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- An Arkansas medical examiner has once
again concluded "suicide" in a case where common sense might
determine otherwise.
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- On Nov. 17, Charles Wilbourne Miller,
63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in a shallow pit about
300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge
shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged
in water. Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller
to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent.
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- Only in Arkansas does a suicide victim
use two shots -- not to mention two weapons -- to kill himself.
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- Worse yet, Miller was no ordinary citizen
of Arkansas. He had long served as executive vice president and member
of the board of directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved
in his own software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is
the successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided
the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system
and that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer
"Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission
in America.
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- There has been at least one other high-profile
"suicide" among the inner circle involved with this secretive
project -- Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, who, we now know
attended critical National Security Agency planning meetings on the Clipper
chip project, along with then- Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell,
Attorney General Janet Reno and then-White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum.
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- Just last week, WorldNetDaily columnist
Charles Smith revealed that a newly de-classified FBI document confirmed
that Reno personally appointed Hubbell as the Justice Department's liaison
to the computer chip project. The document, a 1993 letter from FBI Director
William Sessions to Reno, was obtained by Smith under the Freedom of Information
Act. The FBI letter to Reno stated: "During the June 30, 1993, meeting
with the National Security Council staff to discuss the status of the Presidential
Decision and Review Directives concerning key-escrow encryption technology
and telecommunications trends, which was attended by Associate Attorney
General Webster Hubbell, the issue of a recommended solution to the law
enforcement access problem, or the digital telephony issue, was discussed."
The existence of the White House computer system and data base -- known
as WHODB, White House Office Data Base, and containing as many as 200,000
names -- was revealed by Paul Rodriguez in the Washington Times.
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- NSA worked with Systematics, half-owned
by billionaire Jackson Stephens, a major contributor to Bill Clinton's
political campaigns dating back to his Arkansas days and a close associate
of Mochtar and James Riady, the Indonesian billionaires and suspected Chinese
government agents. It was Stephens' effort to get Systematics the job of
handling the data processing for the Washington, D.C., First American Bank
that led to the BCCI takeover of the institution. Hillary Clinton and Foster
represented Systematics in that endeavor. Later Foster became an overseer
of NSA's relationship with Systematics. And later still, he got dead. No
matter what Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says, his death has never
been explained adequately as a suicide.
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- Foster's deep connections to the Whitewater
scandal, the Travelgate scandal, the Filegate scandal and this spying scandal
have never been examined by any of the official probes into his death.
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- How big and how sensitive was Clipper
chip project? According to a 1996 report to Vice President Al Gore by former
CIA Director John Deutch, Reno proposed an all-out federal takeover of
the computer industry. The Justice Department proposed "legislation
that would ... ban the import and domestic manufacture, sale or distribution
of encryption that does not have key recovery," Smith found. Prime
targets for monitoring would be foreign governments, banks, corporations,
and individuals opposing the Clinton administration. The keys were to be
held by "key recovery agents" licensed by the Commerce Department
Key recovery is a government back-door system designed to secretly monitor
computers.
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- Mention all this to most people in the
United States and you will be labeled a "conspiracy theorist."
But one thing is clear from the government documents now available to the
American people: There was a broad conspiracy at the highest levels of
government to profit from a policy inimical to freedom, national security
and civil liberties. Whether the death of Charles Miller has anything to
do with that plan or not, his strange and mysterious demise -- like so
many others in Arkansas and Washington in the last six years -- bears more
scrutiny than it is receiving.
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- A daily radio broadcast adaptation of
Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at http://www.ktkz.com/
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