Reply #89: Answers to your doubts

[Time for change]

You say that assassinating your opponents is too risky, and you bring up Watergate. That's not a good example for your case, because that's exactly the case that Nixon's defenders were making for him: He wouldn't have done it, because it's too risky. And he even had it taped.

I believe that the people I talk about in this thread likely represented huge threats to the Bush Administration and its agenda. One was probably on the verge of exposing the 2004 election fraud. Another may have been on the verge of further exposures of the Administration's lies over going to war in Iraq. Another was probably about to expose severe abuses of contractors that the Administration had hired to work in Iraq - which would have been a big blow to the Administration's staying in Iraq. Another was thought to possibly be on the verge of exposing the link between the Administration and the Enron scandal - possibly the largest corporate scandal in U.S. history. Hatfield had published a scathing biography on Bush, and I believe he was doing further research on the matter. And I don't think that any further comment about Wellstone is needed.

You bring up the Hatfield "suicide", which of the six that I mention probably represents the weakest case for assassination. But let's consider that one, since you bring it up: I presented evidence in my OP both for and against suicide, and made no definitive pronouncements on whether this was suicide or not. A witness that noticed a person to be in an apparently good mood just prior to a suicide DOES constitute evidence. The good majority of people who commit suicide are depressed, which means that they rarely appear to be in a good mood.

With regard to why the Administration would have Hatfield murdered, I don't see why that would be so hard to believe. They went to extreme lengths to prevent the publication of his book. They gave death threats to Hatfield and his family. This was not just a "less than colorful book". Why would they do it? Two possible reasons. Either to give a message to others who might be contemplating something similar (Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame), or because Hatfield was continuing to do research for his project, and they feared what he might come up with.

You bring up our subservient news media. Well, I submit that that's one additional reason that allowed them to do these things. They knew that they wouldn't be covered by the news media. And in fact they were correct in that assumption - the news media gave way too little attention to these deaths of very important people whose deaths received very cursory investigations. Can you imagine the coverage that would have occurred had a single one of Clinton's enemies have "suicided"? Ken Star, for example.