ADM Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, May 16, 1996: Pt. 3

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Re: Enterprise Reporting is dead: the Admiral Boorda cover-up remains unchallenged

Did you hear the news? On 19 Jun 96 09:14:52 MDT, our ether buddy
bad...@cc.usu.edu (Roger L. Perkins) spaketh thusly:

:)the same questions as you have posed. For example... just how do you shoot
:)yourself twice in the chest? I mean, you can do it if you are really
:)interested in dying or if the gun goes off twice due to a muscle twitch or
:)something. But I'd like to know. And the question about the letters bothers
:)me too.

The "two shot" theory is speculation from these usenet groups. There have been no confirmed reports in the press that there were "two shots," at least as far as I've determined. The first post on this, I believe, was made by Dwayne Allen Day who noted on 17 May 1996:

>Boorda is told of meeting, leaves work and goes home abruptly--driving
>himself. His official driver, worried that something is wrong, follows
>him home. At the time that the driver pulls up to the admiral's
>residence, shots are heard from the house.
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I seem to recall that I also read "shots" in one of the press reports, but I'll have to go back and verify that. I can't say for sure if it was there or if it was, if wasn't a typo - which happens. I'll let you know. There's been of lot of articles, mostly repeating the same anonymously sourced allegations re: "Vs" and very little enterprise reporting.

There *have* been reports in the press that at least a portion of at least one of the suicide notes was written the day before the suicide, *before* the call from the Newsweek reporters, which raises *significant* questions about the WH/DOD/Navy's "anonymous source" claim about the "Vs" being the prime reason stated for the alleged suicide in the notes.

Without the WH/DOD/Navy admitting there was an autopsy, much less making it available to the public, this question about the "two shots" will remain. The press has not been granted access to the notes from the preliminary investigation, or if it has, it has not reported its findings, only what the WH/DOD/Navy has spoonfed it. Normally - or at least when I was working in the press - the press would report that access to the preliminary reports was denied, but I haven't seen even that.

I, with you, want the truth. And there aren't just two of us left in the country either, no matter what Dwayne Nutting will try to tell you.

(Dwayne's made a post previously where he, as a claimed "LDO mustang" took umbrage that the press was referring to Adm Boorda as a "mustang.")

There's a lot of off-usenet support mail I've received on the post who stand with you in wanting to know the truth. Obviously Dwayne has succeeded in scaring some folk away from publicly commenting on this subject, for whatever reason he has to do that. But the support is there nonetheless.

:)The point is this whas the CNO, for Christ sake! I want to know just exactly
:)what happened. Now, whether this is a cover up or whether the media just
:)doesn't care about another military guy dying I don't know. But I will be
:)watching he press to see what they do.

As you note: the CNO has access to the most *closely* kept Naval defense secrets and strategies. He commits suicide and the White House/DOD/Navy slam the door shut on the release of pertinent information relating to that death. Vince Foster was a lawyer in the White House - Adm Boorda knew *every* Navy and probably most other Defense secrets and strategies.

:)Not seeing a conspiracy or black helos, but there is something fishy here.
:)What is the questions.
:)Roger
:)AIRBORNE!

My greatest fear is that one day one of the conspiracy theorists will be right.

But, alas, I've already realized that fear: POWs alive in Korea; LSD tests and atomic tests on unknowing Airborne Division soldiers; yellow rain, the chemical warfare against the H'mong in Laos; Agent Orange; the Scorpion Ops commandoes written off as dead to save a budget buck; the chemical testing deaths of many Korean War POWs; the cover-up on the U.S.S. Iowa; Filegate; My Lai; Gulf War Syndrome; FBI wiretapping of the press phones during the '60s; Nixon's Dirty Tricks Campaign; etc.

[Mac note: One of my mentors was one of those reporters whose telephone was tapped. He worked for the Associated Press and had been having conversations with members of the Black Panther Party.]

