Anyone remember this story?
Bertha Champagne, a 62-year-old woman who worked as a maid/babysitter for W's brother Marvin Bush, was found mysteriously dead in Marvin's driveway. She had been crushed against a wall by her own vehicle. The story was that somehow the brakes became disengaged, crushing her against the wall.
Marvin, you may recall, had been appointed head of security at the World Trade Center towers in NYC just before 9/11.
The story wasn't reported in the media for six whole days. Then, only one story was published (in the Washington Post).
Here's a google search that will bring up references to this nearly unknown story:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bertha+marvin+bush+driveway&meta=This is interesting because it's another example of the White House sitting on this kind of incident and not informing the public. Only in this case, they sat on it for six days -- and the victim died.
Remember that the White House didn't actually release a statement on the Cheney shooting -- they were forced to after a local reporter in Corpus Christi (Jaime Powell) got a tip from the owner of the ranch (Katharine Armstrong) where the shooting occurred.
What is going on here? Why did everyone involved go to bed Saturday night while Whittington was sent to the ICU in Corpus Christi with multiple shotgun pellets embedded in his face and neck? Were they hoping the guy would die and they could cover the whole thing up like they covered up the death of Bertha Champagne?
Did Champagne overhear something in Marvin Bush's household about 9/11 and have to be gotten rid of? How does a car brake disengage when you're standing in front of it? (I would think there'd have to be someone IN the car to disengage the brake, right?)
And let's not forget the weird "Funeralgate" angle: Whittington, the guy Cheney shot, was involved in the Funeralgate mess back in 1999. He was appointed by Bush to replace Eliza May, the head of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, who had been investigating the largest funeral company in America (CSI) for desecrating graves at Jewish cemeteries they owned around Palm Beach, Florida -- dumping cadavers in the woods and doubling up cadavers in the same grave. Ms. May filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit against Bush claiming his aides (including Bush campaign manager and chief of staff Joe Allbaugh, later appointed by Bush to head up FEMA) pressured her to drop her investigation. Bush denied this under oath, but four witnesses (also under oath) contradicted his testimony. Later on, an SCI funeral-home director in Boca Raton, Florida named Peter Hartmann was found dead in his garage of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Nothing fishy going on here, right? Just another person close to the Bush administration who got mowed down and then they try to cover it up.
More info on Funeralgate here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x403640