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The Death of Paul Wellstone Part Three: So Many Plane Crashes · Conspiracy! The Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to Conspiracy the Show. I say
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  Speaker 1: welcome back because this is part three of our deep, deep,
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into the strange death of Senator Paul Wellstone.
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  Speaker 1: So when we left off, we were discussing the one
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  Speaker 1: criminal lead the FBI received in the wake of the
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  Speaker 1: death of Paul Wellstone that it very much seems like
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  Speaker 1: they did not look into that lead, being could the
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  Speaker 1: Bush Cheney regime have been behind the death? You didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to be the FBI to hear speculation like that
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  Speaker 1: at the time. On October twenty eighth, two thousand and two,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Nieman, writing for the Independent Media Institute, published an
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  Speaker 1: article that was very provocatively titled was US Senator Paul
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  Speaker 1: Wellstone Murdered? Here's a quote from the article. Anyone familiar
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  Speaker 1: with my work knows that I'm certainly not a conspiracy theorist.
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  Speaker 1: But to be honest, I know I wasn't alone in
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  Speaker 1: my initial reaction at this week's horrible and tragic news,
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  Speaker 1: that being my surprise that Wellstone had lived this long.
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  Speaker 1: He also talks about feeling shame over not sharing his
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  Speaker 1: suspicions that Wellstone's life was in danger back when Wellstone
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  Speaker 1: was still alive. He didn't want to get called a
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist. You see, he says he knew of a
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  Speaker 1: few journalists who felt the same way that they suspected
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  Speaker 1: Wellstone might literally die for the stances he was taking
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  Speaker 1: against the Bush administration, but that they also didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to risk their careers by speculating on it publicly. Here's
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  Speaker 1: another quote. There is no indication today that Wellstone's death
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  Speaker 1: was the result of foul play. What we do know, however,
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  Speaker 1: is that Wellstone emerged as the most visible obstacle standing
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  Speaker 1: in the way of a draconian political agenda by an
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  Speaker 1: unelected government, and now he is conveniently gone. End quote.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the draconian political agenda in question there,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's important to understanding why people might
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  Speaker 1: have secretly worried that Wellstone would eventually be killed. I
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  Speaker 1: think it all starts with something I've mentioned on this
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  Speaker 1: show before, which is the Project for the New American
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  Speaker 1: Century that was established in nineteen ninety seven as a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit educational organization. Its stated goal was quote to promote
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  Speaker 1: American global leadership, which right off the bat, Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: the group publicly stated its belief that American leadership is
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  Speaker 1: good both for America and the world, which is highly debatable,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you take it in context with another stated
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  Speaker 1: goal of the PNAC, which was to promote and this
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  Speaker 1: is another quote, a Reaganite policy of military strength and
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  Speaker 1: moral clarity. Woof, and a chill goes down the spines
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  Speaker 1: of our Central American listeners. Of the twenty five people
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  Speaker 1: who signed the pnac's founding Statement of Principles, ten went
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  Speaker 1: on to serve in the George W. Bush administration, including
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  Speaker 1: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. And if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen the film Vice, you know what those motherfuckers
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  Speaker 1: got up to in the two thousands. And if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't the movie Wece, I highly recommend it, if for
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  Speaker 1: no other reason than to see Dick Cheney have a
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  Speaker 1: heart attack six different times comedy Gold. Anyway, the Project
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  Speaker 1: for the New American Century was meant to be a
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  Speaker 1: think tank to give Republicans a quote compelling vision for
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  Speaker 1: American foreign policy end quote. They believed that American conservatives
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  Speaker 1: were adrift in the area of foreign policy, and they
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  Speaker 1: advocated a more elevated vision of America's international role. Another
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  Speaker 1: quote and suggested that the United States should adopt a
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  Speaker 1: stance of benevolent global hegemony. In other words, we should
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  Speaker 1: police the world to make sure everyone is adhering to
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  Speaker 1: our interests. A year before forming the PNAC, American neo
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  Speaker 1: conservative warhawk Robert Kagan published an article called Toward a
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  Speaker 1: Neo Reaganite Foreign Policy. That article posited that conservatives and
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  Speaker 1: liberals alike had been conducting foreign policy in a peace
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  Speaker 1: oriented manner and more inwardly focused way, presuming the public
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  Speaker 1: to be in that mindset. They argued that nineties America
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  Speaker 1: was in a similar situation to seventies America, where we
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  Speaker 1: were oriented toward peace with the Soviet Union, and that
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  Speaker 1: Reagan turned America's foreign policy orientation around instituting a more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive anti communist approach. And to the people who founded
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  Speaker 1: the Project for the New American Century, that's a good thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they wanted to return to. Fuck peace,
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  Speaker 1: we should be in a constant state of fear and war.
