SIGHTINGS



Columbine Final Report:
An 'Amateur Warren
Commission Report'
From Joel Skousen <jskousen@enol.com>
World Affairs Brief http://www.joelskousen.com
5-20-00


 
The Jefferson County Sheriff Department's final report on the investigation of the Columbine High School shootings reads more like a high school drama production than an investigative document. The report, written by 3 women writers hired by the Sheriff's department, is not professional in either tone or approach. It makes wordy' emotional comments rather than stick to the facts. It tries overly hard to paint a confused, irrational picture of events so as to justify all the failures of authorities to intervene quickly to save lives. The writers comment and argue for one position only--that there were only two shooters--and yet the report systematically refuses to discuss any specific evidence that would allow a reader to make an independent judgment of any controversy. This report is pure propaganda. Like the multi-tome Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination' the report's entire purpose is to cover-up all evidence contrary to the desired lone assassins conclusion. What can't be covered up is omitted altogether or simply explained away as "misunderstandings by witness.
 
There are 15 lawsuits pending over government actions or inaction at Columbine, and the report is careful to evade the specific facts or evidence that the plaintiffs need to bring government and police officials to justice. I've have waded through most of it and it is my opinion that the report is noteworthy not by what is in it, but by what is explicitly absent. The report doesn't answer or explain:
 
· why it took SWAT teams more than 45 minutes to enter the school and 3 hours to reach the library. · why teacher Sanders and other injured students were not reached until hours after the shooting stopped. · why NATO units and a 2 star general were involved and how they happened to be in the area. · why students were pressured to change their stories to conform to the two-shooter theory · why there was a massive military presence at the Columbine memorial services months later.
 
 
The report goes out of its way to paint a detailed scenario that gives the impression of completeness. It is easy to do since there are so many trivial details that can be used to obscure more important ones. The report describes the initial confusion and bewilderment of law enforcement on the scene, claiming there were too many agencies, too many conflicting 911 reports, and not enough coordination. That may sound plausible, and certainly explains why they would wait for a unified SWAT team to arrive for the actual assault. But after the SWAT team arrives fairly quickly' we are given no credible explanation of why they waited and waited to enter. This is something they are trained to do without pre-planning. The reader cries out for answers and gets none. The report doesn't even bring up the question directly.
 
In the report's introductory remarks it uses a standard legal trick to justify its refusal to discuss details, saying this is still an "open investigation and "to preserve the privacy of witnesses who are not yet in the public eye, we have excluded certain names and details from this report. What an understatement. There is only one reason those witnesses are not yet in the public eye--because the authorities don't want them there. Just like the manipulated results of the TWA 800 investigation' over 80 witnesses to the missile attack were coerced and threatened into silence or into changing their stories. Many student witnesses have reported identical treatment at the hands of federal and state investigators. Clearly every official had their marching orders: to gather evidence that only harris and klebold were involved in the columbine massacre.
 
In May of 1999 Mark Taylor, a Columbine student injured in the shooting was still in the hospital. A friend came to visit and found Mark's mother rather upset. She said her son was getting death threats--someone is threatening to finish off the injured students and the rest of Columbine. She also said that so many Columbine students know of other assailants being involved that she sees no way the truth about this could be covered up. That assessment has proven to be very naive.
 
Internet reporter John Quinn of News Hawk, Inc (newshawk@iname.com) Tel: 707 984-7178 was one of the few able to penetrate the threat barriers and get one of the eye witness students to talk. Quinn's initial conversations with the parents of the student, Chris Whisher, indicated they were clearly afraid and said they didn't want him talking to their son. When Quinn called back to ask the parents another question' Chris himself answered the phone and seemed willing to talk. Chris told Quinn' "They were just shooting everywhere" He added that the suspect who shot at his group was wearing a black coat, sunglasses and a BERET. All the others who saw Klebold and Harris said they were wearing ear protectors and white and black T shirts, respectively. The surveillance cameras confirmed the T shirt apparel.
 
Chris told him that lots of students saw other shooters--as many as 7 or 8 at one time. He said he knew personally of a girl who was coerced into changing her testimony by Sheriffs investigators, and made to say that she had only seen Harris and Klebold. Quinn said Chris reverified that statement in another session and added that other friends of his had personally witnessed a group of 7-8 individuals in trenchcoats, with weapons, shooting in a different part of the school simultaneous to Harris and Klebold firing weapons elsewhere. Quinn asked whether his friend knew if some or all of these other shooters were students. He responded that only some were students. Chris himself told Quinn that he was later requestioned and pressured by investigators, who then tried to make a substantial effort to "help" Chris "understand how it may have only been Harris and Klebold" that he had seen at Columbine.
 
I reported last year in July how another witness was worked over by investigators to convince her that what she saw wasn't possible. Columbine High School art teacher Patti Nielson' wounded in the school attack, made unwitting statements that cast grave doubts on the official two- gunmen theory. Teacher Nielson and student Brian Anderson observed and were shot by what she said was a "MAN outside the school on the upper terrace using a semi-automatic pistol. She said he was dressed in black and was shooting a gun toward the parking lot. She yelled at him to stop because she "thought he was doing a dumb thing." She then said the man turned, grinned and shot at her. Describing him initially as "small she later recanted upon being told by officials who the shooters "really were and said, "I thought he was small, but I found out later he was pretty tall!" However, during the prior events, the teacher (trained to see details) continually referred to the assailant as a man' both during her 911 call and in other statements.
 
Despite all the harassment, there were numerous students who refused to be cowed by the pressure. The report tried to pass off these witnesses as an anomaly with this self-serving statement: "Despite the supporting evidence, both from ballistics and eyewitness accounts, that only two people, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were the gunmen on April 20, 1999, seven eyewitnesses remain firm in their account of another person with a gun that day. Naturally' the report denies us the specific testimony of these holdouts. In fact, they weren't just saying there was ONE other person' but multiple shooters. I,m sure they would have an interesting rebuttal to this report--something like "I can count, can't I??? TWA 800 witnesses to the missile kill were equally outraged when FBI agents kept trying to convince them that what they saw going UP must have, in fact been coming DOWN! There is a pattern to these cover-ups.
 
In conclusion #4 the report boldly proclaims, "Physical evidence does not indicate the presence of a third shooter. No known evidence exists that anyone had prior knowledge of the killer's plans. Wrong on both counts. Here are the facts on the physical evidence:
 
· