...family disclosed the emails. (I'd have to do some research on that.)
I'm interested in the late June period. Kelly seems to have been taken by surprise that his bosses had come to know or strongly suspected that he was the BBC whistleblower. All I know, from various readings, is that a "friend" he ran into at the Royal United Services Institute (RUMI) warned him. (I don't think this friend has ever been identified.) And this has a haunting resemblance to the sort of things Miller is suspected of having done in the Plame outing--being a conduit for "rumors," planting information so that others get it and disguising the source.
This warning from a friend caused Kelly to write a letter to his bosses saying that it might be him, which began the chain of events that led to his death about 3 weeks later. After interrogating him at a "safe house," threatening him, and forcing him to partially recant before a Parliamentary committee, the Blairites then outed him to the press and sent him home without protection (and apparently without surveillance). After various emails to people (none of which is a suicide note, and which, on the contrary, are forward-looking), he took a walk in the afternoon of July 17, and never came back.
His body was found the next day under a tree near this home, where he had apparently slit one wrist and bled to death all night out in the cold and rain (not a very scientific way to kill yourself--he was a topnotch scientist). The evidence of foul play was disregarded (not enough blood at the scene; body moved) and it was quickly deemed a suicide, but there was never any proper inquest. That was shut down by the bogus Hutton inquiry (which, if you can believe this, blamed the BBC for his death!!!).
It's possible that it was a suicide--that all this was just too much (although he was a legendary tough guy), or that he was acting to protect his family. But that is not a critical point of the WMD-planting theory. Whether he was driven to suicide, or assassinated, his death was just too damned convenient to the Blairites and the Bushites, and too coincidental with the Plame dates, not to arouse the darkest of suspicions. Further investigation is badly needed. I'm not an investigator, just a citizen and writer.
Being a writer, I noticed a couple of odd things about Judith Miller's obit on David Kelly (NYT, July 21, 2003). The most glaring one is that she fails to disclose her close ties to Kelly. (She wrote a book with him--"Germs"--and was a friend-correspondent.) Another is that in paragraphs 15-16 she has Kelly saying (not in quotes) that the US troops weren't looking hard enough for the WMDs in Iraq. This seems an unlikely thing for Kelly to have said--it doesn't fit his state of mind (that of a whistleblower), but it does serve Miller's interests.
The tone of his emails to her is that he still trusted her, to the day he died (unless he himself was trying to mislead her--trying to figure out who the "dark actors" were--not too likely, I think). And I have no idea, really, if, in truth, it is just a coincidence that Miller was thickly involved with the Plame/BJ outings at the same time that her old colleague, also a WMD expert, was being outed, and fell into despair or was killed.
The WMD-planting theory is just a theory--although a pretty good one--and there may be some other way to connect these dots, or not. It's still possible that the Plame/Kelly events are not connected, except thematically--both governments into serious repression of both internal and external dissent.
But if the theory is more or less correct, we have some heroes of the outing of Bush and Blair and their damnable war who were in far more danger than most people realize, and who acted to save us from a phony, triumphant "find" of WMDs in Iraq, that would have hardened the power of the warmongers and made them unchallengeable: Valerie Plame and her network of agents/contacts, Joseph Wilson, and David Kelly.
We also have some villains who are guilty of a lot more than political punishment of dissent--and a number of pawns in their game--who will, hopefully, be sorted out from each other in the coming months.
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I, too, am very concerned about Syria and Iran. My parsing of the weird letter from Libby to Miller about the "aspens" produced an ominous message about these weapons-planting and other "dirty tricks" capabilities being deeply rooted (still in place), and unaffected by Libby taking the fall for Cheney. He urges Miller "to come back to work--and life" to help propagandize certain stories, and he names them: The Iranian nuke program, biological threats and the Iraqi elections.
It is a difficult message to parse (including who it is really intended for), so, bear that in mind. And I have no inside knowledge. I'm just guessing.
But if I'm right, then we can expect some kind of incident to come, involving WMDs, to justify the incursions into Syria (that began during Katrina) and to widen the war--and perhaps even to justify the Iraq invasion, in retrospect.
But whatever their rotten schemes may be, it is by no means certain that anyone--even those on the right--will believe them any more. And I actually hope that the Republican elite has made some sort of deal to resolve these prosecutions (a Cheney resignation? un-indicted co-conspirator, no jail time; a fresh face put in as VP to be Diebolded into office in '08? --whatever), because I think that we, and the rest of the world, are in great danger from the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal. (--and since Republicans are just into looting us blind, they may not want a holocaust; can't spend your billions on a dead planet). (Read Carl Sagan's "The Cold and the Dark," about the impacts to the planet of even a limited nuclear exchange. Not good.)
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As for putting this theory into a thread, somebody already did. It's at....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5049555And it's just a theory. I hesitate to put it forward in a way that anyone may take it as anything else. But I've commented about it, in various posts on related subjects here at DU, in order to inspire investigation.
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