Was there a pillow over his face?
A professional “hit’ would leave no traces like a pillow over his face.
They would if they were trying to send a message
That is true! However, here is another possible theory. Suppose he was poisoned. (he has already been embalmned so we'll never know). He is dying, knowing that he has probably been poisoned. With his last effort, he places the pillow over his head to signal that a murder had occurred. He knows it could easily be determined that he wasn't asphyxiated, yet what other way to send a message beyond the grave? The older we get, the more cynical in my experience. :{)
That’s what drudge had. Then again I can see oblah blah boys screwing this one up.
Shannon Bream on FOX last night attempted to clean up the story line. There was no pillow covering his face. The pillow was over (ABOVE) his head between his head and the headboard. This is not to say he might have been smothered. It is to say a pillow was not found to be shoved down his throat or up his nostrils. Only that it was ABOVE the top of his head.
Carry on. The Pelican Brief was the first thought here as well. All so convenient. And considering the adversaries, all so predictable.
Was this a message?
“A professional “hit’ would leave no traces like a pillow over his face.”
It was left there as a warning to “ others “ that the same thing might happen to them .
Unless the killer wanted to send a not-so-subtle message.
Some people are so morbidly afraid of being viewed as conspiracists, with all the ridicule that goes with that, they accept ANY improbable event and attribute it to coincidence. E.g., Hillary's winning six consecutive coin tosses.
These things don't happen in a vacuum. If there had never been a political assassination, if there'd never been anything questionable about Obama's dealings or Clinton's, Scalia's death would be an isolated event.
BUT to attribute long chains of improbability to "coincidence" is foolish.