Lloyd Miller, Research Director wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Smith <msmith01@flash.net>
> To: Mark <msmith01@flash.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 7:29 PM
> Subject: MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
>
> |>
> |> MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
> |>
> |> PART I:
> |> An Interim Report on the Death of
> |> Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, et al.
> |>
> |> by Nicholas A. Guarino
> |> Editor, The Wall Street Underground
> |> Former TV Host, Commodities Week
> |> Former Arkansas Businessman
> |>
> |> We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the two
> |> dozen brave and concerned citizens, officials, and military
> |> personnel who have risked disclosure and the abrupt end of
> |> their careers--if not their lives--by assisting us with timely
> |> and accurate information included in this report. For the
> |> information on the circumstances surrounding the death of
> |> Ron Brown, we are especially indebted to I-3, our third major
> |> informant within U.S. military ranks in the past year. "Eye
> |> Three," as he is nicknamed, is a highly-placed military
> |> source.
> |>
> |> Cilipi Airport, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2:10 P.M.,
> |> April 3, 1996:
> |>
> |> Captain Amir Schic lands a twin-engine corporate jet
> |> carrying the Croatian Prime Minister and the American
> |> Ambassador.
> |>
> |> It is one of five planes to land routinely on Runway 12 in the
> |> hour preceding the scheduled 3:00 arrival of IFOR-2 1, the
> |> Boeing T-43A carrying Ron Brown and his upbeat entourage
> |> of American industrial deal-makers.
> |>
> |> Cilipi Airport, 2:15 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Businessmen begin to straggle into the lobby, a few carrying
> |> umbrellas to ward off the very light to moderate rain.
> |> They're early because they're anxious to greet the 35
> |> Americans who at this moment are taking off from Tuzla,
> |> Bosnia, 130 miles to the northeast. Outside, a perfect
> |> breeze blows at 14 mph from east to west, perfect because
> |> at 120' from north, it is only one degree off from being an
> |> exact headwind for the landing pattern of IFOR-21.
> |>
> |> Contrary to some U.S. news reports, it is not a dark and
> |> stormy night. It is the middle of the afternoon.
> |>
> |> The Radio Shack of Cilipi Airport, about 2:30 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Maintenance Chief Niko Jerkuic, 46, nervously fiddles with
> |> the dials on his NDR (Nondirectional Radio) beacon, the only
> |> instrument he has that can guide approaching planes.
> |>
> |> In a couple of hours, he will be a rich man, the two American
> |> operatives told him, if he can quietly send IFOR-21 into Sveti
> |> Ivan (St. John's Hill), one of the highest mountains in the
> |> area at 2400 feet.
> |>
> |> Jerkuic will simply shut his beacon down-at the same
> |> moment that a decoy beacon is turned on by an American
> |> operative sitting near the base of Sveti Ivan. This is an old
> |> trick dating back to pirate days.
> |>
> |> He inspects his terrain map again and again.
> |>
> |> If he miscalculates ... well, the Americans did not look like
> |> men who would forgive someone who botches a serious
> |> assignment like this one.
> |>
> |> All Jerkuic knows is that there is someone on the plane who
> |> is very dangerous to the American President, and it is his
> |> job to make sure the plane never lands.
> |>
> |> With a shaky hand, he picks up a scrambled walkie-talkie
> |> and rechecks with the American agent who is sitting in a
> |> jeep at Sveti Ivan with another NDR in a suitcase beside him.
> |>
> |> Jerkuic glances out at some broken clouds scudding by 400
> |> feet above. They will have no effect. He will have to depend
> |> on the main cloud cover at 2,000 feet. Sveti Ivan rises
> |> almost 400 feet into this overcast. Jerkuic calculates that
> |> the new signal will alter the plane's course by a full ten
> |> degrees and send it far off course to the north into the
> |> mountain. His timing will have to be perfect.
> |>
> |> Money or no money, he begins to wonder if he's doing the
> |> right thing.
