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"American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone" by Jim Fetzer and Four Arrows.
*disclaimer: this isn't an endorsement of Fetzer or his other work. This thread is solely in reference to this book. The fact that Four Arrows co-authored lends credibility to it, in my opinion. Fetzer's other work ranges from insane to obscene. But this book seems solid enough.
On October 25th at about 10:22am, the Beechcraft KingAir A100 carrying Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, his 33 year old daughter, three campaign staffers and two pilots crashed about 2 miles from the Eveleth Airport in northern MN, killing all aboard.
The first cause for the plane crash that was often-repeated by the media in the days afterward: freezing rain/icing. But that premise was horseshit from the start.
Gary Ulman, assistant manager of the Eveleth Airport, jumped in his own small engine plane to search when Wellstone's failed to land. He then took a second flight to help direct search/rescue teams to the wreckage he'd spotted.
Other small aircraft had taken off and landed at the airport immediately prior and after the Wellstone crash. While it was a foggy, drizzly late autumn day, there certainly wasn't any icing.
In fact, in their final correspondence with the tower, the pilots' voices were calm and all was normal. Note that there were two pilots. Both were experienced and licensed, though subsequent lawsuits and the NTSB investigation did turn up some less-than-stellar reports.
Still, the lead pilot on the flight, Richard Conry, had passed FAA checks/tests two days prior to the crash:
Luckily, the FBI was immediately on the scene of the crash. Like, really immediately. Almost too immediately.
(Side note: the smoke from the wreckage was described as being "blue or bluish-gray," not black. This suggests an electrical fire of some kind as opposed to one burning jet fuel. This angle was never investigated. The NTSB report focused SOLELY on pilot error.)
Back to the timeline of the FBI's arrival: the first crash alert sounded at 10:50. Wreckage spotted at 10:55. He never called the FBI. And yet, between 6-10 agents from the FBI's Twin Cities field office were on-site at noon, per the St. Louis County Sheriff, Rick Wahlberg.
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed that no one from their Duluth office went to the crash site that day. There's an FBI office in in Bemidji, but that would have been a long drive on two lane highways. A bit of Minnesota geography:
It is a 2 hour, 57 minute drive, 191 miles from Minneapolis to Eveleth. Even if they'd taken a private plane direct to Duluth or Virginia, rented cars, the timeline is still a hell of a stretch. Especially if they *just* found out about a *possible * crash at 11 or shortly after.
The agents did *not* fly directly to Eveleth, either. That was confirmed by Airport staff. So, what gives? How does anyone explain this?
The FBI assumed control of crash site. Local law enforcement is supposed to do this until the National Travel & Safety Board (NTSB) arrives. NTSB is the lead investigatory agency. FBI reports to them, not the other way around, no matter how high-profile any of the victims were.
But in this instance, not only did the FBI arrive suspiciously quickly, they also overstepped their bounds. A day later they issued a statement confirming "terrorism wasn't a factor," an odd thing to definitively declare without a thorough investigation.
No black box was ever found and the AP photographer on the scene was only allowed 5 minutes, and was followed closely by federal agents as he took pictures. He was quoted as saying both stipulations were "highly unusual."
Also the lead NTSB investigator was a Carol Carmody, who played a role on the investigation of TWA Flight 800 and was a "former" employee of the Central Intelligence Agency.
So, why? If there was a conspiracy to kill him, what were the possible motives?
Getting control of the Senate was critical for the Bush Administration. They had intervened to handpick Norm Coleman to run against Wellstone. It didn't work- Wellstone was surging in the polls when he died, 11 days prior to election day.
If you doubt that the Bush family and those who surrounded them would have any scruples about crashing a plane and killing 8 to achieve their goals I'd like to invite you to read anything, anything at all about those fuckin' people lol
I digress.
Some other possible assassinations via airplane, including one Mel Carnahan, who was running against Bush family favorite John Ashcroft for a Senate seat in Missouri.
Some other possible assassinations via airplane, including one Mel Carnahan, who was running against Bush family favorite John Ashcroft for a Senate seat in Missouri.
Fetzer and Four Arrows settle on assassination, likely using some kind of electromagnetic pulse device to disable the plane's communications and navigation systems to bring it down.
That explanation seems possible but far-fetched. It could have been anything, really. I assume the intelligence services have shit we've never even dreamed of.
Long story short, the timing of the FBI's arrival is the thing that really sets off alarm bells for me. That shit is so WEIRD. They beat many local cops to the scene of the crash even though their office was 200 miles away? I'd love for them to explain that.
I'd love a full, independent investigation into all of the circumstances surrounding Wellstone's death. There is more than enough evidence to warrant healthy suspicion in the official story. But such an investigation is probably never going to happen.
And what a shame. I'm no fan of electoral politics but he was pretty damn good as far as politicians go.
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