Explosive New Book: Was Senator Paul Wellstone Assassinated?

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American Assassination

Book Description

Senator Paul Wellstone was "the first 1960s radical elected to the U.S.
Senate." In Senate Race 2002, the White House made defeating Wellstone
priority #1. Karl Rove hand-picked arch-Republican Norm Coleman to run
against him. Despite massive funding, Coleman was trailing the popular
Wellstone less than two weeks before election day.

Then, tragedy struck. On the morning of October 25th, 2002, Wellstone was
killed after a mysterious communication cut-out and crash of his small
plane. He died alongside his wife Sheila, their daughter Marcia, three staff
members, and two pilots, while trying to land at Minnesota¹s
Eveleth-Virginia airport.

CNN¹s Wolf Blitzer insisted to his reporter at the scene that foul weather
was the lethal factor in the crash, despite statements to the contrary from
the CNN correspondent who was actually there. To this day, the public tends
to blame the weather.

Ph.D. Professors James Fetzer and Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs present the
harrowing truth. The plane was not responsible. The weather didn¹t cause it
to crash. Nor were the two pilots incompetent, as the indefensible report of
the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would eventually claim.

The facts point elsewhere. The FBI arrived at the remote rural crash scene
less than two hours after the crash. Could they have known about it in
advance? The FBI forbade the ambulance and the fire teams to take photos.
Even the AP photographer on hand was intimidated, delayed and then
monitored. A member of the U.S. Capitol Police Dignitary Protection Division
was present.

Did these representatives of law enforcement illegally remove evidence
before the NTSB arrived to investigate, some eight hours later? Why did the
FBI state that they were treating the site as a "crime scene" but also
maintain that this was not the scene of a crime?

How could the FBI conclude and publicly announce, even before NTSB had
arrived, that there was "no evidence of terrorism"? A determination of the
cause of the crash would not be made for more than a year. So how could they
possibly know?

AMERICAN ASSASSINATION confirms the worst fears of a nation. Senator Paul
Wellstone was murdered for political purposes and the cause of the crash was
covered up. This book explains who, why, and how it was done.

Both authors are decorated university professors. A Native American, Four
Arrows (a.k.a. Dr. Don Jacobs) teaches educational leadership and is a
staunch critic of US foreign policy. Dr. Jim Fetzer is a published expert on
U.S. political assassinations and on the logic of science.

These two Ph.D.s point out the official story¹s inconsistencies and what
even appear to be its deliberate omissions. They assess its inadequacies and
explain why it should not be taken seriously.

With methodical arguments, they present evidence of an official cover-up, a
compelling motive for Wellstone¹s assassination, and a more likely
explanation of how the plane was downed. Some of the most important evidence
they discuss includes:

? NTSB¹s Carol Carmody handled the Wellstone case. A former CIA official,
she is a damage-control expert who handled the NTSB¹s investigation of the
suspicious aircraft crash of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan during his race
against Senator John Ashcroft two years earlier.

? NTSB is legally mandated to take jurisdiction over a crash scene, yet
they let the FBI take control. Yet in its official report, the NTSB failed
to even mention any role by the FBI.

? There was never any distress call from the pilots. There was a cessation
of communication commensurate with loss of control.

? Some witnesses heard the engines cutting out, a phenomenon not consistent
with a stall.

? Others reported odd cell-phone and garage-door phenomena that were taking
place about the same time the plane lost communications and control.

? The NTSB's own simulations, which replicated the weather, the flight, and
the plane under similar conditions, were unable to bring it down<-even when
they were conducted at abnormally slow speeds!

? One of the members who actually signed the report, Richard Healing,
admitted that the NTSB really had no idea what had caused the plane to
crash.

Since becoming active in this issue, local residents have contacted Dr.
Fetzer and related strange electronic interference in the area at the time
of the crash. One experienced an odd cell-phone phenomenon with a form of
static he had never heard before. Its auditory pattern appears to be similar
to that of "electro-magnetic pulse" (EMP) weapons recently developed by the
Pentagon to take out computerized systems and wreak harm on human targets.

Reports of garage doors that mysteriously opened in the immediate vicinity
are surfacing. And radar images from the time of the plane crashes of
Senator Carnahan and of Senator Wellstone are suggestive of EMP imprints.
These weapons could have disable its radio communications and caused at
least a partial loss of control. But they can do even more damage to human
beings by rendering them unconscious, incapable of muscle control, or
bringing about their death.

In the wake of the crash, 69% of Minnesotans blamed a "GOP conspiracy" for
Wellstone¹s death. AMERICAN ASSASSINATION provides a rigorous argument based
upon a thorough assessment of the evidence that makes the case that they
were right.

