Time: Fri Dec 05 17:34:36 1997 To: electra@texas.net From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: Re: [Fwd: DRUDGE REPORT FINAL 12/2/97] Cc: Bcc: References: Great to hear from you! Did you get the hard copy of "The Federal Zone"? On you point: I figure Clinton has at least 50 bodies buried around the Rose Garden. But, he never promised you a Rose Garden, did he? :) He promised you the most ethical administration this country has ever seen. Duped again, yes indeed!!! ;( /s/ Paul Mitchell, Candidate for Congress http://supremelaw.com At 06:16 PM 12/5/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hello Paul: > >I'm *finally* back online! >Have you seen this recent Drudge article? >We'll call over the week end. > >Cheers, >Electra > by mail4.texas.net (8.8.7/SMI 4.1) with ESMTP > id AAA21014; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:36:16 -0600 (CST) >Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:36:16 -0600 (CST) > (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA6579; > Wed, 3 Dec 1997 06:35:14 +0000 >To: DRUDGE@drudgereport.com >From: DRUDGE REPORT <drudge@drudgereport.com> >Subject: DRUDGE REPORT FINAL 12/2/97 > >XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT FINAL XXXXX TUES DEC 02 1997 22:45 EST XXXXX > >AIR FORCE LT. COLONEL: EVIDENCE RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS IN RON BROWN DEATH > >Newspaper Report Starts Commotion > >A US Air Force Lt. Colonel has told investigative reporter Chris Ruddy in >Wednesday's PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW: Secretary Ron Brown was found with an >"apparent gunshot wound" to his head. > >The Ruddy heartstopper hit the internet harder than just been about anything >in its history late Tuesday night. > >In Ruddy's report: According to Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell, a doctor and >deputy Armed Forces medical examiner with the Armed Forces Institute of >Pathology, and once member of the Brown plane crash investigation, officials >who examined Brown's body at Dover Air Force base shortly after the April 3, >1996 Croatia crash discovered "essentially... Brown had a .45 inch inwardly >beveling circular hole in the top of head, which is... the description of a >.45-caliber gunshot wound." > >The wound was documented, photographed, and X-rayed, in a medical >examination at Dover Air Force base, writes Ruddy. > >The TRIBUNE-REVIEW is in possession of numerous crash, medical examination >and other photos that purport to show Brown, the DRUDGE REPORT can confirm. >One photo, to be published in the paper, shows a hole consistent with a .45 >caliber gunshot wound, it will be alleged. > >Cogswell claims that one photo-X-ray even shows a possible "lead snowstorm" >of metal fragments in Brown's head. > >Cogswell tells Ruddy, on the record, for full attribution, that >incriminating X-rays were destroyed shortly after the examination of Brown, >disappearing from the case file. > >Ruddy backs up Cogswell's claims with other sources present at Dover, as >well as independent experts who have examined photos of the body and photos >of the X-rays. > >"Even if you safely assumed accidental plane crash, when you got something >that appears to be a homicide, that should bring everything to a screeching >halt," Cogswell said, arguing that the finding of the apparent gunshot >should have triggered the Presidential Assassination Statute -- which covers >Cabinet members like Brown -- and immediately prompted an autopsy. Ruddy >reveals in his detail-drenched story that no autopsy was conducted on Brown. > >Talk of Ruddy holding a press conference in Washington over the next week >exploring evidence in his possession. > >Overnight Internet reaction to Ruddy's story has been swift. One posting on >a newsgroup charged: "I see. So, after 4 years the Vince Foster story has >finally lost steam even with the crazies, and now we've moved on to Ron >Brown? Cute! That's some fancy sidesteppin' folks!" > >"Scaife is at it again," wrote another. > > > X X X X X > >PARAMOUNT ANGRY AT TIME'S TITANIC HIT > >"The regretful verdict here: Dead in the water," writes fool Richard >Corliss in a review of TITANIC in this week's TIME [12/8] -- a review that >has now relation to anything this report saw at a screen of the film a few >weeks back, and a review that caused sparks behind the scenes for its >domestic distributor PARAMOUNT. > >The way the story is being told in studio circles, Corliss' review in this >week's TIME "violated" an agreement with TIME had with PARAMOUNT not to run >a review of the epic prior to December 15 -- the week of the film's opening. > >In the review, Corliss not only trashes TITANIC -- a film so effective it >has brought hard boiled executives to tears at multiple industry screenings, >many predicting Oscar -- but he does it in a slight 6 paragraph >shiv-between-the ribs. > >TITANIC producers and PARAMOUNT big shots saw red after reading the first >national print review of the most expensive movie ever made. > >Director James Cameron was FAXed the review on Sunday, according to a close >associate, and was somewhere between perplexed and dumbfounded. > >"Fine, Jim -- build the damned ship, sink the damned ship," writes Corliss >in his review: "Down, Down to a Watery Grave." > >Quick, send in the lifeboats! > >All day on Monday, PARAMOUNT pr executives worked the phones to "friends of >TITANIC" -- reportedly Gleiberman at ENTERTAINMENT LASTWEEKLY, >Siskel-and-Ebert, others -- hoping to get a counter-balancing view to >Corliss' knife-job. > >The concern at the studio: now that TIME has broken the review-date >agreement, everyone else will rush their's into print. > >The impact of Corliss' review -- the first critical response to the film out >of the New York media machine -- is not to be underestimated. > >"There is no love, no love whatsoever, between TIME WARNER and VIACOM's >Sumner Redstone," a well-placed insider explained Tuesday. "Blood has >clearly been drawn, and tempers are running very, very high." > >The most expensive film on record sets sail in a few weeks... > > >_____________________________________________________ >Filed by Matt Drudge >The REPORT is issued when circumstances warrant >http://www.drudgereport.com for breaks >AOL KEYWORD: DRUDGE >(c)DRUDGE REPORT 1997 >Not for reproduction without permission of the author > > >
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