> |>
> |> Cilipi Airport, 2:48 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Captain Schic climbs to the control tower to give IFOR-21 a
> |> friendly radio greeting and reassurance that all is well.
> |> He describes the Cilipi weather: Visibility eight kilometers (5
> |> miles), winds still at 14 mph, all flights arriving non-normally.
> |> Flying at about 10,000 feet and 40+ miles away, Co-captains
> |> Ashley J. Davis, 35, and Tim Shafer, 33, thank Schic for his
> |> words of welcome.
> |>
> |> These conditions are later described by Newsweek and
> |> others as "the worst storm in ten years" with "visibility just
> |> 100 yards." (Their portrayal of the weather is flatly denied by
> |> Aviation Week and Space Technology.)
> |>
> |> In the clouds over the Adriatic Sea. 2:50 P.M.:
> |>
> |> IFOR-21 reports in to, Cilipi routinely. It is the last time their
> |> voice is heard.
> |>
> |> Split, Croatia, 2:52 P.M.:
> |>
> |> The main regional radar station loses IFOR-21 from its
> |> screen.
> |>
> |> Cilipi Airport, 2:52 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Jerkuic stops monitoring the control tower to detect any
> |> other planes in the landing pattern. There are none, so he
> |> calls the American at Sveti Ivan again. They countdown: 5,
> |> 4, 3, 2, 1. Simultaneously, Jerkuic shuts down and the
> |> American powers up.
> |>
> |> Kolocep Island, 2:54 P.M.:
> |>
> |> IFOR-21 is on course as it passes over Cilipi's first beacon,
> |> 11.9 miles from the airport. It then locks onto the second
> |> and final beam that is being transmitted from Sveti Ivan.
> |> This changes the plane's actual direction from 119' to 109',
> |> heading straight into Sveti Ivan. But the Cilipi control tower
> |> doesn't know the plane is now off course. It has no radar.
> |>
> |> Aboard an AWACS plane, 2:56 P.M.:
> |>
> |> The U.S. Air Force plane keeping track of air traffic in the
> |> Bosnian conflict area loses track of IFOR-21 just after it
> |> passes over Dubrovnik. (Being the military version of a
> |> Boeing 737-200, IFOR-21 is not easily lost.) Because it is
> |> less than a mile off course at this point, no one on the
> |> AWACS notes any problem.
> |>
> |> Srebreno, Croatia, 2:57 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Villagers hear a plane roaring past unusually low and close.
> |>
> |> Plat, Croatia, 2:57 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Villagers Ana and Miho Duplica rush outside and see
> |> IFOR-21 looming "like a ghost out of the clouds."
> |>
> |> Velji Do, Croatia, 2:58 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Everyone in this tiny collection of stone huts at the base of
> |> Sveti Ivan hears a plane go directly overhead in the clouds,
> |> then rev its engines mightily for one instant.
> |>
> |> Aboard the plane, the klaxon of its ground-proximity warning
> |> device suddenly blares, jolting Captain Davis. He
> |> immediately jerks the plane upward and to the left.
> |>
> |> The two to three seconds of warning are far too little. The
> |> plane's left wingtip touches ground, spinning it directly into
> |> the rocky hillside, making an earth-shaking explosion.
> |>
> |> There is the crackling hiss of a huge fireball as the plane
> |> and its large load of gas bum. Then a dead silence in the
> |> mist.
> |>
> |> The tail section remains quite intact, but the rest of IFOR-21
> |> is all over the hill, making later identification of many of the
> |> passengers impossible. The nose of the fuselage is just a
> |> blackish smudge in the ground.
> |>
> |> All 35 people are dead except for stewardess Shelly Kelly,
> |> who, riding in the tail, sustains only minor cuts and bruises.
