In a Fox News report. By Megan Kelly. She interviewed retired Air Force Lieutenant General Tom McInerney, a Fox contributor. He said he thought this had to be a professional hit job.
He said there was a need for an FBI investigation into Wheeler’s death based upon the fact that Wheeler had top government security clearances and moved in very high government circles. He had also been an “expert” in cyber-warfare.
My take on this is that the timing of his death coincides with two very significant developments.
One, Wheeler may have been targeted and neutralized by Iranian black ops agents as a result of the covert Stuxnet virus attack on that country’s nuclear reactor computers. Israel just recently came out with an estimate that the Stuxnet virus attack set the Iranian goal of a nuclear weapon back as much as five years. It is generally acknowledged that Stuxnet was a covert op but no one is talking ownership.
Two, the Iranians could have combed the “chatter” from the WikiLeaks dump. What they found may have pointed the finger at Wheeler. It’s how they would respond even if it was after the fact and the damage had already been done. Retaliation is a strong currency within these regimes.
Iranians would almost certainly be able to position a black ops team in the U.S. for as long as it was necessary to take out a target. Wheeler may just be the first in a long line of casualties resulting from the WikiLeaks debacle.
Yes. He was hit by a sea-launched missile, right on the head. BONK! I saw the contrail.
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4Runner, my theory meshes with yours. I will add that the outlandish character assaults (the ‘incindiary’ devices in the neighbors house—rat bombs; the finding of Wheeler’s cell phone in that home’s kitchen; he was drunk and ‘homeless looking’) are all designed to make this ‘go away’ as some kind of flukie, sad, holiday crime.
Not so fast.
He was a veteran; he had to be incredibly intelligent to hold the positions he held in our Government.
I think (again, just my theory) that he knew he was being watched; followed. He tried to stay ‘public’ (the trains, the restaurant). The hit was first tried...with him being possibly drugged to get ‘information’ about who else was working on those programs; he got away.
I still think the shoe (that he carried...what man’s shoe gets so badly damaged that it cannot be worn?) has evidence of his attackers (that is why he carried it).
The FBI allowing the local Police to do the heavy lifting? The weird news trickles (like the near viral, goofy tie in to the Arkansas bird kill). This ‘happened’ and now public damage control (it went newsworthy too fast) must be done it get it off of the front pages.
The General also said that Wheeler left huge cyber foot prints from his jobs!!!
Best theory yet.
I am amazed at some of the authoritative blathering on here from people who have not even comprehended the clues already published, such as the ridiculous assumption that he merely crawled into a dumpster to get warm -- 12 miles from where he was last seen behaving as if ill, intoxicated, poisoned or brain injured, in another city with a different trash route.
Even if he stole a car or got a 12-mile ride from a cabbie or a commandeered driver, such a driver on seeing the publicity would recognize that there are enough cameras en route to incriminate him if he does not speak up first. Police are probably also looking at stolen car reports to see if there are any in the vicinity of the Newark dump.
The cold weather and short days are actually helpful factors, since they would have limited his ability to move on foot for any great distance.