GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide

The Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/13/2017 | Katherine Skiba, David Heinzmann and Todd Lighty

[Malcolm Reynolds]

As Norm McDonald once said about the Heaven's Gate Cult and Hillary Clinton.......

In a radio interview this week, First Lady Hillary Clinton scoffed at "conspiracy nuts," as she called them, obsessed with Whitewater and compared them to cult figures, or cult groups rather, fascinated by UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet. Although she did concede one point of similarity between Whitewater and Heaven's Gate: thirty-nine castrated dead people.

[blueplum]

beginning in late June [2016]...

Peter Smith wrote two blog posts dated the day before he was found dead. One challenged U.S. intelligence agency findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Another post predicted: "As attention turns to international affairs, as it will shortly, the Russian interference story will die of its own weight."

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A lot of people with conspiracy theories kill themselves: Steve Kangas, Gary Webb, Danny Casolaro, Michael Ruppert.

You can google even more. It's not always easy to separate out the obvious nutters from those who might have been killed by other people to keep a story secret.

[BobL]

Creepy picture - totally has that ‘gay’ look.

[tennmountainman]

Arkancide.

[bigmak007]

A metaphor: Maybe he was trying to free a whale caught tangled in a pantsuit.....

[stylin19a]

click on the link and read the article.

[Fiddlstix]

Yes. He was 81 and he left a suicide note. He had been dealing with questionable people too.

Now. FYI I'm damn near 80 myself. Should that make a big difference in either case.
OR am I somehow less a person because of my age?

SO why don't you "Move Along" little boy

[jacknhoo]

I hope that is sarcasm.

[MileHi]

...which includes a statement police called a suicide note...

It's right there.

[Sacajaweau]

They’re calling a statement a suicide note....I’d like to see the statement. Sounds like the police are speculating.

[Mears]

“Move along. He was 81.”

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Delightful comment,I’m 84-———are you always so kind?

.

[Sacajaweau]

Yes....bad me...

[MileHi]

I guess we’ll find out more in a day or two.

[ebshumidors]

I’m feeling sleepy.

[bray]

Did he back into a knife twenty times or simply shot himself three times in the head?