> |>
> |> Cilipi, 3:18 P.M.:
> |>
> |> U.S. authorities are notified that IFOR-21 is down, location
> |> completely unknown. However, they are to suffer II @ hours
> |> of confusion before arriving at the scene-
> |>
> |> Republic of South Africa, approximately 4:00 P.M.:
> |>
> |> News reports say an attempt has been made on the life of
> |> Ron Brown's law partner, Tommy Boggs, by unknown
> |> assailants in a staged car accident in Capetown. Later,
> |> Boggs refuses to discuss it.
> |>
> |> Cilipi, later that afternoon:
> |>
> |> Niko Jerkuic goes home to collect his reward, but the
> |> reward is not waiting for him. It comes three days later: a
> |> bullet through the chest, administered just shortly before he
> |> is scheduled to be grilled by the U.S. Air Force accident
> |> investigation team.
> |>
> |> The hit squad wraps his hand around the gun and departs.
> |> The Americans do not want a live witness who could spill
> |> the beans later.
> |>
> |> Like many of the Whitewater dead, Jerkuic is immediately
> |> labeled a suicide, even though there's no evidence-and a
> |> chest wound is a rather rare cause especially with a large
> |> caliber pistol (unusual in Europe).
> |>
> |> The quick official reason given for bachelor Jerkuic's death
> |> is despondence over romantic troubles with his girlfriend.
> |> At this point, however, we have not been able to find any
> |> verification for this. Instead, what we have found is
> |> neighbors and friends who all agree that Jerkuic was not
> |> depressed. Like many of his friends who had survived the
> |> years of the Bosnian war, he was excited that life was finally
> |> getting better.
> |>
> |> Crash site, 7:20 P.M.:
> |>
> |> Four hours and 20 minutes after the crash, the first Croatian
> |> Special Forces search party arrives on the scene and finds
> |> only Ms. Kelly surviving. They call for a helicopter to
> |> evacuate her to the hospital. when it arrives, she is able to
> |> get aboard without assistance from the medics.
> |>
> |> But Kelly never completes the short hop. She dies enroute.
> |> According to multiple reports given to journalist/editor Joe L.
> |> Jordan, an autopsy later reveals a neat three-inch incision
> |> over her main femoral artery. It also shows that the incision
> |> came at least three hours after all her other cuts and
> |> bruises.
> |>
> |> This datum, of course, creates in one's mind a horrifying
> |> scene in the back of the chopper, as one Special Forces
> |> operative holds down the struggling woman and muffles her
> |> screams while another slices her leg.
> |>
> |> Further necropsies will probably not happen. At this writing,
> |> Clinton has ordered the cremation of all victims. It's hard to
> |> perform autopsies on ashes.
> |>
> |> All this cries, of course, for an explanation of why anyone
> |> would be so eager to kill Ron Brown that they would take 34
> |> innocent Americans along with him. I will address this issue
> |> in a moment. But First let me describe the current state of
> |> thinking on the cause of the crash.
> |>
> |> Confusion or Coverup?
> |>
> |> Ever since the crash, most reporters and officials have
> |> refused to even consider the possibility of foul play.
> |> Some of them have merely followed orders. But most of
> |> them have instinctively fled from the highly disturbing
> |> possibility that Ron Brown was assassinated by people
> |> close to his own President.
> |>
> |> So confronted with the total impossibility of two
> |> experienced pilots following an NDR beam to a crash site
> |> 1.6 miles off course, they all shrug their shoulders in
> |> bewilderment. None of their theories have come even close
> |> to explaining how a beacon that is accurate to within two
> |> feet at the landing point could lead the plane so far astray.
> |> But they have tried:
> |>
> |> - The Air Force's official explanation is that the pilots set the
> |> compass on the IFOR-21 10' off course. That is impossible.
> |> Pilots routinely set their compasses right before takeoff. If
> |> they set the compass off 10', they would not have been on
> |> course when they passed the first beacon, 11.8 miles from
> |> the airport. Instead they would have been miles and miles
> |> off course at this point. To make this explanation even more
> |> absurd, the plane was flying on the NDR signal, not the
> |> compass.
