Monday, December 22, 2008

Connell update


This report focuses on the alleged connection to the Ohio vote as a motive for possible murder. Maybe, but I think it is also likely that the missing emails are also a significant factor.

Over on Corrente there was some comparison of the Connell crash to the suicide of Vince Foster. Are those who consider this incident suspicious being just as doltish as the dolts who continue to bleat that the Clintons killed Foster?

No. For two reasons:

1. The Vince Foster suicide was a legitimate topic of speculation and investigation -- when it occurred. Investigation proceeded. Within a few months, I became satisfied that the man was genuinely depressed. Now, many years later, those who continue to scream paranoia about the event (and most of the screamers, I am sorry to say, are now on the left) do so either because they suffer from advanced CDS, or because they love conspiracy theories more than they love fact.

2. I never heard any credible evidence that Vince Foster had received death threats. The current case is different. The news report embedded above offers several indications that Connell had indeed received threats. (Why the man continued to fly his plane is beyond me.)

As noted in an earlier post, Larisa Alexandrovna used Connell as a source. She has written:
Mr. Connell has confided that he was being threatened, something that his attorneys also told the judge in the Ohio election fraud case.
That one sentence places the Connell incident on a level the Foster case never reached.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We'll know we have crossed the line when Dan Burton starts crashing planes in his backyard with watermelons as crash-test dummies.

Anonymous said...

This is a troubling case. The simple story is Connell was a threat and he had one of those "accidents." His testimony was removed permanently and there's no way to find out what happened in 2004, no clear way. But was Connell cooperating? Another simple story is that Connell just had a plane crash, uncommon but they occur, and it's a coincidence. There is a third option, quite sinister. Connell was not the Rosetta Stone of this conspiracy. He wasn't cooperating but even if he did he didn't have the key information. But he did have one of those "accidents" to draw attention to the wrong avenue of information, throw the scent off the real path for a good while. It wouldn't be the first time.

Anonymous said...

I'll dissent from the received wisdom on the Foster case a little.

There are several things that Joe didn't mention that ratchet up the suspicion factor for the Foster case. One is, simply, how did he get to Ft. Marcy Park? Why did things that should have been found, if they were there all along, not get found, until later, after suspicious evidence handling or extra people showing up? (Keys to the car he supposedly drove himself were not found in his pants, despite a police style search of his person for id and pocket contents, until other WH personnel entered the room where his body was held. What about the so-called suicide note in his briefcase? And why was Foster taking day trips to Switzerland?

There is more to the Foster story than is admitted, and the apparent coverup of all these discrepancies extended to the American Spectator's Bob Tyrell reviewer of the Foster expose book.

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