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Abundant and Compelling Evidence
December 5, 2004
David R. Griffin
The authors of this important book argue that Senator Paul Wellstone's
death, 10 days before the 2002 elections, was an assassination, most
likely ordered by the Bush administration.
Directly confronting the widespread tendency to reject all "conspiracy
theories," the authors point out that "the idea that every theory that
implies the existence of conspiracy ought to be rejected out of hand"
is no more rational than the idea that every such theory should be
accepted. Rather, "each case has to be evaluated on the basis of the
evidence that is relevant and available in that case." On that basis,
they argue, if we look at ALL the relevant evidence and employ the
scientific method of inference to the best explanation, we must
conclude that the theory that Wellstone was assassinated is far more
probable than the official theory, according to which his Airplane
crash was an accident.
The evidence includes several facts suggesting that the NTSB (National
Transportation Safety Board) colluded with the FBI in a cover-up:
1. FBI agents from Minneapolis arrived at the crash site within 2 hours
after the crash, even though the trip from Minnesota to Duluth to the
crash site would have taken at least 3 hours--so they must have
departed before the plane crashed.
2. When asked for the times at which private flights had arrived in
Duluth that morning, the FAA said the records had been destroyed.
3. Considerable disinformation about weather conditions was quickly
given to the press.
4. Although regulations called for the investigation to be carried out
by the NTSB, not the FBI (because the crash site was not designated a
crime scene), the FBI agents were there for 8 hours before the NTSB
team arrived.
5. The FBI, even though there illegally, prevented the local "first
responders" from taking photographs.
6. Although it was the NTSB's responsibility to determine the cause of
the crash and although the FBI's prior presence was illegal, the NTSB
leader publicly accepted the FBI's declaration, made before the NTSB's
investigation, that there was no evidence of terrorism.
7. When the NTSB team finally carried out its own investigation, it was
unable to find either the cockpit recorder, which it assumed the plane
had had, or the black box.
8. The NTSB held no public hearings, claiming that it was not a
sufficiently "high-profile" case.
9. The NTSB's final report concealed the fact of the FBI's
participation.
10. The NTSB investigation was headed by Acting Director Carol Carmody,
a Bush appointee who had earlier ruled that there was no foul play in
the small airplane crash in 2000 that took the life of Governor Mel
Carnahan of Missouri, the Democratic candidate for the Senate who was
killed 3 weeks before his expected victory (over John Ashcroft).
The evidence also includes some facts strongly suggesting the falsity
of the NTSB's official conclusion, which was that the plane crashed
because the pilot failed to maintain proper speed, causing the plane to
stall.
1. The plane would have stalled only if it slowed to below 70 knots,
yet it was equipped with a device that emitted a loud warning at 85
knots.
2. The plane was being flown by two experienced and fully certified
pilots, a fact--obfuscated in the NTSB report-that makes this kind of
pilot error very unlikely.
3. The NTSB's theory fails to explain why, about two minutes before the
crash, all communication was abruptly terminated and the plane began
going off course.
The evidence also includes facts suggesting that the plane was instead
brought down by an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapon:
1. The plane's fuselage burned, although it was separated from the
wings, which contained the fuel.
2. The plane's electrical system, which would be affected by an EMP,
was in the fuselage, and the fire from the fuselage gave off blue
smoke, which is indicative of an electrical fire.
3. An EMP could explain why the plane simultaneously went off course
and lost its radio about two minutes before the crash.
4. At the same time, cell phones and garage doors in the area behaved
in a way consistent with the occurrence of an EMP.
5. An NTSB spokesman professed ignorance about the existence of EMP
weapons that could have brought down the plane, although the existence
of such weapons had been known for several years.
An important part of the authors' case is the fact that the Bush
administration would have had several motives:
1. Wellstone's defeat would return control of the Senate to the
Republicans.
2. Wellstone's death 10 days before the election meant that $700,000 in
the Republican campaign chest could be transferred, the very next day,
to the (successful) effort to defeat Max Cleland in the Senate race in
Georgia.
3. Wellstone was the biggest obstacle in the Senate to several
Republican policies, such as those involving Iraq, Colombia, the SEC,
tax cuts, and Homeland Security, and he was the strongest voice in
Congress calling for a full investigation into 9/11.
4. Two days before his death, Wellstone reported that Cheney had told
him: "If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will
do whatever is necessary to get you."
5. Wellstone had developed a 7-point lead in the polls over Norm
Coleman, the Bush administration's hand-picked candidate.
Finally, with regard to the question whether the Bush administration
would commit such a heinous act, the authors argue that an
administration that "compounded lie upon lie to . . . send hundreds of
thousands of young American men and women into harm's way is
not an administration that would hesitate to kill a single senator."
The authors conclude that the evidence shows beyond reasonable doubt
that Wellstone was assassinated. They have, in my view, made a
convincing case.
David Ray Griffin, author of "The New Pearl Harbor" and "The 9/11
Commission
Report: Omissions & Distortions

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