> |>
> |> - One desperate explanation was a nasty crosswind that
> |> "blew" the plane sideways. Not credible: This would require
> |> a wind 90' off from the actual wind.
> |>
> |> - Most of the press and officialdom have blamed poor
> |> visibility to some extent. To do this, they have to take the
> |> ferocity of the rainstorm later that afternoon and evening
> |> and move it back in time to the crash hour. But records
> |> show the weather from 2:54 P.M. to 2:58 P.M. was well
> |> within the normal limits for landing. And NDR beacons never
> |> get blown off course.
> |>
> |> In any case, pilots more than a few miles from an airport
> |> normally rely on a beam rather than visual sighting anyway.
> |>
> |> - Pilot fatigue and strain? Not likely on a 45minute flight.
> |>
> |> - Equipment malfunction on a rickety old plane? IFOR-21
> |> was the number two plane in the White House fleet: in
> |> essence, Air Force Two. It had carried Hillary and Chelsea
> |> Clinton and Defense Secretary William Perry just the week
> |> before. Everything about the flight was checked out and
> |> rehearsed a week in advance.
> |>
> |> - Lightning or other troubles causing the pilots to lose track
> |> of the beam? No, they were both drilled in the standard
> |> procedure for Cilipi: If you lose the beam or miss the airport,
> |> you immediately veer TO THE RIGHT AND UP to make sure
> |> you avoid Sveti Ivan. Indisputably, the pilots thought they
> |> were following the beacon, or they would have executed the
> |> standard right turn within seconds. Plus, their landing gear
> |> was locked down, showing that they expected to land at any
> |> moment.
> |>
> |> In sum, none of the "official" explanations to date have held
> |> any water. And all of them ignore the glaring fact that
> |> IFOR-21 did not simply stray off the path at the last moment;
> |> by all accounts, it went straight as an arrow to its doom the
> |> moment it left the Kolocep Island beacon and picked up the
> |> Cilipi beacon. The problem had to be the Cilipi beacon,
> |> which was shut down at the airport while a substitute
> |> transmitter at Sveti Ivan was turned on.
> |>
> |> And Even Worse...
> |>
> |> Could the problem have been that technician Niko Jerkuic
> |> had let his equipment become rundown? No, thousands of
> |> landings had taken place while his equipment was running,
> |> some just minutes before the crash. To transmit an NDR
> |> beacon that's ten degrees off, it takes more than an
> |> accident.
> |>
> |> Obviously, this explanation could do double duty by aiding
> |> the suicide theory. In this scenario, Jerkuic simply felt so
> |> bad about his shoddy work that he shot himself.
> |> Unfortunately for the theory, you can't just accidentally
> |> bump a knob and make the whole apparatus line planes up
> |> with Sveti Ivan. It takes a sustained effort by a qualified
> |> engineer. Plus, other planes had landed just before IFOR-21.
> |> So Jerkuic had to shut off his beacon at the last minute.
> |>
> |> The question arises: Could not the whole issue be resolved
> |> by a quick review of the tapes at the control tower? They
> |> probably could-if the tapes had not suddenly disappeared.
> |>
> |> And couldn't the air traffic controller shed some light on
> |> things? Certainly. But now he, too, has "committed suicide
> |> which, by the way, is a rare event for such a cause in
> |> Croatian culture.
> |>
> |> I repeat: No official anywhere is facing these facts. As a
> |> result, their "explanations" are laced with words like
> |> mysterious and unknown and inexplicably.
> |>
> |> The unanimous opinion of our informants: This information,
> |> if widely known, would eliminate any chance of Clinton's
> |> re-election.
> |>
> |> The First Time in History: Air Force Kills Investigation
> |>
> |> The chief investigator for Pratt & Whitney happened to be at
> |> the Paris Air Show on April 3.
> |>
> |> Because Pratt & Whitney always sends an investigator
> |> when a plane powered by their engines has a mishap, the
> |> man called his boss in America, and said, in effect, "We've
> |> just had a crash in Croatia. I think I'd better get down there."
