ADM Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, May 16, 1996: Pt. 1

[There is a graduate level post and it has a pre-requisite. If you haven't read my comment "First you have to admit you're a wingnut," do so. Then come back and read this.]

This is the first of a four post conspiracy theory concerning the alleged suicide of ADM Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, who died from at least one allegedly self-inflicted gun shot wound to the chest.

I've divided the post into four separate posts because of the length of it. And I've posted it in reverse order because the blog puts the newest posts last. If you'd like to read it all in one shot, feel free to select the Google hyperlink or head on over to those enterprising folk at DarkConspiracy.com who have been nice enough to archive an older version of this post.

Basics: Do I personally believe that ADM Boorda committed suicide? Good question. I really don't know how to answer that. There are not enough facts in evidence for me to answer that question with any degree of certainty. And that lack of public evidence is at the crux of the problem.

From the very beginning there was a beltway cover-up of this incident. Accusations were laid, blame was placed, misdirection was the rule of the day. The Navy claims it has the information of the death, but no one else knows. We are supposed to trust the Navy and officials of the Clinton administration. The name of the admiral's driver was never released (he allegedly found the body), nor were the names of the medics, the District of Columbia police involved, etc. Because the names were never released, these witnesses were never interviewed by independent third parties. The Navy, for months after the facts, wouldn't even admit an autopsy was ever conducted. The autopsy results were never released. There were early reports that two shots had been fired into the admiral's chest. The suicide notes were never released. The public is supposed to believe what the Navy claims was the complete and entire context of the notes.

In academia, all research must be corroborated independently and submitted to a board of review before reviewers arrive at a finding of fact. The military has boards like these as well, Boards of Inquiry. These types of independent third-party boards were never convened. You can't corroborate information you've never seen. And that gives, at the very least, an implication of investigational impropriety and leaves open the door for evidence tampering by "team players" in the Clinton administration.

Why would the disclosure of the information contained within the alleged suicide notes be important? As reported by The Virginian-Pilot: (T)elevision cameras caught (former President William) Clinton recoiling in shock as an aide handed him a note about the shooting. Reading the note, the president suddenly paled, his shoulders slumped and he grimaced.

Other than the fact that a human being died, there is a greater concern here. ADM Boorda, at the time of his death, was the highest ranking sailor in the U.S. Navy, the strongest navy in the free world. He served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and knew the Navy's and the defense department's most closely guarded defense secrets and strategies.

There were many, many individual posts concerning ADM Boorda's death at the time of his death but those posts, which had been archived on Deja News, are no long available. I saved copies of my posts in Free Agent, and this compilation was derived from them, warts and all. It's certainly not the clearest piece of writing I've ever done, far from it. And it contains faulty assumptions that time disproved, and that disproval is included as well. But at least I'm asking the questions the mainstream media won't. And if you don't ask, you'll never receive an answer.

Call me a flake if you wish but the weird part about it is little "news" buzzer in my brain keeps telling me not to drop this. That buzzer worked real well when I was a reporter. It would ring like a 5-alarm fire bell when I was on to something. James Stewart's character felt it in "Call Northside 777." So it's not unique, just a trait of certain professions.

Every year around the anniversary date of ADM Boorda's death, I post the information on the usenet hoping someone looks at it and funds an investigation into a cold case. The problem is, those with money don't want to look. It was a bad time for the Navy and the press and few want to open old wounds, even if a putrefaction exists. [What can I say -- I'm a registered EMT and my late mother was a nurse. Expect more medical buzz words in the blog. It's not meant to parade my knowledge but expand your vocabulary.]

Part 1 of 4.
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This is a repost. Eight years later and the truth has yet to be reported. No news organization marked the anniversary of the death with so much as a brief. [Hardly surprising though from media that gave short shrift to the brutal and torturous murder of Nicholas Berg.]

Why the repost? With apologies to Dashiell Hammett:

"When a fellow sailor is killed, a sailor's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was a sailor and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we were in the Navy. And he was ex-enlisted and so was I. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every sailor everywhere."

