tool. But a thorough investigation is needed.
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Note: The contact between Judith Miller (--the NYT's war propagandist) and Kelly on the day he died (7/17/03) was in the form of an email. She had emailed him congratulating him on his appearance before the parliamentary defense committee--an appearance in which he was notably under duress. She said that his "fan club" in England thought he had done well. He replied with his famous email about the "many dark actors playing games." Four days later, Miller wrote the NYT's obit news article on Kelly's death, and failed to mention this email or her close ties to Kelly (--they'd written a book together, called "Germs," about germ warfare). Kelly's family (not Miller) later released his emails of that day. His emails to others are cheerful and forward-looking. He mentions the upcoming wedding of his daughter and his plans to return to Iraq. He was hours from his death when he wrote these emails. Of the "dark actors" email, I suspect he was speaking ironically. The email is short and curt. My guess is that he may have suspected Miller of outing him to his bosses. That outing--end of June--occurs in the same timeframe as Miller's clandestine meetings with Scooter Libby, in their conspiracy to out Plame and Brewster-Jennings--meetings that occur BEFORE Joe Wilson published his article about the Niger/Iraq nuke issue. And that date is also interesting. Wilson published his article on July 6. Tony Blair got the interrogation report on Kelly on July 7. Most people assume that the Wilson publication of 7/6 triggered the Plame outings. But the interrogation report on Kelly of 7/7 could also have triggered them. 7/14, Plame outed. 7/18, Kelly found dead. 7/22, B-J outed.
Note: Plame/Wilson may be more protected than Kelly, partly because of her lifetime pledge of secrecy as a covert CIA agent. Kelly was a scientist--one of the Brits' chief WMD experts--but he was not a covert agent, as far is publicly known. He was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq and Russia, and a very tough one, from all reports. Really believed in his job of counter-proliferation. He also had authorization to speak to the press, and did so frequently. The loss of Plame's, Kelly's and the B-J networks' counter-proliferation expertise is more than likely a serious blow to national and international security. We are all in more danger because of it. And one can only guess at why warmongers like Cheney and Rumsfeld would do such a thing--but one of their motives could well be to be able to move illicit weapons around more freely, for profit, and for cooking up other wars.
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