> |> The response was, "Go pack."
> |>
> |> But as the investigator was packing at his hotel, the boss
> |> called back. "Don't go," he said to the astonished employee.
> |>
> |> "There's not going to be a safety investigation."
> |>
> |> Sure enough, the Air Force had, for the first time in its
> |> history, canceled the safety investigation of a crash on
> |> friendly soil. There would only be a quick token legal
> |> investigation designed to enable a committee to blame the
> |> pilots or some remote general and go home.
> |>
> |> At this time it's an open question whether the black boxes
> |> will play a role. Within hours of the crash, the Croatian
> |> Ministry of Transport announced that they had the black
> |> boxes. One and a half days after the crash, Croatian TV
> |> (plus Russian and French TV) announced that the FDR (flight
> |> data recorder) and the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) were
> |> safely in the hands of U.S. Marines. They said that soon "the
> |> cause of the crash will be assessed to find out what
> |> happened."
> |>
> |> The U.S. European command in Stuttgart, Germany, also
> |> stated that a black box was aboard.
> |>
> |> Later, the Pentagon brass stoutly disputed all this, stating
> |> that there were no black boxes aboard. They claimed the
> |> actual recovered boxes were designed to hold soda pop and
> |> toilet paper. (The Croats, who feel they can tell a reel of tape
> |> from a roll of toilet paper, are keeping mum.) Also, black
> |> boxes are usually painted bright orange, and they can't be
> |> opened with a thumb-or hardly at all.
> |>
> |> It is difficult to imagine that America's #2 VIP plane had no
> |> black box. And a veteran Air Force mechanic who claims to
> |> have worked on just about every T-43A in the USAF tells us
> |> he never saw one without a black box.
> |>
> |> Why would anyone want to Murder Ron Brown?
> |>
> |> By all accounts, Ron Brown was a charming fellow who
> |> worked very hard and very effectively to promote U.S.
> |> business.
> |>
> |> Why, then, would anyone want to kill him? And who would
> |> have the resources to do it by bringing down a large White
> |> House airplane?
> |>
> |> The answer, in brief, is that Ron Brown was going to
> |> prison-no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
> |>
> |> Also, Bill Clinton's presidency was surely going down with
> |> him. And that the President would not allow.
> |>
> |> To anyone who has followed the story closely, this
> |> conclusion is obvious. Brown was up to his neck in
> |> numerous major scandals: Whitewater, the Denver airport
> |> mess, Mena, the Keating Five, Lillian Madsen and her Haitian
> |> prostitutes, etc., etc. Small wonder that 22 congressmen
> |> wrote Clinton in February of 1995, demanding that he fire
> |> Brown.
> |>
> |> At the time of his murder, Brown was under investigation by:
> |> - a special prosecutor in the Justice Dept.
> |> - the FDIC
> |> - the Congressional Reform and Oversight Committee
> |> - the FBI
> |> - the Energy Dept.
> |> - the Senate Judiciary Committee
> |> - and even his own Commerce Dept. Inspector General.
> |>
> |> But in case you missed the piecemeal accounts in the
> |> papers, here is an extremely condensed summary of II of
> |> Brown's woes (which were shortly going to become
> |> Clinton's woes, as I'll show below):
> |>
> |> 1. How did North Vietnam recently get us to drop our trade
> |> embargo against them so suddenly? Easy. As a
> |> Vietnamese businessman and official later revealed to the
> |> press, the Communist government paid Brown $700,000 to
> |> do it. The money went into a Singapore bank account, the
> |> embargo fell, and Clinton squashed a feeble FBI attempt to
> |> investigate. He and Brown also neutralized a federal grand
> |> jury probe later.
> |>
> |> 2. Brown sold plane seats on other trade trips besides the
> |> one to Bosnia/Croatia. Companies making big contributions
> |> to the Democratic Party or the Clinton Victory Fund could
> |> buy access and get tax breaks or regulatory favors.
