The Kelly Affair & elusive WMDs

This blog takes a brief look at The Kelly Affair, Curveball & Plamegate with WMD providing a constant background theme.

• Norman Baker MP begins investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly (Jul 3, 2006)
  British LibDem MP Norman Baker two months into a private, year-long investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who found himself under seige after apparently accusing the government of ‘sexing up’ the case for war to a BBC journalist. The Hutton Inquiry, framed as a battle between the government and the BBC, failed to probe the manner in which Dr Kelly met his death. Suicide was largely assumed, but the blunt gardening knife found at the scene, the fact that only a single ulnar artery was transected, the lack of blood splattering, and the tiny amount of co-proxamol residue found in Dr Kelly’s stomach, points up the need for closer scrutiny.
• Police could not find any fingerprints on Dr Kelly’s ’suicide’ knife
  Fresh doubts were raised over the suicide of Dr David Kelly after it emerged that no fingerprints were found on the knife he supposedly used to kill himself.
• Weapons Expert Dr David Kelly was Murdered [article by Norman Baker] (20 October 2007)
  Why I know weapons expert Dr David Kelly was murdered, by the MP who spent a year investigating his death.
• Part Two of Norman Baker’s shocking investigation.
• Would you trust someone called curveball?
  well the bush administration did!
• US relied on ‘drunken liar’ to justify war’Crazy’ Iraqi spy was full of misinformation, says report
• American people misled on Plame affair Says McClellan
  McClellan, former Press Secretary to President Bush, described how he misled the American people about who was involved in the leaking of the classified information about CIA agent Valerie Plame. He also described how he was deliberately not told the truth by Vice President Cheney and Scooter Libby.
• The Complete Bill Maher Interview Valerie Plame & Joe Wilson
  Interview of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson which aired on Real Time Friday 11-2-2007

 

From Dallas to Watergate…

From Dallas to Watergate, it’s all here…

• Dallas Police Interviews
  Various interviews of Chief Jesse Curry of the Dallas Police and Dallas DA Henry Wade. Included is the midnight interview of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shooting by Jack Ruby.
  
• Kennedy Assassination Thwarted Weeks Before His Death
  A former Secret Service agent says there was a plot to kill president John F. Kennedy in Chicago three weeks before he was assassinated in Dallas.
  
• David Atlee Philips AKA Maurice Bishop
  CIA operative Antonio Veciana testified regarding his case officer Maurice Bishop. The sketch of Bishop was based on Veciana’s recollections of the appearance of the man meeting with Oswald. He was shot in the head after testifying, but survived. Phillips was The Chief of Western Hemisphere Operations. He denied knewing Oswald, but the HSCA wanted him charged for perjury. He died of cancer in 1988.
  
• House Select Committee on Assassinations – 1976
  Established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, probably as a result of a conspiracy.
  
• 1977 CBS report on Oltmans & De Mohrenschildt
  1977 CBS report on Williem Oltmans’ HSCA testimony concerning his interviews with Georege De Mohrenschildt.
  
• Bill Hicks on JFK
  Bill Hicks talking about JFK from Revelations.
  
• 40 years after RFK’s death, questions linger
  ‘Three major assassinations rocked America in the 1960s. Two of the assassins – Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, and James Earl Ray, who shot Martin Luther King Jr. – are dead. But Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is living out his days in the California state prison at Corcoran. He is 64 and has never fully explained what happened that night other than to say he can’t remember it….’
• Mad Money in High Places Citizen Hughes
  ‘Citizen Hughes is mostly about big money in high places, of cash siphoned from Hughes’ Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: “I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me.” On Hubert Humphrey: “A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently.” On Richard Nixon: “My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life.”‘
• Remarks By President Gerald Ford On Taking the Oath Of Office As President
  “The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution. But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”