Posner protests: forensics are too much with us.
When the sermon is weak, pound on the pulpit.
When you lack the facts, argue the law; lacking both, stipulate Oswald as the lone gunman, Case Closed.
We have Harold Weisberg interviewing Malcolm Perry who twice describes the throat wound with the collar of bruising "as they always are"--
--how exactly then did the holographic false defector in the Kabuki kubicle shoot the president in the front from behind
Gerald Posner was a house guest of Harold Weisberg (Case Open) ignoring fifty file cabinets of FOIA data in an a priori cherry picking op
Bethesda x-ray technician Jerroll Custer deposed by ARRB counsel Jeremy Gunn provided an insight on the throat wound:
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[FONT=&]Douglas Horne, Inside the Assassinations Record Review Board, Volume II, Chapter Five: The Autopsy X-Rays, pages 530-2:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer Examines the X-Rays of the Body[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The noteworthy highlights of Custer's review of the x-rays of the body was Jeremy's attempt to see whether Custer could identify metal fragments near any of the cervical vertebrae, which Custer had mentioned earlier in the deposition.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Jeremy showed Custer x-ray no. 9, a view of the chest prior to removal of the lungs, and the exchange went as follows:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Previously, you referred to there being metal fragments in the cervical area. Are you able to identify any metal fragments in this x-ray?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Not in this film.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Does this film include a view or an exposure that would have included such metal fragments?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: No sir.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Where would the metal fragments be located?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Further up in there. This region.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Can youand you're pointing to?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Up into the, I'd say, C3/C4 region.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Jeremy asked Custer to review x-rays no. 8 and 10, of the right shoulder and chest, and left shoulder and chest, respectivelyboth are images following the removal of the heart and lungs. Custer could not identify metal fragments in either x-ray.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Later, Jeremy asked Custer the following questions:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Now, you had raised, previously in the deposition. . .the possibility of some metal fragments in the C3/C4 range.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: I noticed I didn't see that.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: You didn't see any x-rays that would be inthat would include the C3/C4 area?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: No sir.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Are you certain that you took x-rays that included theincluded C3 and C4?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Yes, sir. Absolutely.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: How many x-rays did you take that would have included that?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Just one. And that was all that was necessary, because it showedright there.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: And what, as best you recall, did it show?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: A fragmentation of a shell in and around that circular exitthat area. Let me rephrase that. I don't want to say "exit," because I don't know whether it was exit or entrance. But all I can say, there was bullet fragmentations [sic] around that areathat opening.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Around C3/C4?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Right.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn" And do you recall how many fragments there were?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Not really. There was enough. It was very prevalent.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Did anyone make any observations about metal fragments in the C3/C4 area?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: I did. And I was told to mind my own business. That's where I was shut down again.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: You have, during the course of this deposition, identified three x-rays that you are quite certain that you took, but don't appear in this collection. Are there any others that you can identify as not being included?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: That's the only three that come to my mind right now; the two tangential views, and the A-P cervical spine.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Okay.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: Can I add something to that?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gunn: Sure.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Custer: In my own opinion, I do believe, basically, the reason why they are not here is because they showed massive amounts of bullet fragments.[/FONT]
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That's the type of forensics Posner finds uncomfortable.
In fact, Posner would probably find the president died of natural causes, as the plagiarist did in the death of Carlos Ghigliotti:
A laser expert found dead under mysterious circumstances after he claimed the FBI fired shots in the Waco, Tex., siege succumbed to a massive heart attack, investigative journalist Gerald Posner said yesterday. An autopsy that may be released as early as today showed that 42-year-old Carlos Ghigliotti's arteries were completely clogged and that his death was completely natural," said Posner, quoting an unnamed source close to the investigation. "This, without any question, ends the conspiracy speculation about Mr. Ghigliotti's death being part of a plot over Waco," said Posner, who was working on a Waco story for Talk magazine. Ghigliotti, who was hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape of the siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots in the April 19, 1993, assault that left some 80 Branch Davidians dead from fire and bullet wounds. He was scheduled to testify before special counsel John Danforth, whom Attorney General Janet Reno appointed to oversee a probe of the Waco disaster, but he never got the chance. His decomposed body was found in his Laurel, Md., home April 28. Ghigliotti had been dead for several weeks. Ghigliotti's death gave rise to a number of conspiracy theories, many of them on the Internet, which suggested Ghigliotti was murdered to silence him. A probe by a British company subsequently exonerated the FBI, saying that flashes seen on a video were sunlight reflecting off debris, not gunfire as claimed in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news...z2Ul0TC5cy
Finishing up Richard Belzer and David Wayne, Hit List, building on the work of Craig Roberts and John Armstrong, suggesting the odds are astronomical that so many key witnesses died as their turn to testify came up.
Posner defended Ahmed Walid Karzai when the latter was accused of being a CIA tool and drug lord. Karzai was assassinated. Case Closed.
Nothing to see here, says Posner; pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Stop all this forensics, says the man who, with all the king's horses and men and CGI cartoons, couldn't prove the Magic Bullet Went To So Many Places and Came Home to the Archives with Its Virginity Intact.