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  Speaker 1: When the PNAC was founded a year after that article,
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  Speaker 1: it launched with the goal of making a very specific
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  Speaker 1: dream come true, and that dream is benevolent hegemony, a
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  Speaker 1: scenario in which the United States has defeated all sources
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  Speaker 1: of evil in the world, and as a result, enjoys
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  Speaker 1: strategic and ideological predominance throughout the globe. It had three
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  Speaker 1: imperatives increased defense budget obviously, citizen involvement aka strengthening the
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  Speaker 1: ties between citizens and military life, Thank you very much, NFL,
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  Speaker 1: you did it. And moral clarity. Here's a quote about
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  Speaker 1: that one. The United States achieved its present position of
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  Speaker 1: strength not by practicing a foreign policy of live and
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  Speaker 1: let live, nor by passively waiting for threats to arise,
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  Speaker 1: but by actively promoting American principles of governance abroad, democracy,
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  Speaker 1: free markets, respect for liberty. In case it's unclear, they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about preemptive military action there, invading a country before
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  Speaker 1: it can even pose a threat minority report shit. They
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  Speaker 1: also added this, sometimes that means not just supporting US
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  Speaker 1: friends and gently pressuring other nations, but actively pursuing policies
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  Speaker 1: in Iran, Cuba, or China, for instance, ultimately intended to
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  Speaker 1: bring about a change of regime. One regime change the
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  Speaker 1: PNAC was especially interested in was Iraq. They advocated for
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  Speaker 1: it in a nineteen ninety eight letter signed by eighteen people.
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  Speaker 1: Again ten of whom went on to serve in the
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  Speaker 1: Bush administration. But the project's most alarming moment happened in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, when a PNAC report called Rebuilding America's Defenses
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  Speaker 1: predicted that the shift to get Saddam Hussein out of
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  Speaker 1: power would come about slowly unless there were and here's
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  Speaker 1: a quote, some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new
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  Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor end quote. So, in case you're wondering where
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  Speaker 1: all of that Bush did nine to eleven stuff started,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. A year before nine to eleven happened,
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  Speaker 1: the people who benefited from it the most, both politically
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  Speaker 1: and financially, were writing papers about how beneficial something like
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  Speaker 1: nine to eleven would be. Weird. By the time nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven happened, Dick Cheney was Vice president, Donald Rumsfeld
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  Speaker 1: was Secretary of Defense, and Paul Wilfowitz was his deputy
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  Speaker 1: at the Pentagon. Here's a quote about nine to eleven
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  Speaker 1: from Bob Woodward's book Bush at War. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: before it was even clear who was behind the attacks,
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  Speaker 1: Rumsfeld insisted at a cabinet meeting that Saddam's Iraq should
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  Speaker 1: be a principal target of the first round of the
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  Speaker 1: War on Terrorism, but they weren't just interested in Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: General Wesley Clark mentioned the post nine to eleven atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: among the PNAC laden Bush administration in an interview around
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  Speaker 1: that time. He claimed he was told as early as
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  Speaker 1: September twentieth, two thousand and one, that we'd be going
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  Speaker 1: to war with Iraq. A few weeks later, the same source,
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  Speaker 1: a military general who worked at the Pentagon, told Clark
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  Speaker 1: it was actually way bigger than Iraq. Here's a quote
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  Speaker 1: from Wesley Clark. So I came back to see him
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks later, and by that time we were
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  Speaker 1: bombing Afghanistan. I said, are we still going to war
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  Speaker 1: with Iraq? And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
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  Speaker 1: He reached over on his desk. He picked up a
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  Speaker 1: piece of paper and he said, I just got this
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  Speaker 1: down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense's office today,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, this is a memo that describes how
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take out seven countries in five years,
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  Speaker 1: starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,
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  Speaker 1: and finishing off Iran. I said, is it classified? He said, yes, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I said well, don't show it to me. End quote.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bush administration didn't just come into office hoping
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  Speaker 1: to take down Iraq. They had a plan to completely
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  Speaker 1: rework American foreign policy and kind of the entire world.
