Posted on 02/14/2016 1:37:21 PM PST by PghBaldy
"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.
"He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he said. Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.
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Bedclothes meaning sheets, blankets and such.
It would most likely mean a pillow over the TOP of his head, which can happen easily, versus a pillow over his eyes or mouth, which would be inconsistent with the tenor of the description.
We do not know exactly what ‘on top of his head’ means. Inferring location depends on how people think of it.
In March of 1989, Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, acting on recommendations by a Costa Rican congressional commission investigating drug trafficking, barred North, John Poindexter, Major Gen. Richard Secord, former U.S. Ambassador Louis Tambs, and former CIA Costa Rican Station Chief Jose Hernandez from entry into Costa Rica. According to documents from the commission, the Costa Rican investigation was triggered by "the quantity and frequency of the shipment of drugs that passed through" land and secret airstrips controlled by "southern front" CIA point man John Hull.
But simply heart failure could be the cause. I know an old man who went to the senior center for dinner, bowed his head as if he was praying, and that was it.
Oh lord, THAT Poindexter.
I wonder if he had sleep apnea - being on your back with a pillow on your face could be lethal if it was severe...
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Despite the Reagan-Bush Justice Department's strategic inaction in prosecuting Contra-connected drug operations, legal actions were taken against some disillusioned Contra supporters who spoke out against the drugs and corruption.
On June 28, 1988 a Federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, handed down indictments against 13 pro-Contra mercenaries for conspiring to violate the Neutrality Act, which prohibits U.S. citizens from direct, private involvement in foreign wars.
A key target of the indictment was former Contra-trainer, Jack Terrell. Months before the Iran-Contra scandal erupted, Terrell, a U.S. citizen, voluntarily provided the Miami U.S. Attorney, the FBI, Congress, and journalists with information about the grittier aspects of the illegal Contra network. As an investigator for the International Center for Development Policy, Terrell had prepared an exhaustive list of the major and minor players in the Contra secret war.
However, after Terrell appeared on a June, 1986, CBS news-magazine show, National Security Advisor John Poindexter wrote a memo to President Ronald Reagan terming Terrell a "terrorist threat" because of his public allegations about the Contra network's alleged human-rights abuses, drug-running and arms smuggling.
Poindexter also suggested that Terrell might be a foreign agent for the Nicaraguan government, threatening to assassinate the President.
"This is the ultimate reward you get for talking," Terrell said in an interview after he was indicted. "When you blow the whistle, when you talk against the policy and start exposing corruption... then the administration's policy starts falling apart and people start falling off the wall like Humpty Dumpty. Then they go after you with everything they got."
It turns out that Terrell had been attracting concern for a while. Eighteen months earlier, Robert Owen, a former aide to then-Senator Dan Quayle, wrote North a memo stating that Terrell "knows too much and it would do no one any good if he went to the press. He has to be finessed out."
He was.
Wow. Just wow.
Anyone else besides me making a cowboy hat out of tinfoil right now?
—Would the covers really be unrumpled—
That’s how I found my Mom. Maybe different types of heart attacks cause different physical reactions? Mom’s was Atrial Fibrillation, + plus a fault defibrillator implant.
Interesting article talking about Poindexter as a “tool” of, among others, Poppa Bush...
—Obviously, a pillow over ones head is not either comfortable or a safe way to sleep. —
I find it quite comfortable in the morning to keep light from my eyes. It’s not like a feather pillow weighs 50 pounds!
I’d like to know more about the hunting weekend plans, and who was invited, really, everything about this whole trip. Poindexter was a very dirty man. Is he still?
Between the head and the headboard there is some pillow room, and perhaps that is what is meant by the Pillow over the head remark in the article.
Same name; totally Not same man.
—everyone I’ve ever known who had a fatal heart attack either clutched their chest —
The Grip.
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