The only report I could find on the usenet from someone who claimed to have known Adm Boorda was from Will D. O'Neil from a post 1 June 1996 in sci.military.naval:

>Woody has it right. I knew ADM Mike Boorda (as a
>professional acquaintance) for the last five years of his
>life, and I know dozens of people who were close to him in
>the Navy. I very frequently had occasion to discuss his
>directions and decisions with senior officers, so I heard
>him referred to several times a day (and still do). I NEVER
>heard anyone call him as anything but "ADM Boorda," "the
>CNO," (or, "the CinC," when he was CINCUSNAVEUR) or, in
>intimate contexts, "Mike Boorda."
>I also should say that although everyone was objectively
>aware that ADM Boorda was a short man, no one was likely to
>be thinking about it when with him: his personality was that
>dynamic and powerful. No one who knew him will ever forget
>him.
>Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but mine is that
>Mike Boorda's death was a tragedy far beyond the ordinary,
>and not just for his family and close friends. I've known
>other suicides, but none which left more painful puzzles.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Will O'Neil

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Re: Enterprise Reporting is dead: the Admiral Boorda cover-up remains unchallenged

Did you hear the news? On Sat, 15 Jun 1996 18:41:05 GMT, I wrote:

:)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?

I had to quote myself on this one to provide background.

First, let me say UPFRONT AND OUT LOUD this is pure speculation and a hunch. Okay, so stand by:

I've just had a thought - if the WH keeps innuendo files on everyone close to the WH, then it *had* to have Adm Boorda's file.

The press reports are that the stories have been circling D.C. for quite some time that senior Pentagon officials wore ribbons they were not entitled to wear. I would expect that this is *just* the type of rumor that might land in Adm Boorda's FBI innuendo file.

Q: Who had access to this file?

A: WH/Clinton/Livingston/Marceca and apparently a zillion other Clintonistas - no security.

IF, the rumor was in the file,

IF, Adm Boorda drew a line in the sand,

IF, the WH wanted him to keep toeing the Clinton line,

What might they do with the innuendo file information on the ribbon?

Leak it to the press as a warning not to rock the boat? Trento of NSNS says the info on the "Vs" came from a "Charles Thompson" a producer at "60 Minutes" who had since left that organization. Thompson has yet to be interviewed by the press on where the info came from, not that he divulge it anyway.

BUT, put 2 and 2 together ...

Rumor+FBI innuendo file+WH+Boorda taking a stand=LEAK?

That's *if* Adm Boorda took a stand on some latest Clinton order and said "NO!" ... and I feel in my heart he did. Was the order the firing of Adm "Snuffy" Smith, NATO commander in Bosnia? Adm Smith is highly respected in the Navy. The announcement of his firing occurred just weeks after Adm Boorda's death - coincidence?

The Clinton plan wasn't working - the scandals showed it over and over again. Change was too fast and too radical and the harassment, sex, accidents, cheating scandals were saying that! It was *his* Navy, it was over 200 proud years old and Clinton/Shroeder were killing it. Almost like a father deciding he needed to protect his cubs - "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or of the one."

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Navy Report Withholds Suicide Notes
By Susanne M. Schafer, Associated Press, 11/02/96; 01:14

WASHINGTON (AP) - The public version of an official report on the suicide of Adm. Jeremy "Mike" Boorda lacks two messages the Navy's top officer wrote shortly before he took his life.

Boorda, the chief of naval operations, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, said the inch-thick report compiled by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

But the document, released Friday under the Freedom of Information Act, does not give a motive for the admiral's act, although there were reports he was troubled by questions about combat decorations he wore.

Nor does it provide the text of messages found side-by-side on a desk in the study of Boorda's home after his death May 16.

One was addressed to Boorda's wife, Bettie. The other was a two-part note addressed to the Navy's chief information officer, Rear Adm. Kendell Pease, with a sub-section titled ``To My Sailors.''

Many other items in the report also are blacked out, such as the contents of the autopsy report, as well as the names and identities of any individual interviewed by investigators.

It was a Navy Department decision not to release the content of the notes, the service said. Exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act say such records may be withheld, for example, if they ``constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy'' or could ``endanger the life or physical safety of any individual,'' a spokesman said.

Boorda shot himself shortly before he was to have been interviewed by Newsweek magazine about whether he was entitled to wear combat decorations for valor during the Vietnam War.

Shortly after Boorda's death, The New York Times reported that the notes suggested the admiral had been driven to take his life by fear that the reputation of the Navy, already battered by a series of scandals, would be further harmed by the disclosures about his medals.

Pease was with the admiral a little more than an hour before the shooting, and had scheduled the meeting between Boorda and Newsweek reporters.

Boorda, according to several people interviewed for the report, had not acted upset or distraught when discussing the medals.

``We'll just tell them the truth,'' several quoted him as saying.

Copyright 1996 Associated Press

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