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  Speaker 1: No matter where you stand on the Bush did nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven theory, one thing we can all agree on
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  Speaker 1: is that Dick Cheney and his corporate cohorts made a
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  Speaker 1: ton of money as a result of our invasion of Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: The most obvious example of that is Halliburton, the company
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  Speaker 1: Dick Cheney was the CEO of right up until the
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  Speaker 1: point he became vice president. Halliburton's business dealings with the
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  Speaker 1: military skyrocketed under the Bush Cheney administration. The company rose
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  Speaker 1: to seventh largest military contractor in two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: up from the twenty second largest in just two thousand
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  Speaker 1: three short years. In two thousand and four, The New
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  Speaker 1: York Times reported that Cheney received nearly two million dollars
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  Speaker 1: from Halliburton while he was in office. In two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, Halliburton was awarded a contract to provide food, housing, fuel,
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  Speaker 1: and other logistical support for troops in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: That contract generated five billion dollars for Halliburton just through
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four. In March two thousand and three, Kellogg,
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  Speaker 1: Brown and Root, which was Halliburton's construction and engineering subsidiary,
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  Speaker 1: was awarded a no bid contract to restore and operate
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  Speaker 1: Iraqi oil wells. That contract was classified just before the
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  Speaker 1: invasion of Iraq. Go figure, but it's estimated to have
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  Speaker 1: been worth approximately seven billion dollars. So the Bush Cheney
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  Speaker 1: regime had a vested financial interest in making sure their
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  Speaker 1: revival of the American war machine moved forward, as did
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  Speaker 1: countless other corporate cronies who stood the profit from an
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  Speaker 1: eventual war in Iraq and beyond. And Paul Wellstone opposed
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  Speaker 1: that war, but his opposition was deeper than that. Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind this is all happening in a world that
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  Speaker 1: was fresh off of nine to eleven. The Bush administration
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of opposition when it came to
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  Speaker 1: the war in Iraq. At first, the Senate was mostly
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  Speaker 1: falling in line, but Wellstone was not, and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he got a boost in the polls from opposing
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  Speaker 1: the war made it very likely that some of his
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  Speaker 1: fellow Democrats might take the same approach. Wellstone had the
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  Speaker 1: most consistent record of opposing Bush administration initiatives of any
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  Speaker 1: member in the Senate. He was the chairman of the
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  Speaker 1: Securities Reform Committee. He was attempting to block the nomination
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  Speaker 1: of William Webster, who's a former CIA and FBI head
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  Speaker 1: and good good friend of big business types, from becoming
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  Speaker 1: the chairman of the SEC's Accounting Oversight Commission. He was
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  Speaker 1: also one of the lead voices pushing for an investigation
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  Speaker 1: into three hundred and fifty million dollars that went missing
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  Speaker 1: from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a matter Bush's Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Interior, Gail Norton twice pleaded the fifth over when
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  Speaker 1: asked about it. Keep that scandal in mind for next episode.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be very important then. But carrying on another thing,
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  Speaker 1: Wellstone was vocally opposed to the Bush administration practice of
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  Speaker 1: allowing homeland security contracts to be signed with American companies
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  Speaker 1: that had moved offshore to avoid paying taxes, which, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what side of the aisle on if you're not
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  Speaker 1: also opposed to that, enjoy the taste of that boot
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  Speaker 1: you're licking, buddy. Those contracts, along with the Halliburton contracts,
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  Speaker 1: were a huge point of contention. When this war finally started,
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  Speaker 1: Wellstone proposed legislation to prevent these contracts, and the measure
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  Speaker 1: passed by a voice vote on the Senate floor. And
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  Speaker 1: then guess what the measures were withdrawn after Paul Wellstone died.
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  Speaker 1: How convenient. Wellstone was also opposed to something called Plan Columbia,
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  Speaker 1: which was an initiative ostensibly meant to fight drug trafficking
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  Speaker 1: that actually just made the countries where it was implemented
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  Speaker 1: way more danger for anyone who wasn't a drug trafficker.
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  Speaker 1: And possibly the first attempt on his life actually happened
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  Speaker 1: on a trip to Colombia when a bomb was found
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  Speaker 1: along the route he was supposed to be traveling that day,
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  Speaker 1: But the CIA definitely didn't plant that bomb. Another thing
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  Speaker 1: well Stone was actively involved in was trying to pass
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  Speaker 1: legislation to protect workers and consumers against asbestos poisoning. And
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  Speaker 1: that might not strike you immediately as a stance that
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  Speaker 1: would put a person's life in danger, but consider this.
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  Speaker 1: The aforementioned Halliburton was deeply involved in the asbestos issue
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  Speaker 1: due to a previous merger with a company called Dresser Industries.
