Posted on 10/22/2009 5:05:26 PM PDT by Sioux-san
As late as the Woodward-Bernstein era, people who chased down good stories and reported the facts were called “reporters.” Today, they are called “conspiracy theorists.” In trying to bust out the increasingly obvious story that Bill Ayers played a major role in the writing of Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father, I have found myself hindered by my reporting on Clinton-era mischief. Consider the following post on Powerline by its respected and halfway sympathetic editor, Scott Johnson:
“Cashill's apparent penchant for conspiracy theories -- a look at his Web site suggests he believes that former Clinton administration Commerce Secretary Ron Brown might have been murdered -- should also give one pause.”
Unlike others who have attacked from the same angle, Johnson accurately includes a “might” in describing my conclusions about Brown’s death. Before writing me off as some moonbat, however, Johnson and others might want to take a deeper look at why I came to the conclusion I did in my book, Ron Brown’s Body.
What follows is just one detail out of many that should have interested any reporter. It involves a woman named Zdenka Gast, a Croatian-born American citizen. U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith entered her name into the official record. Gast had been scheduled to fly with Brown to Dubrovnik on his fatal flight but thought better of it.
Said Galbraith to Air Force interviewer Capt. John Cairney, “There were problems in—in—in this—in concluding this deal where they wanted to sign a letter of intent, and so, rather than—than go on the Brown trip, she stayed with the Inron [sic] people to do the final negotiations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cashill.com ...
I thought Ron Brown was murdered twice, once by gun shot and then again by plane crash.
There was a .45 caliber hole in the top of his head. The x-rays were posted on the internet back then. Most of the people died in the plane crash, but Brown seems to have survived, and was shot by the team that arrived at the plane. A stewardess also survived, but mysteriously died in the helicopter on the way to the hospital. And the air traffic controller who may have conspired in the crash “committed suicide” the next day.
The forensic xrays of Brown’s body disappeared out of a locked safe, much as the xrays of Vince Foster’s did in similar circumstances. But one of the military forensic experts had made copies and was taking them on the lecture circuit (!), so the photos got out after all.
Brown had threatened the previous week that if he was taken down for his crimes, as prosecutors were threatening to do, then he would take clinton down with him.
Hmmm. sounds like murder to me.
“I thought Ron Brown was murdered twice, once by gun shot and then again by plane crash.”
His body was recovered from the plane crash and when examined, the bullet hole in his skull was discovered. Then a 2nd autopsy said there was no bullet hole.
Check Alamo Girl’s archives “2 degrees of separation” - she did yeoman’s work in tracking all the Clinton scandals and bodies. Brown’s death and Vince Foster’s were both covered quite well through her and other Freeper investigations.
I think it was the other way around.
Thank you so much for remembering the Downside Legacy!
Your welcome. I spent many hours reading your work. It is an extraordinary collection of events.
I seem to remember a link on the FR frontpage to ‘Downside Legacy’ but I haven’t been able to find it recently. It’s such a good resource for researching the Clinton years/administration. I hope your website is still active.
Please ask Jim to again link to it on the frontpage.
Thanks for all your hard work.
FReegards,
RT
Thanks for the link. I forgot that the link wasn’t titled ‘Downside Legacy’, but was listed as Alamo-Girl.com instead.
And it’s the 1st link on the left on the FR Home page, (duh, LOL). I need to look at the home page more often - lots of good stuff there.
I have my FR link go directly to the News forum as that’s where I get the best news of the day. How did we ever get the facts without FR?
:>D
Thank you so much for posting the link, MileHi! And thank you for your interest in the DSL, RebelTex!
My pleasure to point to your great work!
FReegards
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