Write about the CIA and drugs, end up dead. You may recall Webb�s 1996 series in the San Jose Mercury about how the CIA sold coke in Los Angeles and used the money to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Even so, he had a difficult time keeping a job, mostly because editors and publishers are a timid lot these days.
�Webb was found Friday morning at his home in Sacramento County, dead of an apparent suicide. Moving-company workers called authorities after discovering a note posted on his front door that read, �Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance,�� reports the Associated Press . �Webb died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Sacramento County coroner�s office.�
A post on the Indybay forum notes:
Four Bush biographers, Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield, Danny Casalaro, and now Gary Webb�all �suicide� victims. What are the odds all of these people actually committing suicide?
� Examining the male U.S. suicide rate for recent years, we can extrapolate a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000 people, or 0.017%. The odds of 4 specific, male biographers committing suicide would be the 4th power of 17/100000, or 8.3521 4.913 x 10^-17� roughly 1 chance 10,000,000,000,000,000. About as good a definition of impossible as you can get. A person would stand a better chance of playing the Canadian lottery 6/49 exactly twice in one�s lifetime and winning ther grand jackpot BOTH TIMES! (That is, picking 6 numbers out of 49 possible numbers and matching all 6 numbers out of 6 random draws, on 2 separate occasions, and having only purchased two Canadian lottery tickets ever.) This calculation should be regarded as a conservative estimate: the actual odds against such a �coincidence� would be much greater. For example, if any of the biographers were female, the odds would be even greater.
Now that Bush has his �mandate,� we will probably see other critics fall victim to accidents and suicides. Crime families usually deal harshly with their enemies�and so does the CIA.