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  Speaker 1: That merger brought lots of asbestos liabilities with it estimated
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  Speaker 1: to be two point two billion dollars over a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year period if things went the way Wellstone wanted. Did
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  Speaker 1: people ever get murdered for financial reasons? Is money ever
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  Speaker 1: a motive for murder? I don't know. I should look
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  Speaker 1: that up anyway. On account of all that, the Bush
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  Speaker 1: administration was laser focused on getting well Stone out of office.
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  Speaker 1: By October two thousand and two, Bush had visited Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: four times to drum up support for Wellstone's opponent, Norm Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on attack ads.
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  Speaker 1: At a meeting with war veterans and Wilmar Minnesota two
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  Speaker 1: days before his death, well Stone said that Dick Cheney
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  Speaker 1: told him, quote, if you vote against the war in Iraq,
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  Speaker 1: the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you.
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  Speaker 1: There will be severe ramifications for you and the state
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  Speaker 1: of Minnesota. But reminder, he did vote against the war
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  Speaker 1: in Iraq, and it actually improved his standing in the polls.
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  Speaker 1: A Minneapolis Star Tribune survey from the week of October eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two, showed that forty seven percent of
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  Speaker 1: voters supported Wellstone, compared to forty one percent for Norm Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: Around this time, publications were running all sorts of stories
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  Speaker 1: about how the Bush Cheney machine wanted nothing more than
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  Speaker 1: to defeat Paul Wellstone, and it was becoming more and
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  Speaker 1: more clear that they were probably going to fail. That's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not proof that Paul Wellstone was murdered by the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: but it is motive, which is a key aspect of
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  Speaker 1: any murder case. Paul Wellstone presented a legitimate obstacle to
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  Speaker 1: the goals of the Bush administration. He was maybe going
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  Speaker 1: to filibuster the Homeland Security Act. He opposed them on
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  Speaker 1: tax cuts, the SEC and the war in Iraq. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to open further investigations into nine to eleven. If
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  Speaker 1: there was anyone the Republicans might have considered assassinating in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two, it was Paul Wellstone. And again,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't just opposition to one war we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Wellstone was the most effective and vocal opponent of
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  Speaker 1: everything the Busokush administration wanted to do. To give you
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  Speaker 1: an idea of how much of an obstacle he was
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  Speaker 1: and the lengths to the Republicans would go to to
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  Speaker 1: remove perceived obstacles. Let's talk about a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: that happened after Wellstone died. For one thing, the stock
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  Speaker 1: market immediately rallied upon news of Wellstone's death. A Slate
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  Speaker 1: article published the day of the crash pointed that out
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  Speaker 1: there weren't any financial experts taken to the airwaves to
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  Speaker 1: say that. But Slate writer Daniel Gross looked at the
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  Speaker 1: intra day charts and noted that all of the other
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  Speaker 1: news that could have maybe caused a rally or swayed
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  Speaker 1: the market at all broke in the morning, and by
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  Speaker 1: one thirty pm Eastern time or so, things had mostly
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  Speaker 1: settled down as people started prepping for the weekend. But
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  Speaker 1: then news of the crash started coming through and the
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  Speaker 1: stock market took off. So it wasn't just the Bush
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  Speaker 1: administration that recognized Wellstone as a potential impact meant to
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  Speaker 1: their dreams. It was all of corporate America. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's the Senate split. Before the two thousand and two
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections, the Senate was at a massively uncomfortable forty
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  Speaker 1: nine to forty nine split between Republicans and Democrats. There
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  Speaker 1: were a couple independents in there By the time those
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  Speaker 1: elections were over, the Republicans had a fifty one forty
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  Speaker 1: eight majority, meaning they'd have a much easier time getting
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  Speaker 1: their various war requests fulfilled without much opposition. Wellstone's death,
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  Speaker 1: coupled with Walter Mondale's subsequent loss, made for one of
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  Speaker 1: those seats the Democrats lost. The other was Max Cleland's
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  Speaker 1: Senate seat in Georgia, which I think is another fine
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  Speaker 1: example of how far Republicans were willing to go to
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  Speaker 1: win that Senate majority. After Wellstone's death, according to the
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  Speaker 1: authors of American Assassination, seven hundred thousand dollars that was
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  Speaker 1: meant to be used to keep him from winning was
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  Speaker 1: reallocated to be used to keep Cleveland from winning. I
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  Speaker 1: can't confirm, but it's possible that some of that money
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  Speaker 1: went toward one of the most insane and disgusting attack
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  Speaker 1: ads of all time. Because here's the thing about Max Cleland.
