I do various kinds of writing, mainly publicity pieces and occasional "think" pieces. I am not a lawyer.
I am not saying that he failed to uncover anything, I am saying that the overall picture presented is belied by some obvious facts. Car accidents for obscure journalists are too easy to arrange. Really evil systems do not produce documents with nefarious plots written down and signed off on by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of course, the instance you adduce was a contingency plan never implemented). A lot of "evidence" in these sort of books are rumors, uncorroborated and from dubious sources, that would not pass muster under current journalistic standards, and certainly not in a court of law.
I am sure that the DEA is sometimes overly zealous, and that the presence of a free press is a necessary safeguard. But if they were aiming at arbitrarily killing people they "don't like", they would not engage in direct assault, which begs for media attention. They would grab them up off the street and shoot them in the back of the head, making it look like a mob execution.
Of course Baxter was a suicide, unless it was amateur hour for killing him. Someone like that would probably disappear, with the appearance of having taken flight to avoid prosecution, with enough ambiguity to spook others, but no forensic data that might get out of hand.
Again, my point is that a really evil underworld of spies and mobsters would have gotten rid of Bamford. It is not a question of bravery. Dead is dead.
I have no idea what you are talking about, in referring to a fortified ghost town. The fact is, nothing happened. Period.
In the nature of the case, unless one can examine the credibility of the informed participants, or corroborate their testimony in some way, it is likely to be subject to controversy. Anyone can cook up stories, and a lot of people in the world of intrigue are inherently shady.
Again, Perot's courage is not to the point. If professional black ops were involved, he would have been taken out of the race.
Your remark about the current Bush is remarkably ill- informed. In poll after poll, he was shown to be beating Gore, and even once he dropped behind, it was never far or for long. The result, a virtual tie, was not unanticipated. Thus, it simply untrue to say he never had a chance. And, again, if blacks ops were involved, the win would have been decisive, reflecting, in fact, the polls going into the election, which showed Bush as winning among most likely voters...... |