The appendices present highlights from Wellstone¹s agenda and his speech
"On Iraq." His opposition to the rich and powerful helps us all to
understand why he would be targeted for assassination. When you encounter
this courageous man in his own words, you will absorb his vision and
appreciate precisely why Senator Paul Wellstone must continue to inspire us.

Prepublication Reviews

³Gripping and compelling...With new evidence and scientific rigor, Drs.
Fetzer and Jacobs systematically appraise the alternative explanations for
the death of a United States Senator. Their conclusion--that Paul Wellstone
was the target of an assassination--is very disturbing. It should motivate
local authorities to launch a formal inquiry into the death of this
remarkable American.²

-- Donald T. Phillips, Author, Lincoln on Leadership

³Meticulous research...rigorous analysis. Their efforts lead us to only one
conclusion...much of the circumstantial evidence incriminates Vice -
President Dick Cheney and other prominent figures in the Bush Administration
as having some involvement in Wellstone¹s death.

³This book represents a tremendous collaboration in courage. In chronicling
yet another chapter in what has rapidly become one the darkest eras in the
history of American democracy, this book deserves far more serious attention
than it will likely receive from the mainstream of American journalism and
scholarship.²

-- David Gabbard, Professor, East Carolina University Author, Knowledge and
Power in the Global Economy

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Book Review

³By unraveling the conditions under which he died, Four Arrows and Jm Fetzer
have not only paid tribute to Paul Wellstone, they've brought to light the
facts surrounding yet another suspicious plane crash in a lineage that
extends back to Governor Mel Carnahan, Senator John Tower, and Congressman
Hale Boggs.²

-- Russ Wellen, Freezerbox.com

Target Wellstone
BY RUSS WELLEN
BOOKS | 9.7.2004

American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
By Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer
Vox Pop, 199 pages, $14.00

So fierce is the competition in the crime fiction market today that only
the cozy genre of mystery can still get away with a single murder victim. In
padding the body count, however, authors lose sight of the first rule of a
good crime novel: reanimate the corpse. In other words, the reader must get
to know and care about the deceased.

When the plane carrying Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone to the funeral of
a state lawmaker's father crashed, his wife, daughter, three staff members,
and two pilots died as well. By writing American Assassination: The Strange
Death of Senator Paul Wellstone (on Sander Hicks's new Vox Pop imprint),
Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer honor all the victims. But demonstrating that a
crime--massacre actually--was committed requires showing how Wellstone's
Senate career constituted a monument to humanitarianism that demanded to be
toppled as sure as Saddam's statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad.

Unfortunately, sniping from the left that he failed to hew to the party
line obscured Wellstone's achievements (documented in an appendix to the
book). In fact, his comprehensive approach to progressive causes, from
reforming American farm policy to opposing GATT and NAFTA, paralleled how
the right leaves no stone unturned in its relentless quest to roll back any
legislation that could conceivably be called enlightened.

In light of the suspicious circumstances under which he died, you can't
help but think that the right saw him as not one, but a plague of gadflies
that had to be eradicated. He was in fact exposed to aerial
spraying--intentionally, the authors maintain--while inspecting the effect
of glycophospate on Colombian coca fields. With each vote, Wellstone more
and more resembled a man marching to his doom.

Not only the mainstream, but also most of the independent media has used
Wellstone campaign manager Jeff Blodgett's profession of certainty that
pilot error was at fault to back off from allegations of foul play. In other
words, don't let them tar you with that darn conspiracy theory label because
when you try to peel it off your skin comes with it.

But conspiracy theories don't only play with the Generation X-Files crowd;
now they're scrutinized by the ever-more-credentialed, such as Dr. David Ray
Griffin, the author of The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the
Bush Administration and 9/11. Like Griffin, Jim Fetzer is a professor of
philosophy (at the University of Minnesota, Duluth) and he's polished his
philosopher's stone with three books on the death of JFK. Co-author Four
Arrows is an associate professor at Northern Arizona University. (Though the
authors fail to describe the division of duties, the interviews Arrows
conducts suggests he's the leg man.)

Applying the principles of philosophy to the crime, Fetzer claims that when
an investigator examining a hypothesis violates "the requirement of total
evidence," "special pleading"--intentionally selecting evidence to create a
biased result--occurs.

Excluding, and perhaps removing, evidence is exactly what official bodies
seem to have set out to do. Only an hour after first responders arrived on
the crash site at 11 a.m., the FBI materialized on the scene. In other
words, they would have departed from St. Paul at 9:30--when Wellstone's
plane was taking off.

