07-07-2012, 03:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2012, 06:52 PM by Albert Doyle.)
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Who the heck was looking for him?
Everyone else considered him nothing but a witness. So you use his testimony from newspapers or the trasncript.
It was only Damore and Janney who got this idea about him being the actual hit man.
So they have him at a CIA safehouse which returns letters from journalists.
My good man Jim, this still doesn't identify Mr Mitchell. Sorry, but the way it works is as long as Mitchell remains unidentified Janney's contention remains viable. The point stands, no matter what the situation, as long as a major witness in such a trial remains unidentified the questions about him remain unresolved. Frankly I find it unusual that no one can identify him. And the more controversy builds up around him, as it is doing, the more the lack of identification becomes meaningful.
Sure you could accuse Janney of committing the logical fallacy of making up anything he feels and inserting it into that void, however there's too much of a covert footprint here to ignore that is too similar to other CIA hits.
As for the timeline, Janney says the cops started their walk at 12:40. If we are generous and allow Janney the maximum of ten minutes for the interview of the people on the railroad tracks we are at 12:50 at most. Somehow Janney stretches this to possibly 1 o'clock. How does he figure that? The most we can stretch that to is 12:50 - no more. If we are generous again and allow the full 20 minutes for the next mile we are at 1:10. If I'm reading Janney right he backdates the Crump arrest to his first encounter with officer Warner at around 1 or 1:05. So he's trying to say the black man officer Sylvis saw poke his head out of the bushes happened after Crump was under the control of Warner. Hmm, the times are close enough that I'm not sure.