"Suicide" suspected for Navy Secretary nominee

[SpiralHawk]

DU has another thread on this story in LBN (linked below), but I wanted to start a new thread to bring the "suicide" issue to the forefront.

Specifically, the local TV stations in Albuquerque, NM are reporting this AM that the sheriffs in Roswell, NM are saying that this is a "suicide." But that the "circumstances are still cloudy."

Sniff, sniff. Why is my nose twitching over this story?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php

New Mexico oilman picked by * to be Navy secretary, has died

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/24/obit.mcmillan.ap/index.html

"New Mexico oilman Colin R. McMillan, nominated by President Bush to be Navy secretary, has died, the Pentagon said Thursday."

"McMillan, 67 at the time of his nomination in May, lived in Roswell, New Mexico. He ran Permian Exploration Corp., and was chairman of Bush's New Mexico presidential campaign in 2000."

[El Mariachi]

1. ok so..

My ignorance has stopped me from reading the article as of yet, but where are you going with this?

Why would a Bush murder his own roadies?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Yes, Why? And if it is an authentic suicide, why again?

Something is Massively Fishy here.

[punpirate]

4. It's a reasonable question you ask....

McMillan would get along splendidly with the Bushies. Right-wing, oil & gas, can't imagine there would be something awful surfacing in nomination hearings, since he was previously in the first Bush administration, I believe, and has been reasonably vetted in the last twelve years or so.

If the reports of suicide are plausible in the evidence, I would first suspect despondency over some debilitating terminal illness before I would consider nefarious behavior.

Cheers.

[revcarol]

2. Did he have some hideous secret that would have come out in the hearings?

Golly, gonna have to watch NM TV, again. The network stations are all sooooo awful I've been passing this by, except for forest fires.

[punpirate]

6. This is from KOB, updated in the last half-hour or so...

http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=3142&cat=NMTOPSTORIES

As I suspected, he was not in Roswell, but at his Otero County ranch. Found shot to death, but the family spokesman (mayor of Roswell, Bill Owen) says foul play was not suspected.

[GalleryGod]

12. "Foul Play" is pretty difficult to rise to these days! Ask Lori's folks.

the Dead Joe Scabby intern!
I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE a good conspiracy!:puffpiece:

[MetaTrope]

5. Hey, you don't suppose

He was one of those Texas oilman at the helm of the Navy sub that rammed and sank the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru?

[SoCalDem]

7. CEO of Permian Exploration Corp

Permian Exploration Company:Geophysical Services>PXC:Canada>
(Written for Netscape 2.01). Welcome to Permian Exploration Corporation's
Home Page! In addition to reaching out to new customers ...
www.dfn.com/pxc/pxc1.htm - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

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Providence Technologies, Inc
... of the Management Team include Providence’s President/CEO James C. (Jim) Manatt,
Jr., formerly President/COO, Permian Exploration Corporation and Vice ...
www.provtech.com/ProvidenceNews.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

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Student Loan Marketing Association Board
... Colin Riley McMillan, Chairman Roswell, New Mexico, Chairman and CEO
Permian Exploration Corporation McMillan Production Company, Inc. ...
www.salliemae.com/about/slma_board.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

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CFR WEEKLY WRAPUP
... Colin R. McMillan is chairman and CEO of the Permian Exploration Corporation,
and the current chairman of the board of Sallie Mae. ...
www.aau.edu/publications/Wrapup5.9.03.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

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US Senator Pete V. Domenici
... McMillan, currently chairman of Permian Exploration Corporation in Roswell, previously
served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and ...
domenici.senate.gov/newscenter/record.cfm?id=203663 - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

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... technical documentation. PXC Permian Exploration Corporation - Acquisition
and processing of 2D, 3D seismic surveys. Questa Engineering ...
www.oilfielddirectory.com/geological.html - 50k - Cached - Similar pages

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Navy League
... A petroleum geophysicist, McMillan currently is chairman and chief executive officer
of the Permian Exploration Corporation and affiliated companies; chairman ...
www.navyleague.org/sea_power/jun_03_12.php - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

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president and CEO of Permian Exploration Corporation. ...
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Sanders, Bruin, Coll & Worley, PA Law Firm - Roswell, New Mexico ...
... First Federal Savings Bank GEICO Nadel & Gussman Permian, LLC Farmers Country Markets
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www.sbcw-law.com/clientele/main.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO
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... Keith E. McKamey, Michael A. McMillan, McMillan Ventures, LLC, McMillan Production
Company, William B. Owen and Permian Exploration Corporation ("the Yates ...
www.emnrd.state.nm.us/OCD/Orders/ Hearing/2002/12922.doc - Similar pages

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO
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... Keith E. McKamey, Michael A. McMillan, McMillan Ventures, LLC, McMillan Production
Company, William B. Owen and Permian Exploration Corporation ("the Yates ...
www.emnrd.state.nm.us/OCD/Orders/ Hearing/2002/12922.doc - Similar pages

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... Inc. and Permian Exploration Corporation, both interest owners within
Section 2, appeared at the hearing through legal counsel. ...
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[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. remember this story about documents buried in NM

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/energy/1923856

[punpirate]

10. Story doesn't mention McMillan or any of his...

... companies. That story developed because a subsidiary of Enron, EOTT (now spun off) was simply trying to protect itself from a class-action suit which likely should have been directed at a previous owner of the property and pipeline, Texas-New Mexico Pipeline.

Yes, there's always the possibility of something ugly turning up, but just because he's from NM doesn't mean that he's responsible for every odd occurrence in the state.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. you're right

i brought it up for speculation.

suicide - oil - texas - pipeline - enron - bush crony

[TacticalPeek]

13. hmmm....

wonder if he attended any Cheney energy meetings...

the mist-shrouded peaks of the pentagon seem somewhat dangerous lately.

[rman]

9. 15th characteristic of fascism?

clusters of 'suicides'.

[SpiralHawk]

14. A hot link to the McMillan "suicide" story

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Obit%20McMillan


Maybe his recurring cancer caused him lose hope and pull the trigger?

Navy chief nominee may have killed self
By RICHARD BENKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Oilman Colin McMillan, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as Navy secretary, died at his ranch from an apparent gunshot wound, and investigators said Friday it might have been self-inflicted.

"All indications are it could be suicide, but we're not going to reach that conclusion until the investigation is over," said District Attorney Scot Key of Alamogordo.

McMillan "had a recurrence of cancer," but "everybody thought he was recovered, recuperating quite well," Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said Friday on the Senate floor.