Reply #59: He was found dead four days after Valerie Plame was outed. His office and computers

[Peace Patriot]

were searched, and, four days after that, the entire Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network that Plame headed was ADDITIONALLY outed (also by Novak).

This Guardian article says that Kelly was found dead "days after he was named as the source of a hugely controversial BBC story on the Iraq war." But neither the Guardian, nor any other established news organization, has ever mentioned or wondered about the provocative coincidence of dates between the Kelly story and the Plame story. Here's the time-line:

May-June 2003 (Iraq invasion was in March): Kelly (British WMD expert; insider) begins whistleblowing, anonymously, to the BBC, about the "sexed up" pre-war intel; in the same time period as the Scooter Libby/Judith Miller meetings over here.

Late June/first week of July 2003: Kelly is mysteriously outed to his bosses, interrogated at a "safe house" and threatened with the Official Secrets Act.

July 6, 2003: Wilson publishes his article (exposing bogus Niger/Iraq nuke allegation)

July 7, 2003 (the next day): Blair is informed that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things" (not "HAD said"--COULD say) (Hutton Report); Kelly is nevertheless forced to partially recant before a parliamentary committee; he is outed to the press, and sent home without protection and apparently without surveillance (!).

July 14, 2003: Valerie Plame outed (by Novak).

July 18, 2003: Kelly found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances; his office and computers are searched.

July 22, 2003: Novak ADDITIONALLY outs the entire Brewster-Jennings network--hidden agents and contacts around the world, who worked with the U.S. to stop the proliferation of dangerous weapons--putting all their lives in great danger, and disabling all counter-proliferation projects. Novak NAMED the front company--B/J--making it easier for bad guys in foreign governments to identify anyone who worked with Plame.

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How are the Kelly and Plame stories related? What is the connection? My guess: A Bushite plan to PLANT WMDs in Iraq, after the invasion--to be "found" by the U.S. soldiers who were "hunting" for them (notably accompanied by Judith Miller)--was foiled by someone in the CIA counter-proliferation network, who possibly didn't even know the origin of the weapons movement (that it was a Bushite plot)--and the consequent outings of Plame and Brewster-Jennings, and the murder of Kelly, were efforts to prevent a leak about their diabolical, failed plot to plant the WMDS in Iraq, and to punish whoever foiled their grand scheme. The purpose of the scheme--part #1 of which was the Niger/Iraq nuke forgeries--was to cement Bush and Blair's political power with a justification for the war, and possibly also to trump the CIA, make fools of them, and make them more purge-able, by "finding" the weapons that the CIA said weren't there.

Notable: 1. The full-court press mobilized by the Bush Junta, to out Plame and Brewster-Jennings--contact with at least six reporters in one week, and putting top Bushites at max risk of treason charges. Why all this panic about Wilson's article? Why not just let it drown in the war profiteering corporate news monopoly "river of forgetfulness"? (Answer: They were worried about something ELSE--not just pre-war lies--a matter they could manipulate in the press--but exposure of their scheme to plant the weapons--a far more difficult thing to "spin," if it leaked out from credible sources.) 2. Why all the fuss in England about a rather mild accusation by Kelly--that the pre-war intel was "sexed up"--something everybody in the world knew by then? What did Kelly know IN ADDITION, that could have gotten him killed? (The warning to Blair about what Kelly "COULD say"?). 3. Judith Miller (NYT war propagandist, pusher of the WMD lies, with close ties to the Pentagon and the Neo-cons) was an old friend of Kelly's. She had used him as quoted source in her book "Germs." It was to Miller that Kelly wrote his last email, on the day he died, in which he expressed concern about "the many dark actors playing games." His emails were otherwise upbeat and forward-looking (not suicidal). I suspect that this very curt, and very dark-sounding, email may have been intended by him either as irony (he suspected Miller of outing him to his bosses) or a warning (anyone with any knowledge of the WMD-planting scheme would be at risk).

The Hutton inquiry ignored all sorts of evidence that points to Kelly's murder--his upbeat emails (argue against suicide); his "dark actors" email to Miller (indicating fear); the lack of blood at the scene (paramedics report), and evidence the body was moved; the lack of drugs in his blood (pills spilled nearby but not nearly enough in his system to kill him--very little ingestion); the incredibly poor choices, for a bio-chem scientist, of suicide by wrist-slashing (one wrist, wrong artery) out in the cold and the rain. Hutton went out of his way to OMIT most of this evidence. So it is no surprise that the lack of fingerprints on the knife (yet more evidence of tampering with the scene) was suppressed.

But one of the big things that bothers me is: Where was his surveillance? Kelly was a major threat to the Blair government, just on the known evidence (hounding of him throughout the government, interrogation of him at a "safe house," war on the BBC over his disclosures, etc.) And they didn't have a surveillance team on him, when they sent him home??? That is not believable. And so, where was the surveillance team, as he bled to death all night out in the rain near his home?

Often the biggest clues to government crime is when normal systems don't work (are disabled). A prime example is the NORAD standdown on 9/11 (standard operating procedures not implemented). In this case, if Kelly was a threat to national security--and they certainly behaved as if he was--the British government would be derelict NOT to watch him, after they let him go. And even if their motives were bad ones--to cover up their war lies--they would be nuts NOT to use secret government systems to watch him, track his movements, bug his communications, and log his every move and contact. They had an insider--an eminent authority and highly credible whistleblower--leaking their pre-war lies to the BBC! And they weren't watching him?

So, where WAS his surveillance, as he died? They would not have had to give themselves away--just an anonymous phone call would have saved his life. Hutton never asked this, of course. And no one else is asking it--not any Kelly investigator that I know of. I hope someone does--and I hope Kelly investigators at least have a go at trying to connect the dots to the Plame outings, because there is just too much coincidence in those dates, above.


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