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  Speaker 1: He's a decorated Vietnam War veteran who lost both legs
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  Speaker 1: and his right arm during a mission in Quisan, which
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  Speaker 1: makes it all the more crazier that his opponent, a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Saxby Chambliss, with the full support of the
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  Speaker 1: Bush administration ran attack ads claiming Max Cleland was unpatriotic
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  Speaker 1: because he opposed George W. Bush. In the commercials, Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: was photoshopped into pictures with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, a guy who lost three limbs serving in
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  Speaker 1: his country on the battlefield was less of a patriot
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  Speaker 1: than the lawyer turned concer servative politician he was facing,
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  Speaker 1: who never served in the military at all. Why because
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  Speaker 1: that Vietnam veteran voted against Republicans on an amendment to
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  Speaker 1: the Chemical Weapons Treaty that would have allowed quote terrorist
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  Speaker 1: nations that's a Bush Administration quote to be on United
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  Speaker 1: Nations Weapons Inspections teams in Iraq, And somehow that shit worked.
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  Speaker 1: In the weeks leading up to the election, groups that
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  Speaker 1: had previously supported Cleveland started withdrawing that support. Even the
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  Speaker 1: Veterans of Foreign Wars endorsed Chambliss, who again never even
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  Speaker 1: served in the military. Meanwhile, Cleveland was awarded a Silver
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  Speaker 1: Star for his service and once served as the head
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  Speaker 1: of the Veterans Administration. Despite holding a twenty two point
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  Speaker 1: lead over Chambliss in the polls at one point, Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: lost in a massive upset his supporters blamed that horrifying
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  Speaker 1: attack ad and the resulting fallout from it, for costing
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  Speaker 1: him that election, But is that really what happened? Because
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: something else that's worth mentioning in regards to what Republicans
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  Speaker 1: were willing to do in the name of carrying out
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  Speaker 1: their agenda is the multiple claims and allegations that they
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  Speaker 1: were using touchscreen voting machines to steal votes. Remember that,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of voter fraud Republicans, and it wasn't a claim
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  Speaker 1: that was being spread by disgruntled Democrats or conspiracy blogs.
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  Speaker 1: It was spread by all sorts of mainstream outlets who
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  Speaker 1: rightly questioned the wisdom in letting companies that were friendly
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  Speaker 1: to the Bush administration make voting machines that no one
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  Speaker 1: was allowed to inspect and that produced no on paper
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  Speaker 1: evidence of who a person voted for. Victoria Collier, writing
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  Speaker 1: for Harper's in twenty twelve, published a fascinating rundown of
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  Speaker 1: how's a Bush Cheney machine facilitated kind of a borderline
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  Speaker 1: corporate takeover of the American voting system in the early
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  Speaker 1: two thousands. It starts in nineteen ninety six with the
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  Speaker 1: election of Chuck Hagel to a Senate seat in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Hagel was completely unknown before entering the race. His opponent
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  Speaker 1: was a wildly popular Democrat named Ben Nelson, who'd been
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  Speaker 1: elected in a landslide two years earlier. Prior to the race,
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  Speaker 1: a poll conducted by the Omaha World Herald showed the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: race was a dead heat, with each candidate polling at
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: forty seven percent. That set the stage for a close election,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: but then it wasn't close at all. Improbably, Hagel destroyed
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Nelson by fifteen points, taking a seat that hadn't been
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: held by a Republican in eighteen years. What the world
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: didn't find out until well after that election was that,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: right up until shortly before that election started, Chuck Hagel
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: was the chairman of the company whose computerized voting machines
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: counted the votes in that election. Company was called Election
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Systems and Software or ESS. In two thousand and two,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Hegel's challenge for that seat by a Democrat named Charlie Motulka,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: who directly questioned the relationship between Hegel and the company
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that makes the voting machines. Motoka lost that election by
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: an insane margin. Hagel won eighty three percent of the vote.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Matolka only got seventy thousand, two hundred and ninety votes,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: despite more than four hundred thousand Democrats being registered to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: vote at the time. By this point in American history,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the same year Wellstone died and Max Cleveland lost, vote
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: counting in this country was already well on its way
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to being centralized in the hands of two companies that
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: both had strong partisan ties to the far right. Ess,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the company that maybe helped Chuck Hagel take a Senate
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: seat in Nebraska, was founded in Omaha by Bob and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Todd Eurosovich. That company's main competitor is a company called
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: die Bold, who makes ATM machines but somehow can't make
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: voting machines that spit out a receipt. You get a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: receipt in an ATM, just saying anyway. In two thousand
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and two, Bob Eurosovich left Ess and guess where he
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: went to die Bold? Remember them, That's the company who's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: CEO in two thousand and three promised to deliver Ohio
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to George W. Bush in the following year's election, And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that exact thing happened. Both of these companies, much to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the consternation of literally everyone except Republicans refuse to let
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: their voting machines be inspected by outside observers, claiming they
