Justice for Ron Brown

What I can't figure out is why the people who liked him when he was alive have so little interest in seeking justice for him now that he's gone.

Nearly 50 years after the murder of a 14-year-old black boy, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, there's a national outcry to identify his killers. And that's as it should be.

Thugs beat him, shot him, and tossed his mutilated body into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. Then a jury deliberated 67 minutes before acquitting those accused of his murder.

Yet, no one has ever even stood accused of killing Ron Brown, the former secretary of commerce and head of the Democratic National Committee – despite compelling evidence presented in a new book by Jack Cashill, "Ron Brown's Body."

At the very least, the first real investigation of Ron Brown's death needs to be conducted. The case needs to be reopened. There is no doubt at all that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology obstructed justice in its brief examination of the cause of Brown's death.

Jack Cashill is the first reporter to read the 22-volume report and to find and examine Brown's death certificate. His book also benefits greatly from the complete cooperation of Brown's confidante Nolanda Hill and the U.S. Navy forensic photographer, Kathleen Janoski. Here is what we know for sure about Ron Brown's last days:

To protect his son Michael from prison, Ron Brown threatened to expose the White House's yet unrevealed Asian fund-raising scheme, in which Brown played a major role.

Just weeks before his death, Brown started going to church for the first time in his life. He was scared for his life and that of his confidante Hill.

The Croatian government insisted on a Dubrovnik stop an unprecedented 36 hours before Brown's scheduled landing.

The Air Force called Brown's pilot's nearly two-mile deviation into a Croatian hillside "inexplicable." No aircraft had ever drifted inland before at that airport. The AWACS data suggests sabotage of the ground-based navigation system, a line of inquiry that the Air Force was not allowed to pursue.

For the first time ever on friendly soil, the White House ordered the Air Force to skip the "safety" phase of the investigation and move directly to the "accident" phase. There would be no consideration other than accident, even though this airport was near the Bosnian border and in a potential hot-fire zone.

Three days after the crash and two days before his scheduled interview by the Air Force, the Croatian responsible for the airport's navigation system was found with a bullet hole in his chest.

A day later, every pathologist who viewed Brown's body concluded that his head wound, at the very least, looked like a bullet hole. In a decision that reached the White House, there would be no autopsy. The Brown family was not informed. Nor was there any forensic testing or a search for an exit wound.

The head x-rays, that showed a possible "lead snowstorm" were destroyed. Officially, they were lost.

The three Armed Forces pathologists and the forensic photographer who blew the whistle on this case had their careers destroyed.

In silencing these dissidents, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology brass assured the public that Brown died of "multiple blunt force injuries" like the others. The death certificate says otherwise. It notes that Brown died of "blunt force injuries to the head." He was the only one of the 35 victims to have a reported head wound.

The Croatian neo-fascist strongman, Franjo Tudjman, who had feared a trip to the Hague as a war criminal, ended up a week after the election at the Walter Reed Army Hospital to have his cancer treated.

His son, Miroslav, investigated the death of the navigation chief and ruled it a suicide.

If this were not enough, Brown had gone to Croatia to broker a sweetheart deal between Tudjman and the Enron Corporation. The Enron execs took their own plane. All criminal charges against Michael Brown were dropped save for a campaign violation wrist slap.

Today, incredibly, he is vice chairman of finance for the Democratic National Committee. To keep Nolanda Hill quiet, the Clinton Justice Department indicted and incarcerated her on tax charges.

Without an autopsy or a serious inquiry into the plane crash, there will be no closure on Ron Brown's death.

Bush doesn't need to do a thing. The steady drip, drip drip of Clinton era cover-ups is beginning to make waves...Ron Brown's case coming back to life via Cashill, OKC bombing questions are being raised in regard to Iraq by Jayna Davis and Laurie Mylorie and last but not least:

04/19/04 - The Federal Election Commission has opened a formal probe into a star-studded Aug. 12, 2000 Hollywood fundraiser for then-first lady Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, Fox News Channel reported on Sunday. And some say the development is at least partly responsible for Sen. Clinton's claim that she's not interested in joining John Kerry's presidential ticket.
The allegations themselves are not new: Two of the event's organizers, Hollywood producer Peter Paul and charity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, have detailed a series of transactions undertaken in conjunction with Hillary's campaign that could violate FEC regulations, with Paul charging that the campaign failed to report nearly $2 million he spent producing the event.
But months before Paul was returned to the U.S. to stand trial in the stock case, Hollywood fundraiser Aaron Tonken began cooperating with federal probers. Tonken has said that he's a star witness against the Clintons in a federal grand jury probe in New York into Mr. Clinton's Marc Rich pardon - and has been cooperating with the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who's probing his fundraising activities.
FEC Heat Hurts Hillary's VP Chances

Background:

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign.
"The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week.
FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu
The Bush administration has quietly done an about-face on allegations that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton broke campaign finance laws in 2000 - with the Justice Department preparing to extradite one-time Clinton fund-raiser Peter Paul to the U.S. as part of a plea deal for his testimony. The sudden action on Paul's case comes just weeks after reports surfaced that former Hollywood fund-raiser Aaron Tonken has supplied damaging testimony about Hillary Clinton's fund-raising practices.
"I'm a star witness against President and Mrs. Clinton," Tonken claimed in a recent report on his case in Vanity Fair magazine, explaining that prosecutors wanted his testimony about" "fundraising activities that I've done on behalf of the Clintons." The exact nature of Tonken's allegations against Sen. Clinton remains secret, the magazine said. But the celebrity moneyman is known to have been involved in the August 2000 fund raiser that is at the heart of Peter Paul's allegations.
The End of Hillary Clinton
Peter F. Paul, the flamboyant Hollywood entrepreneur who says Hillary Rodham Clinton has hidden almost $2 million of in-kind contributions he made to her campaign in 2000, is back from Brazil and promising to raise a ruckus about the New York senator as he fights bizarre securities and bank-fraud charges on which he's been indicted. Aaron Tonken, a political operative in Hollywood and a former protégé of Paul under indictment for a variety of alleged sharp deals with the rich and famous, also is promising to tell everything he knows about behind-the-scenes shenanigans of Clinton and many others.
Clintons' Fall Guy May Turn the Tables (Peter Paul)
Mr. Paul has substantial, documentary evidence detailing his close relationship with the Clintons and his funding of the Hollywood tribute, including cancelled checks, hand-written thank you notes from the Clintons, and photographs. Also named in the complaint is Clinton fundraiser David Rosen, Clinton friend James Levin, and Hollywood celebrity fundraiser Aaron Tonken, who currently is under criminal investigation for his role in other Hollywood fundraisers. As a result of Mr. Paul’s disclosures, federal authorities have launched an investigation into the Clintons and other matters. Mr. Paul, who is facing alleged (and related) stock and bank fraud charges, remains eager to cooperate with federal authorities.
Clinton Whistleblower Peter F. Paul Sues Bill and Hillary Clinton for Fraud, Conspiracy, Unjust Enrichment

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