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On 1998/12/04, jgarc...@nospam.elp.rr.com wrote:

>I was wondering if anyone has any information or theories about
>Admiral Jeremy Boorda's suicide in May 1996.

This is a long post and summarizes several posts I made at the time concerning the alleged suicide. It includes a few after-the-fact news reports. Also, at the end of this post is a report on an exclusive telephone interview I conducted with Charles Thompson, the freelance producer for "60 Minutes" who passed the information about pentagon officials wearing ribbons to which they were not entitled to National Security News Service.
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Enterprise Reporting is dead: the Admiral Boorda cover-up remains
unchallenged

Hello:

I'm an ex-4th Estater (Fairchild, AP, UPI, SDX/SPJ), ex-Navy enlisted and ex-USNA student (2 years). Indeed, it is because of this rare background knowledge and my need to know the truth on this, I have been following and tracking down everything I can on Adm Boorda's alleged suicide. I didn't know Boorda or even much about him. But he was an ex-white hat and so was I. And it really appears to me that his death at the very least is being dismissed if not totally swept under the rug.

The following was obtained from John McCaslin's column in the weekly edition of the Washington Times:
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June 3, 1996 World Wide Web Weekly edition - from "Inside the Beltway"

Weary either way

A week before he committed suicide on May 16, Navy Adm. Jeremy Michael Boorda was clearly weary of the ways of Washington and looked forward to leaving the heat of the kitchen.

This from two men, retired Adm. Bobby Ray Inman and Florida businessman J. David Eller. They spoke with the chief of naval operations during a reception at a Pensacola, Fla., naval museum.

But the two men disagree on the target of Adm. Boorda's frustration. Adm. Inman, a former CIA chief, said his friend complained about Washington generally.

But Mr. Eller said Adm. Boorda directly blamed the White House and ticked off the years, months and days he had left in office.

"Boorda told him [Adm. Inman] he had had a lot of differences with the White House," Mr. Eller recalled, quoting Adm. Boorda as saying: "They're really not interested in the military."

Mr. Eller said that, at one point, Adm. Inman pointed his finger at Adm. Boorda and admonished him against resigning.

Adm. Inman, in a telephone interview, denied this part of the story from Mr. Eller, a Republican who ferried former President George Bush to the museum event in his corporate jet.

Said Mr. Eller: "I know what I heard."

Copyright 1996 News World Communications, Inc.
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This is important news. I've been waiting but the wire services haven't picked up on this story and it's like everyone's got their mouth zipped on this. What's going on? The answer, I believe, is that enterprise reporting is dead.

Moreover, The Associated Press, which obtained information from an anonymous source on the day of the alleged suicide that the suicide notes contained information that Adm Boorda was worried about a media controversy surrounding the "Vs," no longer attributes that information. Check the latest articles - except for the latest piece by John Diamond, it's included as news fact when the notes have yet to be released! Repeat a lie long enough and it's accepted fact, right?

Follows are some questions I've yet to see answered in the various news reports:

1.) None of the news reports have included interviews with the admiral's driver or those who found the body. Why not?

2.) Has there been an autopsy of the body? What was the autopsy report - did they check for the existence of depressants in his system that may have exacerbated a previous condition? If there was no autopsy, why not? The man was CNO, highest ranking sailor in the United States, a confidant of the Clintons. (Note: A check of the Raleigh area AP wire from a two weeks ago will verify that a Sgt. died after a fitness test - the Army will be performing an autopsy on the body. An E-5 dies, and the military wants to know why. An O-10 allegedly commits suicide by shooting himself - perhaps twice - in the chest and not the head, the highest ranking sailor in the country, and there's apparently no call for an autopsy.)