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: didn't want to reveal proprietary information, which I guess if
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you're in that field and you've had to make that
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: claim before, maybe that sounds right. But this is vote
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: counting software. It just counts. It's not supposed to do
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: anything else. What is proprietary about vote counting software? Anyway?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: The two thousand and four election came down to Ohio,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: which George W. Bush won, even though exit polls showed
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: him losing by a whole lot. Ohio's hardcore conservative Secretary
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: of State Kenneth Blackwell, a staunch Bush supporter, ignored any
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: claims of impropriety. A report about all the weirdness in
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Ohio votes, and there was a lot, including cases
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: of voting machines just outright flipping Carry votes to Bush votes,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: were outlined in a two thousand and five report called
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Preserving Democracy What went Wrong in Ohio by Representative John
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Conyers and what does all this have to do with
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Max cleland Well. In the month leading up to his election,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Diebold employees applied in un certified software patch to five
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: thousand voting machines in Georgia. This is a quote. We
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: were told that it was intended to fix the clock
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in the system, which it did not do. That's whistleblower
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Chris Hood, a former Diebold consultant, speaking to Rolling Stone
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. And here's another quote. The
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: curious thing is the very swift covert way this was done.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: keep it secret from the state. We were told not
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: directly from Bob Eurosovich. It was very unusual that a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: president of the company would give an order like that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and be involved at that level. Weird, huh. But what
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I'm getting at here is that the death of Paul
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Wellstone happened at a point in history when Republicans were
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: doing everything possible to make sure no one stood in
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the way of their plans to set the United States
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: on course for a perpetual state of war in the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Middle East. Does that mean they'd go so far as
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: to commit murder by airplane. I don't know. Even if
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: it does, I'm certainly not gonna be the one to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: prove it's true. But I will tell you this, Republicans,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: especially Republicans with ties to the Bush Cheney machine, have
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: more than one fortuitously timed plane crash on their record.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about nine to eleven case
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: in point. In two thousand and eight, in Ohio, attorney
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and former Republican named Cliff Arnebeck started gathering evidence to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: file a racketeering claim against Carl Rove, which included the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: claim that Rove had masterminded the theft of the two
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: thousand and four election. His key witness was a guy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: named Michael Connell, who was the Bush campaign's chief IT strategist.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: This is a quote from Cliff Arnebeck. We detected a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: pattern of criminal activity. We identified Connell as a key
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: witness as the implementer for Rove. Arnabeck actually managed to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: get a deposition out of Connell and hoped to have
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: him testify against Carl Rove in open court. But that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: never happened because on December nineteenth, two thousand and eight,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: at the age of forty seven, Michael Connell died when
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the single engine Piper Saratoga plane he was piloting alone
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: crashed en route from Washington, d C. To Ohio. How
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: weirdly convenient is that? And oh man, we are just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: getting started on the suspiciously well timed plane crash front.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Before we move on, let's just run through some of
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the details of the Wellstone crash. A Democratic candidate for
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Senate in the midst of a close race with huge
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: implications for control of the Senate dies in a plane
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: crash less than a month before their impending election. As
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: politically convenient as it all may seem, Carol Krmody and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the NTSB rush in to assure everyone that nothing weird happened,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: despite eyewitness accounts to the contrary. The eventual NTSB report
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: blames the crash on pilot error. So we know all
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of that happened in the Wellstone crash. Now, what if
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I told you all of that happened twice in the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: span of two years, Because it did. On October sixteenth,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: two thousand, a plane carrying Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, then
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a Democratic candidate for the Senate, crash just weeks before
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the election he was running in. Shortly after the crash happened,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: acting NTSB head Carol Krmody assured the public that nothing
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: odd was afoot, just regular plane crash shenanigans. The eventual
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: NTSB report blamed pilot error. He just got disoriented as all,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: just like Wellstone's pilots. That despite eyewitness account out of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the Carnahan crash reporting an explosion, the sky turning red,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and the plane going down in a fireball, none of
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: which is indicative of sloppy piloting unless he hit an
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: iceberg up there. That all implies sabotage of some sort.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Planes don't just explode in the air on their own,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But none of that came up in the final report.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Just pilot error and nothing more. Sounds familiar right now.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: If you're old enough to remember the early two thousands,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you might vaguely recall this funny thing that happened where
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a guy running for office died in a plane crash
