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[โ€“] inkrifle@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then prove it instead of just speculating.

The proof we do have is that Webb became extremely depressed because of all the media slander, his loss of credibility as a journalist from his peers and the general population and ultimately, the resignation from his position, inability to find a job, and loss of his mortgage and house a week prior to his death.

What we have zero proof of is why the CIA would want to kill someone that didn't break the significant story in the first place, was already widely discredited and shunned, and EIGHT years after the news had died down.

Also, it is not impossible to have a suicide with two bullets. It happens rarely when the first shot fails to be immediately lethal. Considering the first bullet went through his left cheek, it probably didn't kill him. It was the second shot that hit an artery.

On top of that, Webb's own family firmly believe it was a suicide and they would appreciate it if you would treat it as such as they knew him a lot more than you did.

[โ€“] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I'll get right on that, 21 years after his death. I was 9 years old at the time.

And surely, the CIA has never ever had someone killed under suspicious circumstances...

Or engineered said circumstances...

Or blamed an obvious murder on suicide...