3.) The suicide notes - which contain Adm Boorda's final message to his troops and his family - weren't released though in any other situation they would've been released already. Why haven't they been released? Concern for the family is plausible, but Adm Boorda was a public figure and the public interest is overriding in this instance. As the notes are evidence in a criminal investigation (suicide is a crime), they are public domain and must be released immediately upon request. The only reason investigators could use to prevent them from being released is "national security."

4.) NSNS hasn't been quizzed on who passed it the leak to check on Boorda's medals. What was the agenda of the leaker? Embarass Adm Boorda obviously - but why? According to news reports, NSNS claims it had the information on Adm Boorda's medals for a year but needed photographic proof of Adm Boorda wearing the medals. All of a sudden, "Defense Week" runs a photo of Adm Boorda that is more than a year old showing that he's wearing the medals (he had stopped wearing the "Vs" more than a year ago). NSNS says it has its photographic proof after a year of painstaking digging and they pass the info to Newsweek and ABC. Excuse me ... NSNS filed FOIAs to get Adm Boorda's military records and *didn't* think to start diving around in the archives to find an old photo of Adm Boorda to back up their great miraculous find?????? NOT!!!! NSNS was someone's pawns and so too became Newsweek and ABC. As did just about every other news organization in the country IMHO.

5.) Anyone who is being considered for the job of CNO - or any other job of that magnitude - is investigated throughly. Lie detector tests, background screening, etc. Yet, investigations that are known to uncover even the minutest of details - employment of illegal aliens as maids 30 years ago, smoking of one joint in college - did not uncover the apparent discrepancy in the records - and the records were there all the time. Why not?

6.) If Adm Boorda wanted to make an editorial comment - to Clinton and to those who were giving him orders, to the press, to the public, to the Navy - he made it. A portion of the Navy officer corps blaims Adm Boorda for his orders that resulted in the dismissal of some fine Naval officers for reasons having to do with "political correctness" - how do *we* know that Clinton didn't order him to dismiss those officers and that he didn't fight it tooth and nail? Anyone in the press in the oval office everytime Adm Boorda set foot in it?

FACT: Clinton was his CINC.

FACT: If Clinton disagreed with Adm Boorda's actions, Adm Boorda would've been fired on the spot. Ask any military officer, and they will *all* tell you they carried out an order they vehemently disagreed with because it *was* an order.

7.) PURE SPECULATION: If Adm Boorda did, in fact commit suicide, maybe the shame Adm Boorda felt was *not* the controversy of the medals but perhaps he felt that he didn't fight against those WH orders hard enough or that he didn't resign rather than carry out those orders. Maybe it wasn't shame but a significantly serious editorial comment. Maybe it was his way of telling Clinton: "NO MORE!" Maybe that's what's in the suicide notes the White House, the DOD and the Navy don't want released. Who's to say that ADM Boorda didn't standfast and say no on some latest order from Clinton and the result was the leak to the press from the White House about the question of the "Vs?" Don't you think that investigators examining Adm Boorda's record prior to his being appointed CNO might have discovered that bureaucratic discrepancy in his records and that it might just kept have been kept as control ammunition to ensure Adm Boorda danced to Clinton's tune? Adm Boorda was too well respected by the fleet enlisted - your "Letters to the Editor" section following the alleged suicide will tell you that. Clinton couldn't easily fire him - especially in an election year - so if he wanted to get rid of him, his only political choice would be to disgrace him in front of his troops. And as I've noted before, why haven't the suicide notes been released yet? Things like that are usually released pretty soon after the fact unless there's a "national security" question involved, e.g. mud on Clinton? The suicide notes reportedly were written the day before the suicide, *before* the phone call from Newsweek. (TIME Magazine reported this.)

Adm Boorda died for a reason, and I seriously doubt the "Vs" were the reason. And I don't think it was a botched inside Navy hatchet job either.

Something's dreadfully wrong here. If you look at all the information presented, your news nose *has* to be twitching as much as mine on this.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark and it appears to me the press has collectively backed off and cynically written off the man's death as another Washington occurrence.

Next post: ADM Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, May 16, 1996: Pt. 2