[smoothsailing]

I remember hearing Lt.Gen. McInerney in an interview with Megyn Kelly that Wheeler had the “highest” security clearance.

He certainly did, he said it several times. It was very important to his theory of what may have happened.

Here's a partial transcript and a link to a video of the interview:

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..."What is disturbing is, this has to be a professional hit job. I got my last email from Jack on the 21st, other people had gotten them on Christmas Day, and he had a very large electronic footprint - he put out hundreds of emails a day, perhaps. He had lots of connections. Most of the well-known correspondents in the DC area knew him, had worked with him. Former Secretary of the Air Force Mike Wynne, he was his civilian assistant and extremely close to him. They were classmates at West Point, along with General Petraeus and others."

"The fact was that his latest expertise was really in cyber-warfare. It was early in his days in the military that he wrote a paper on chemical weapons, but his real and latest expertise was cyber-warfare, in which he helped Mike Wynne and General Buzz Moseley lead the Air Force, of all the services, into that area. And I participated in a number of meetings with, when he went with MITRE, that he had convened, a group of experts. And we discussed cyber-warfare. So that's the area that really he concerns me - he was very, very knowledgeable in that, plus the very high security clearances that he had. That's why I think that the FBI has go to get involved with this and find out who did this."

It's pure speculation on my part based on Gen. McInerney's theory, but the FBI may have thrown a blanket over the investigation and we may not get much new info for some time.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for posting that. Appreciate it.

Obviously he didn’t have “mental” issues.

[hoosiermama]

we may not get much new info for some time.

Particularly if they are connecting bigger issues/people to the initial crimeS. Only the FBI will have the power to investigate as deeply as it needs to be investigated. Even if they know he was murdered by some local thugs, they must eliminate/illuminate the possibility that they were hired or otherwise connected to a more global or national issue.

Hopefully they will be meticulous and thorough no matter how long they take.

[azishot]

Thanks, smoothsailing.

I believe the Lt. Gen. has tons more credibility than the nameless friends. He was right to call for the FBI to investigate. As usual, we’re impatient...well, at least I am. But after several weeks we still don’t know what the ACTUAL cause of death was.

[WestCoastGal]

"he put out hundreds of emails a day, perhaps. He had lots of connections. Most of the well-known correspondents in the DC area knew him, had worked with him."

SO where are they NOW!

[WestCoastGal]

“Richard Radez, a longtime friend who also graduated from West Point and Harvard Business, said he exchanged e-mails with Wheeler on Christmas. On the day after Christmas, Wheeler sent Radez an e-mail expressing concern that the nation wasn’t sufficiently prepared for cyber warfare.”

Timing seems interesting to me with the Iran situation.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for your excellent post of the Lt. General McInerney interview. We can only hope that the silence is for ultimate good purposes and not a cover-up. The interview also affirms his high-level security clearances, which throw completely into question the campaign by the MSM to make him seem a mental case.