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but still won the ensuing election because voters just hated
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: his opponent that much. Well, that guy was Mel Carnahan,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and the person he beat was John Ashcroft, who went
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: on to be named Attorney General when George W. Bush
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: took office. You might also remember John Ashcroft as the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: guy who did this in public while Sir in one
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: of the highest offices in all the land.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: You can see it in her eye. She's not yet
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: begun to fly. It's time to let the mighty eagle
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: soar once more, Flady Egle soor like she's never sore before,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: from a rocky coast to golden shore. Let the mighty
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Egle s.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: You know what else he did in his role as
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Attorney General. It was up to him to decide if
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the Paul Wellstone crash was worthy of a criminal investigation.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: As mentioned earlier, He decided that it was not. So
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: those possibilities were literally never explored at all in any capacity.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: So add that to the odd coincidences between the Mel
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Carnahan and Paul Wellstone crashes. John Ashcroft was an integral
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: figure in both of them. There is a key difference
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: between the two crashes, though, and that Republicans still didn't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: win that Senate seat. After Mel Carnahan died, Missouri law
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: demanded that Carnahan still be on the ballot, at which
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: point it was up to voters to decide if they
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: wanted Ashcroft or a dead guy in office. They chose
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the dead guy, and his wife was appointed as his replacement.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: If the Republicans had won that seat, they'd have taken
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a fifty one to forty nine advantage in the Senate. Instead,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: it was split fifty to fifty. But on the bright side,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: once Bush took office, Dick Cheney was the tie breaking vote.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: But the circumstances tightened up a little more nicely for
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Republicans with the Wellstone crash. Laws in that state mandated
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that someone run in Paul Wellstone's place, and since his
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: wife was on that plane with him, it wasn't going
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to be her. The Democrats ended up running Walter Mondale,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: who lost by a lot. Now, what are the odds
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of that? Not Walter Mondale losing. The odds of that
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: were significantly high all the time. But what are the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: odds of a senator dying in a plane crash just
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: days before the election? Even once I get that they
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: fly a lot, But that is a very specific window
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of time in which that plane crash needs to happen.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: The odds of that ever happening again in aviation history
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: have to be incredibly slim, right, But it happened twice
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in two years, both times to the benefit of the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Republican Party, with John Ashcroft and former CIA analyst Carol
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Carmody playing integral roles in both crashes, and in both
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: cases the cause was experienced pilots making unexplained, nonspecific last
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: minute errors, even though people on the ground reported seeing
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and hearing things that weren't in line with the official report.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: All of that happened twice in two years. So if
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you're keeping count, we're up to three sketchy plane crashes
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that all at the very least had the potential to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: be beneficial to the Bush Cheney war machine. And we're
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: not done because, for one thing, remember who we're talking
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: about here, George Bush, Which George Bush? Does it matter?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Do you think father and son somehow had differing goals
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: when it came to America's potential world domination, as foretold
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: in the Project for the New American Century, a document
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that was also signed by Jeb Bush. Yeah, the Wellstone
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: crash and eventually the Carnahan crash were to the benefit
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of George W. Bush. But his dad has a few
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: well timed plane crashes on his record as well. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: before we get into him, just a reminder, George HW.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Bush Bush was the eleventh ever director of the CIA,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a job he got despite being the head of the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal and a staunch
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Nixon supporter through all of it. Sure, he only served
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: as CIA director for one year, but he did serve.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: In that role.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, in a few short years after his tenure, he
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: was Vice President of the United States, a role he
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: served in for eight years before becoming the first ever
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: head of the CIA to become president. So with a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: background like that, he's going to know a thing or
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: two about covert operations and suspicious deaths. I mean, there
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: are rumors that George H. W. Bush was involved in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination for Fock's sake, and hey, sometimes those
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: suspicious deaths are going to happen by airplane, like the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: death of Omar Trejos, for example. He was the de
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: facto leader of Panama from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen eight.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty one. Bush's second year as second in chief
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: is the year Omar Torehosts threatened to blow up the
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Panama Canal in the event of a United States invasion. Conveniently,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: it never came to that, because on July thirty first,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, Omar Torehos was killed when the plane
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he was flying in crashed, And in this case, it
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: didn't just crash, it disappeared from radar and the wreckage
