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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

January 11, 2006 -- WMR has been asked by readers for further details on the tragic beating death on the evening of January 6 of recently-retired New York Times Washington editor David Rosenbaum. At this time, there are no further details other than what have been reported in the major media.

While this editor did not know Rosenbaum, others who did have told me he was a sharp investigator and an extremely nice person. Heartfelt sympathies go out to his family during this terrible time. Rosenbaum extensively covered the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals.

There are some uncomfortable aspects to this case. One is why it took 22 minutes for an ambulance to reach the crime scene in a quiet and crime-free part of northwest Washington. Emergency services gave their response a "Bravo" rating, meaning they considered Rosenbaum's injuries to be less than "Charlie" or "Delta," serious and life-threatening, respectively.

While this case on the surface, may, in fact, have been a case of a brutal robbery resulting in a fatality, it is worth mentioning that DC has, since 2000, been plagued with strange deaths of people involved in intelligence matters such as John Millis (suicide), John Kokal (suicide), Dr. Gus Weiss (suicide), as well as the very strange death of Marvin Bush's employee Bertha Champagne (freak accident). According to State Department and NSA sources respectively, there were no public reports on the suicide last year of a woman named Maureen who worked for the department's important Near East/Asia Press and Public Diplomacy branch and at least one suicide at NSA that prompted then-Director Michael Hayden to send a letter to all NSA employees regarding at least one suicide within the "NSA family."

This is the report the editor wrote in June 2002 regarding Millis:

House Intelligence Committee Chief Staffer Found Dead 

By Wayne Madsen

June 12, 2000 -- On the evening of June 4, 2000, John Millis, the Staff Director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was found dead in a Fairfax, Virginia motel room from what police termed an apparent suicide. The owners and staff of the motel where Millis’s body was discovered are under orders from the Fairfax City police not to discuss the matter with the media. Congressional colleagues of Millis claim the 47-year-old husband and father exhibited no signs of depression.

As far as any financial difficulties may be concerned, congressional records show that Millis’s annual salary was $132,100, an income considered well above average for the Washington, DC area. In addition, there are unconfirmed reports from people close to the intelligence community that Millis had multiple gunshot wounds to the back of his head.

Before assuming his duties as the chief aide to Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss in 1997, Millis spent a number of years in the CIA. He also served as the Executive Staff Assistant to the Director of the NSA and the CIA’s chief liaison officer to the signals intelligence agency. While with the CIA, Millis served as a case officer in Pakistan where he was involved in support activities for the Afghan mujaheddin.

Before becoming Goss’s chief assistant, Millis served as staff director of the House International Relations Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the U.S. Role in Iranian Arms Transfers to Croatia and Bosnia. That panel discovered the Clinton administration approved of Iranian arms shipments to Bosnian Muslims at a time when the United States branded Iran as a terrorist state.

Millis was a vocal critic of former CIA director John Deutch. In a February 15, 2000 speech before a Smithsonian Institution gathering, Millis described Deutch as the worst director the CIA ever had. He also claimed Deutch did “major damage” to the CIA’s Operations Directorate. 

As a former employee of two major intelligence agencies and the chief staff member of the House Intelligence Committee, Millis would have undergone rigorous high-level security clearance vetting procedures that would have identified any personal life style problems.

And this report in Dec. 20, 2003:

ALLEGED SUICIDES OF TWO INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS IN DC: MORE THAN COINCIDENCE SAYS FORMER CIA OFFICIAL 

By Wayne Madsen 

Dec. 20, 2003 -- A former top official of the CIA, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the recent alleged suicide deaths of two high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials, both of whom died in the same manner  – falls from Washington, DC buildings – appear to be “more than coincidental.”  

On November 7, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Iraqi analyst John J. Kokal, 58, was found dead outside the State Department building. Washington police reported the case a suicide resulting from Kokal’s jumping from the roof of the headquarters building. Although the State Department reported that Kokal was not an analyst at INR, State Department insiders report that Kokal not only was a top Iraqi analyst but that he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on a regular basis. The Washington Post treated the story as a normal police incident. 

On November 25, former National Security Council official Dr. Gus W. Weiss, a known critic of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, was found dead outside a service entrance to Washington’s Watergate East residential building where he lived. Police ruled that Weiss had committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Watergate building.   Weiss was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy under President Jimmy Carter and served on the Signals Intelligence Committee of President Carter’s Intelligence Board. Weiss also served as an adviser to the CIA and as a member of the Defense Science Board. Weiss was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1975. In a manner reminiscent of The Washington Post’s handling of the suspicious automobile crushing death of Marvin Bush’s babysitter on September 29, the paper waited until December 7 to report Weiss’s suspicious death. In the case of Marvin Bush’s babysitter, Bertha Champagne, the Post did not report the incident until October 5. 

The fact that both Kokal and Weiss were critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy should have resulted in much more media attention unless there is a blackout` on coverage of these suspicious deaths.

One seasoned Washington intelligence expert stated that the possibility cannot be ruled that official or semi-official “death squads” are carrying out assassinations of Bush administration critics. 

 “Remember that the Watergate scandal began with the discovery of a single tape, and that brought down an entire administration,” said the expert. 

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