How was Gary Webb's death ruled a suicide?

[Louis Cipher]

With two, that's 2, again TWO gun shots to the head.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Sure.

Cliff Baxter, too. Complete fabrication. They even lied about the round used to kill Baxter, in the coroner's report.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. It's easy when you are BushCO.

[BeHereNow]

3. It's called: "Through the looking glass..."

Day is night, up is down, now move along-
there's nothing to see here.

BHN

[ck4829]

4. And even IF he shot himself, I still hold the BFEE responsible

They made his life a nightmare, what is for sure is that he had trouble finding work after he exposed them, and I bet there are plenty of things we don't know about as well.

[RufusTFirefly]

9. Yup. That's the beauty of it

When a reporter runs afoul of the conventional wisdom (e.g. J.H. Hatfield, Danny Casolaro, Gary Webb), they can make his life such a living hell that killing him is sometimes unnecessary. He'll do it himself.

Read Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, a book whose title does a great job of expressing just what intrepid reporters are up against.

[RagingInMiami]

5. Don't forget

Two gunshot wounds to the back of the head.

[Garbo 2004]

13. No, they weren't. n/t

[FogerRox]

6. Double your plsearure, double your fun,

2 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots in the head.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. The Coroner ruled it as such

http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/story/11772749p-12657577c.html

[nam78_two]

8. Lots of good stuff on here tonight

:kick:

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Suicide notes?

Interesting, NOBODY close and personel to to Gary Webb was surprised by his suicide. Even Christine Craft, an early proponent of the murder conspiracy theory came to understand Webb's death was nothing but a tragedy. I listened to Gary's ex-wife (they were still very close) on the radio explain Gary's spiraling depression at great length and was convinced there was no conspiracy; there's no there there.

Now, one could make the argument that Gary was killed by the MSM years ago, and that's the real story.

[Decruiter]

11. It is Memorial Weekend, everyone, I mean everyone has taken a holiday.

Even the mods. Threads that would normally be 9/11'ed are still in GD.

Or maybe, just maybe the tide is turning. All of us "tin foilers" just might be gaining some small degree of credibility. The sky is falling, really. We mean it. Please listen.

[slowry]

12. murder is easy to get away with these days

just ask the family of gerald washington

[AuntPatsy]

14. I had a friend who committed suicide after he shot his wife and her boyfriend.

He had two gun shot wounds to the head, they explained this by stating that even though he fired one shot knowingly, the second occurred out of reflex so it is possible.

[lvx35]

15. Yeah, its someting, isn't it?

His career clearly ruined after a major story links CIA to crack cocaine, then he reports being trailed and watched while working on another piece, then gets dead. I'm sure it was justified in the assassin's mind as though he was a foreign agent, attempting to dis-empower the CIA.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

16. It just makes me sad.

I knew he had the true story when he exposed the CIA's drug-dealing and playing both sides of the fence. The San Jose Mercury News sold him out and the MSM followed suit. With the active help ot the US Gov't. He died in my hometown - the local independent weekly, Sacramento News and Review, was one of the last publications to hire him.

He was a journalist with the greatest of integrity, with the kind of courage we hope our children will have when crunch-time comes for them, in their own unique place and time.

His life should be made into an opera. I don't care if he put two bullets into the back of his own head. Gary Webb had integrity. That's what counts - that's the measure of a man.

[Morgana LaFey]

23. Very nice tribute. nt

[Garbo 2004]

17. But not two shots to the brain. The first shot wasn't fatal.

It angled downward, missed the brain and bullet exited out his face. That and his preparations, suicide note, letters he wrote to his family, etc.

[Jamastiene]

18. Instead of a magic bullet theroy, I guess it is some sort of

magic trigger theory, right? :shrug:

[Boxerfan]

19. He used a special "shotshell" type bullet-Favored by assasins. Nice Choice!

They are like a mini shotgun shell & available in most standard sizes. Scrambles things up a lot. I'm sure he was just REALLY depressed so he had the ability to snap off another round. Not buyin the "Reflex" triggering. Aint gonna happen unless your a crankster.

[BrotherBuzz]

20. Cliff Baxter, the Enron executive, was killed with the 'ratshot'

The Sacramento coroner's office reported two bullets from a Caliber .38 revolver struck Gary's face, not 'shotshells'.

[BornagainDUer]

21. Webb was the most important investigative journalist on the CIA's

involvement in illegal drug trafficking. Another writer/author, Al McKoy, stated he also was threatened while writing "The Politics of Heroin in SE Asia".

Webb was a guy who knew too much.

[devilgrrl]

22. Ohhhh, you know how it is...

:sarcasm: