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Sept. 8, 2007 -- Gillmor death ruled "accident"
Sometimes, Hollywood is more attuned to Washington than the corporate media in this town. On Sept. 5, Ohio Republican Representative Paul Gillmor was found dead at the foot of the stairs in his Arlington, Virginia townhouse. Police, at first, and without an autopsy, said Gillmor likely died from a heart attack.
In the film Enemy of the State, Jason Robards played fictional Representative Phillip Hammersley, who is opposed to a Patriot Act-like bill to require massive telecommunications surveillance throughout the United States. Hammersley is confronted by government agents next to the Chesapeake Bay. Hammersley is given a deadly injection and prescription pills are scattered on the floor of his car. Hammersley and his car are then pushed into the bay. The news reports then claim that Hammersley tragically committed suicide. For Washington DC, that is art imitating life.
Now, the Virginia Department of Health, on behalf of the Virginia Medical Examiner's office (not Arlington County, which has its own medical examiner), is claiming that Gillmore died from "blunt force head and neck trauma" consistent with a fall down the steps. Police have ruled out foul play. However, final Virginia Medical Examiner laboratory tests have not been completed.
The Washington media has, in the past, paid scant attention to politically-connected suspicious deaths. Reporters and editors are content with believing the police and other local government officials when it comes to the causes of death.
As with past suspicious deaths in the DC Metro region, there is every reason not to oblige the authorities by blindly accepting their version of Gillmor's death.
Last summer, close Dick Cheney adviser and past chief of the US Export-Import Bank Phil Merrill was found in the Chesapeake Bay after what was called a "sailing accident." However, Merrill's body was found with a gunshot wound and anchor chain tied around his legs. The police conclusion: suicide.
Bush brother Marvin Bush's domestic assistant Bertha Champagne was found crushed to death by her own driver-less vehicle in the driveway in front of Marvin Bush's home in Fairfax County, just outside Alexandria. Bush was the only other person, in addition to the decedent, listed on the police report. The report also mentioned that Champagne was in possession of a videotape of her and President Bush. Police conclusion: a terrible accident.
In November 2003, within a few weeks of each others "suicides" and within a few blocks of each "suicide" site, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research and top Iraqi analyst John J. Kokal and former CIA official and Jimmy Carter administration intelligence staffer Dr. Gus Weiss, both of whom were opposed to the invasion of Iraq, supposedly jumped to their deaths from a secured roof at the Department of State and a balcony at the Watergate complex, respectively. Police conclusions: both were suicides.
In 2000, this editor wrote, "John Millis, the late Executive Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) who allegedly committed suicide on June 4, 2000, died a day after he forced the CIA to release a controversial report dealing with cocaine trafficking. Police in [city of] Fairfax, Virginia still refuse to reveal the contents of a suicide note allegedly written by Millis . . . there are clearly many unanswered questions involving Goss and the HPSCI. For example, Goss press secretary Jennifer Millerwise abruptly resigned her position a few weeks after Millis death and was not available for interviews. Fairfax police refused to release the contents of Millis suicide note and the Fairfax County coroner autopsy report. The Director of Emergency Services for Fairfax County said he was never informed that Millis' body had been transported into his jurisdiction, a violation of his agency procedures. Interestingly, Millerwise would later surface as Vice President Cheney press spokesperson."
Official conclusion: Millis' death was a suicide.
Then there was the determination that President Clinton's deputy counsel Vince Foster committed suicide in 1993 at Fort Marcy Park off of the George Washington Parkway near CIA headquarters. Although carpet fibers were found on Foster's clothing, indicating his body had been moved there, Park Police concluded that Foster shot himself in Fort Marcy Park.
Top CIA officials John Paisley and William Colby died of "accidents" in the Chesapeake Bay. Like Merrill, Paisley, who was due to provide expert testimony on President Kennedy's assassination to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978, was found with anchor chains around his body. In 1996, Colby got up from his dinner table and decided to go for a canoe ride when he had his "accident." Colby was due to provide assistance to Nebraska Republican State Senator John DeCamp, a Vietnam war colleague, on DeCamp's investigation of a major child prostitution ring with links into the George H. W. Bush White House.
In Washington, "accidents" and "suicides" are convenient excuses, but not necessarily truthful conclusions. After all, as the nexus for Watergate, Iran-Contra, CIA Leakgate, and other criminal conspiracies, the Washington smoking gun is sometimes just that -- the smoking gun.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070908He was another gay bashing fanatic after all.
http://www.queerty.com/news/rep-paul-gillmor-dead-at-68-20070905/ 