> |>
> |> 3. The 1/23/95 U.S. News & World Report broke the news
> |> that Brown had bought a $360,000 townhouse for his
> |> girlfriend, Lillian Madsen, a prominent political player and
> |> whorehouse madam from Haiti.
> |>
> |> 4. Brown used to receive $12,500 a month as the P.R. flack
> |> for Baby Doc Duvalier, the much-loathed dictator of Haiti.
> |> Brown also managed Baby Doc's $50 million investment
> |> fund, most or all of which is now in Vietnam firms.
> |>
> |> 5. Brown was a key board member of Chemfix, a Louisiana
> |> "waste management" corporation that landed a $2 1 0
> |> million contract with New York City in 1990 with Brown's
> |> help despite the fact that Chemfix had two contracts with
> |> other municipalities canceled because of the company's
> |> inability to perform. Brown got company stock at 24% of
> |> market value (making him millions) and New York mayor
> |> David Dinkins got to host the Democratic Convention. A
> |> typical Ron Brown win-win deal.
> |>
> |> 6. Brown founded Capital/Pebsco, which-fresh out of the
> |> box-got a contract with D.C. mayor Marion Barry to handle
> |> the city's pension funds. Not a bad start for a new company
> |> with no investing experience. Brown earned huge fees.
> |>
> |> 7. In a deal that left CIA people livid, Brown okayed the sale
> |> of a new U.S. gas turbine engine to China for use in its
> |> cruise missiles. McDonnell Douglas developed the turbine
> |> as a military engine, but by arbitrarily reclassifying it as
> |> "civilian," Brown enabled China to build a fleet of
> |> missiles-which they can point at America (whom else?),
> |> powered by our own engines. As part of the lucrative deal,
> |> McDonnell Douglas agreed to set up an airplane
> |> manufacturing plant using cheap slave labor in China.
> |>
> |> 8. Brown irked Congress and most of Europe by acting as
> |> point man for Clinton to bring Iranian Muslims and their
> |> weaponry into the Bosnia war. That broke the
> |> U.S.-endorsed arms embargo. The money for the arms was
> |> most likely from Commerce and Agriculture, slush fund
> |> money channeled to U.S. manufacturers, thence to
> |> U.S.friendly nations and firms overseas, thence to Iran. The
> |> arms included: helicopter gunships stinger missiles
> |>
> |> *land mines
> |> *anti-aircraft guns
> |> *anti-tank weapons
> |> *grenade launchers
> |> ... and other quality weaponry, most of which will remain on
> |> the European scene for decades to come, keeping the area
> |> destabilized.
> |>
> |> As one leading munitions dealer put it: "Iran/Contra was
> |> slingshots and cap guns compared to the quantities and
> |> size of arms given the Croatian Serbs."
> |>
> |> That is why the Croatians were enthusiastically hosting
> |> Brown's planeload of executives. They felt gratitude for the
> |> free arms as well as a desire to do deals.
> |>
> |> 9. Brown was the partner of a Democratic fundraiser named
> |> Nolanda Hill, who paid him $500,000 for his 50% interest in
> |> First International, Inc., a company that never made any
> |> profits. Most glaringly, Brown never invested a cent in First
> |> Int'l.
> |>
> |> First Int'l owned Corridor Broadcasting, which had defaulted
> |> on massive government loans of $40 million. The loans
> |> were passed to the FDIC, which was unsuccessful in
> |> collecting anything from Hill, even though at that time the
> |> firm was making large contributions to the Democratic
> |> Party and paying hundreds of thousands to Brown through
> |> shell corporations.
> |>
> |> These payments to Brown (three checks for $45,000 each)
> |> were the core of evidence gathered by Rep. William F.
> |> Clinger, Jr., that forced Reno to hire Daniel Pearson as
> |> special investigator of Brown's crimes. They were
> |> cashier's checks, all cut on the same day in 1993 with
> |> sequential numbers even though the money supposedly
> |> came from three contributors acting independently.
