04.09.06
Pellicano and the Feds
Just wanted to share some musings from a veteran LAPD officer about the Anthony Pellicano case:
“You know what is kind of interesting. All the things about Pellicano were talked about in hushed tones 5….10 years ago. Everyone knew he was an asshole, hell I even heard about him and I’m a zero, all except the feds for who he did work for. Isn’t it funny how the feds come on the tail end of things like this after all the carnage and damage he was allowed to perpetrate, just like 9-11. The feds are like the Highway Patrol, where are they when you need them? I could just go on and on. The more you read about them the less you will like them, just like Pellicano. You may quote me.”
My friend’s email is bothering me, despite my morning run, especially in light of the fact that Pellicano did work regularly for the federal government since the late ’70s. Albeit the Los Angeles media’s positive bias towards Pellicano certainly didn’t facilitate the unearthing of nasty details about the man and neither did his many friends in local law enforcement besides just Mark Arneson. But why was the federal government using Pellicano so very much as an expert practically up until his incarceration? As recently as 2001 Pellicano was hired to analyze the FBI’s audio tapes of former Ku Klux Klansmen in the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black school girls. Don’t they have anyone more skilled working there than Michael Brown lately?
There’s also that bit about Hilary Clinton’s association to Pellicano in the Bill sex-gate scandals. Not so much for the fact that the powers that were back in the 90’s tried to hush the opposition (just look at the news for the past few days on President Bush) but for the fact that they hired Pellicano for that task. Why did our former first couple turn to a high school drop out and a two bit thug from the South side of Chicago for protection of their vital interests? Couldn’t they get better?
As long as I’m fixating on this, how did Pellicano in 1978 get $300,000 to finance his own analysis of the McGruder tapes that were then submitted and accepted (though never requested) by the Select Committee on Assassinations. Why did the committee ever even listen to him, let alone take Pellicano seriously enough that his analysis helped definitely solve that only one shooter was involved in the JFK assassination? Why was Pellicano the sole expert allowed to testify that that crucial 18.5 minutes of Nixon’s conversation on the Watergate tapes had been “accidentally erased” by Rosemary Woods? After all, all Pellicano had done to that time of note was find Mike Todd’s missing remains for Elizabeth Taylor.
This whole Pellicano mess could really get a whole lot uglier. It’s a damn shame that Fitzgerald is tied up with that Plame business right now. Wonder if he has a brother…