After possibly spiriting away the cockpit voice recorder, the FBI announced
the crash wasn't the work of terrorists. Meanwhile, the National Traffic
Safety Board's lead investigator, Frank Hildrup, when asked why there was no
public hearing, responded that they were reserved for "high profile cases."

As for the cause, at first the NTSB blamed icy conditions. However, when
the plane didn't land at the Eveleth-Virginia (Minnesota) Airport, its
assistant manager, Gary Ulman, had no qualms about immediately taking off to
search for the crash site. Others, such as National Center for Atmospheric
Research meteorologist Ben Bernstein, downplayed the icing theory as well.

Besides, the Beechcraft King Air A-10 boasted an elaborate de-icing
system--you learn a lot about aviation in this book--such as pneumatic
de-icing boots that inflate and deflate to break ice from the leading edges
of the wing and tail. And when the King Air's maintenance records turned out
to be in order, mechanical problems, along with the icy conditions, were
disqualified as causes.

The NTSB then turned to the highly rated pilot, Richard Conry, a favorite
of Wellstone's who had passed an FAA flight check two days before. Sixty
seconds after his last conversation with the ground, during which he
reported no problems, the King Air began drifting south, whereas a normal
landing would have continued straight west. In other words, discounting his
turn in the opposite direction before crashing, the NTSB adopted the
conclusion that Conry and co-pilot Michael Guess's approach was too slow,
stalling the plane and causing it to crash.

But even if the pilots failed to check airspeed and altitude--an almost
unimaginable lapse--they would have been alerted by an alarm in plenty of
time to regain speed. In other words, by arriving at this conclusion the
NTSB demonstrated the same lack of concern for public scrutiny as the FBI
did when it arrived early at the crash scene. More likely, the authors
maintain, the King Air lost airspeed and altitude because the pilots were
unable to control it.

Understanding the crash, they believe, requires establishing why the King
Air suddenly stopped communicating. Another man on his way to the funeral,
driving within a couple blocks of the airport at the time of the crash
experienced otherworldly cell-phone interference. He reported hearing a
sound "between a roar and loud humming voice...oscillating...screeching and
humming noise."

Most responsible for narrowing the authors' search for a cause was the blue
smoke typical of electrical fires that streamed out of the King Air's
sheared fuselage for hours after the crash.

In an arresting passage, the authors cite a Time magazine article
describing microwave weapons the US is developing to knock out enemy
electronics. Supposedly they're capable of unleashing in an instant as much
power as the Hoover Dam cranks out in a day. The authors report, among other
accidents, an F-111 that crashed or aborted due simply to the radio
transmissions (electromagnetic pulses) of other US military aircraft.

Suddenly the idea of electronic-jamming equipment sending a decoy VOR
(landing guidance system) signal to the King Air becomes plausible. Obeying
instrumentation that's tricked into believing the plane is several degrees
off course, the pilot follows the signal straight into the ground.

Possible means mapped out, what about more specific motives than the
general pugnaciousness of this former wrestler's progressivism? First, at
the time of the crash the Republicans' Senate majority was in jeopardy
because Vermont's Jim Jeffords had bolted the party. In an attempt to
redress the balance, they threw all their support behind Norm Coleman,
Wellstone's opponent in the upcoming election. When Wellstone voted against
granting the president power to invade Iraq, his popularity surged.

Wellstone reported that before the Senate vote on Iraq, Dick Cheney had
warned him that bucking the administration could result in severe
consequences for both him and the state of Minnesota. Neither was the vice
president happy about the legislation Wellstone had introduced to improve
protection against asbestos poisoning. Cheney had left Halliburton in a
position to be sued by its insurer for asbestos claims staggering in their
potential for remuneration. Only his assumption of the vice presidency
granted him immunity from deposition.

After Wellstone's funeral, you may remember how Republicans claimed the
event was partisan, essentially garnering Democrats free campaign airtime.
This, of course, stood in contrast, to the heartfelt way the Republican
party grieved--by transferring money designated to fight Wellstone to
defeating Democratic Georgia Senator Max Cleland. Corporate America was
equally broken up: From the instant Wellstone's death was reported by
AP--the rise in corporate fortunes that a Republican Senate signified needed
no spelling out to investors--the Dow rose steadily.

By unraveling the conditions under which he died, Four Arrows and Jim
Fetzer have not only paid tribute to Paul Wellstone, they've brought to
light the facts surrounding yet another suspicious plane crash in a lineage
that extends back to Governor Mel Carnahan and Senators John Tower and Hale
Boggs.

Finally, let us recall the prescience Wellstone demonstrated in his
statement to the Senate on Iraq: "The United States should unite the world
against Saddam and not allow him to unite forces against us."