> |>
> |> Brown never disclosed or paid any taxes on these amounts.
> |>
> |> 10. By personally delivering a warning letter signed by
> |> Clinton, Brown was able to force a bargain deal with the
> |> Saudis for $6 billion in American military aircraft and
> |> hardware. The quid pro quo: To get the planes, the Saudis
> |> also had to accept a fat $4 billion phone contract with AT&T.
> |> Also part of the deal: AT&T had a side agreement with
> |> Brown's First International (see above). And the Democratic
> |> National Committee and the Clinton campaign fund were
> |> beneficiaries. This is how big business is done in Clinton's
> |> America.
> |>
> |> 11. The last nail in Brown's coffin was pounded in four days
> |> before the crash. FBI and IRS agents subpoenaed as many
> |> as 20 witnesses for a serious new grand jury probe of
> |> Brown in Washington. It seems that an Oklahoma gas
> |> company called Dynamic Energy Resources gave Brown's
> |> son Michael $500,000 in stock, a $160,000 cash payment,
> |> and exclusive country club memberships. Fortner Dynamic
> |> president Stewart Price told a Tulsa grand jury that the
> |> money was to be routed to Ron Brown, who was expected
> |> to "fix" a big lawsuit for Dynamic.
> |>
> |> There is little chance you heard about this deathknell, grand
> |> jury case. It was reported on radio station KTOK in
> |> Oklahoma on March 28 and on the front page of the
> |> Washington Times March 29. But then a lock was put on the
> |> story; the AP and New York Times wire services blocked
> |> any further release of the information. (Welcome to the New
> |> World Order)
> |>
> |> Final proof: the 2/8/96 Washington Post reported that Brown
> |> had retained top legal gun Reid Weingarten, a former high
> |> official in the Justice Department, as his criminal attorney.
> |> You don't pay his prices ($750 an hour) unless you know a
> |> criminal indictment is coming and you're probably going to
> |> jail.
> |>
> |> Janet Reno appointed Daniel Pearson as Brown's special
> |> prosecutor. When she gave him blanket permission to
> |> investigate anything, Brown angrily demanded that Clinton
> |> force her to withdraw Pearson. But Reno couldn't do that;
> |> she had been backed into a comer by Rep. Clinger, who is
> |> chairman of the House Govemment Refonn and Oversight
> |> Conimittee. Clinger had copies of Brown's First International
> |> checks, among other incriminating documents.
> |>
> |> When Clinton said he couldn't comply, Brown went ballistic.
> |> His fatal mistake-according to Brown confidants who
> |> requested anonymity-was telling Clinton that he wasn't
> |> going to take the rap. He wasn't going to let his wife and son
> |> take the rap, either. (Both had received hundreds of
> |> thousands of dollars in under-the-table payments
> |> themselves.) He was going to finger Bill and Hillary instead.
> |> That would have sunk the reelection campaign on the spot.
> |>
> |> Dead Man Walking
> |>
> |> >From that point on, Brown was dead.
> |>
> |> Like Vincent Foster before him, he knew too much. More
> |> than any man in Washington, he knew where all the money
> |> went for the payoffs, bribes, scams, money laundering,
> |> cover-ups, participation fees, hush money, and side
> |> deals-all the way from one-man operations to vast
> |> multinational trade treaty fixes.
> |>
> |> The phony suicide fakeout used on Foster could not be
> |> repeated, of course. But an airplane "whack," in the jargon
> |> of the intelligence community, is always viewed as an
> |> accident. So agents were sent--not directly by Clinton, but
> |> through a White House staffer--to a standing network of
> |> high-level killers, sometimes called the "Octopus." (See
> |> item on Danny Casolaro in Part II).
> |>
> |> If the frequently-stormy weather at Cilipi had not
> |> co-operated, there would always be another trip
> |> somewhere, somehow-and soon.
> |>
> |> Nick Guarino
>
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