Flap over the Letters
Tom Colbert is certainly getting his money's worth of publicity with his flap about the FBI releasing the so-called "I Knew From the Start that I Would Never Be Caught" letter. I have received numerous phone calls and emails from friends asking if I've heard of the news. Then today when I came home from the dentist there was a phone message from the "Morning Dose" cable TV show wanting a SKYPE interview. So we talked.
But Snowmman found this letter several years ago - at the NY Times and LA Times - and Colbert has expanded that to include the Washington Post and Seattle Times. I agree, this letter and all the others are bogus.
But what is most interesting about the letters is Letter #3 and the action of Al Di.
For those interested, all of these issues are discussed in my book, pages 255-267. I wonder when Colbert is gonna read it.
Wrong thread Chemosabbe.
Colbert says the letter proves there was an FBI conspiracy to cover up and protect Cooper. And I thought Tom Kaye was hasty in jumping to conclusions. The letter proves nothing, period. Colbert's claim about Rackstraw -- well the FBI gave him maybe 10 seconds before telling him nada, plus the ridiculous claim about the Cooper goods found across the road from Tina Bar, at Vancouver Lake's man-made island. Colbert is passing himself off as the Cooper Mystery Go-To guy now, but his claims so far have been really out there, some even ridiculous. Yes, his dogged determination to get files released via the FOIA is commendable, but his claims -- well, I don't know...... The letter proves nothing, he says it proves everything. Really? Ridiculous.
Yet Colbert seems unwilling to come here and defend his claims, and engage in meaningful discussion with us here. Why not? I can guess....
Why 14 months, by the way? People who have not much time to live say 6 months, a year -- it's usually rounded off to a nice round number. What terminal disease makes it possible to predict death so precisely? Suicide? Not only that, the letter just doesn't sound right to me, it seems contrived - to be sure all the points that need to be covered are covered.
Meyer