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't found for another week. Torehos was replaced as leader
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: of Panama by CIA operative Manuel Noriega. Go figure. There
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: was immediate speculation that this was a US backed assassination,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: as you'd expect, but good luck proven it Panama. That said.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: In his two thousand and four book Confessions of an
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Economic Hitman, author John Perkins claims torehost was assassinated for
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: fusing to align with US corporate interests. He also claims
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: in the book that he was party to a process
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: of economic colonization of Third world countries on behalf of
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: a cabal of corporations, banks, and the US government. Sounds
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: like some wild conspiracy shit, I know, but that book
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: spent seventy weeks on the New York Times bestseller's list
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and has since been published in at least thirty two languages,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: for whatever that's worth. Oh. Also, all documents relating to
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the cause of the Torreho's crash quote went missing during
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty nine US invasion of Panama convenient again.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: And the Torrehos crash happened just a couple months after
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Ecuadorian President Jimei Roaldos Aguilera died in a similarly suspicious
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: crash that was similarly beneficial to US interests, and of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: course it was blamed on unexplained pilot error. So if
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you're still keeping track, we have well Stone, Carnahan, Michael O'Connell,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Omar Torijost, Jamie Rodos Aguilera. That's five deaths by plane
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: crash that all share very similar details. And one of
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: those details is that all of those people, in one
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: way or another stood in the way of Republican dreams
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: of a Reaganite future for America. And now let's talk
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: about John Tower. He was a Republican who was appointed
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: by Republicans to investigate Republicans. Specifically, in nineteen eighty six,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Reagan appointed John Tower as head of what came to
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: be aptly named the Tower Commission, which was tasked with
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: investigating the Iran Contra scandal. Tower was a Republican, but
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: he also tended to break with his party from time
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: to time, but also supported George H. W. Bush during
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: his confirmation as CIA director so he probably seemed like
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a safe choice. Turns out he was not a safe choice.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: The Tower report sharply criticized the Reagan administration for their
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: role in the scandal, and even demanded that the president
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: take accountability for what happened. He also left something out
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that everyone involved knew he knew, which was that George HW.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Bush was a central figure in the scandal, which makes
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: what happens next very interesting for starters. Reagan offered Tower
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the CIA director job shortly after the report came out,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: but Tower declined the job. Question, do you think that
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: move was intended to keep Tower from talking more because
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: they knew he left some key details out? Maybe not?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Because George HW. Bush actually nominated Tower to be his
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, but the Senate rejected his nomination the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: first time that happened since nineteen fifty nine because the
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: stories about Towers womanizing and problems with alcohol that were
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: mysteriously leaked to the press. Now can you guess who
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: people suspect of leaking those stories. That's right, George H. W. Bush.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: The Senate rejection effectively derailed John Tower's career and paved
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the way for Dick Cheney to become Secretary of State instead.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Shady right now, guess how John Tower eventually died. You
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: guessed it in a mysterious plane crash that happened in
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. By that point, he'd already written one
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: tell all book about his time in government, including some
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: stuff about his investigation of the Iran Contra scandal. Rumor
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: was he and his daughter were working on a follow
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: up which was to be a tell all specifically about
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that scandal and the names involved in it. But before
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: that could happen, the Atlantic Southeast Airlines commuter flight that
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: John Tower and his daughter Marian were flying on crashed
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: shortly before it was due to land, in a crash that,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: much like well Stone's, involved two pilots making final contact
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: with air traffic control that indicated no problems at all,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and then crashing immediately afterwards for reasons that still aren't
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: entirely clear. So now, just to update the tally, that's
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Paul Wellstone, Mel Carnahan, Michael O'Connell, omar Toihost Hime, Roaldos Aguilera,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and James Tower. That's six weird deaths by plane crash,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: all of which happened at a time that made them
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: beneficial or at least potentially beneficial to this country's Reagan,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Bush Cheney fueled version of the future. And we still
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: aren't done talking about plane crashes like not in general,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: but for today we are because I, much like you,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I suspect am tired of hearing my own voice right now.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: We will wrap this all up next week by talking
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: about another strange airline disaster, Alaska Airlines Flight two sixty one,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the flight that partially inspired the Denzel Washington film Flight,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: which is the Rocky of movies about cocaine addicts. We
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: will also talk about a wild but still completely plausible
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: theory about how these crashes were orchestrated if they were
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: indeed sabotaged. Until then, stay safe, America. Thanks, we love you.