It's best IMHO to start with an assumption that none of us have any idea what happened, and let the investigation go from there. The amount of speculation here is astounding, but then again, what would an Internet forum be without speculation. :-)
Most of the "speculation" here is based on the posted article.
I agree we should let the investigation go from there... or should I say HERE. We have seen countless times where govt. investigations tend to be how do I say it....less than truthful in the outcomes they seek.
Free republic is here to put thousands of minds together and look at things from every angle and come up with questions "5 official investigators" either did not come up with or willfully ignored ( gorelick,reno,etc).
If we wanted to assume that we will not have any idea what happened till it is officailly investigated then we should march in the streets and call for Dan Rather to come out of retirement and tell us what he thinks we should know.
Your thought process is an old one. I can see someday Free republic having thier own reporters whose job it is to gather information just for this forum. Then post it and do in person follow up and post it for this forum. Where we become our own information gathering service. Then as a whole we investigate what isnt being investigated. We should have our own slush fund for paying for information that needs to be paid for.
We need to not sit back and wait for others to tell us what they want us to know, we need to be generating the questions that they should be answering for us.
WALKINGFEATHER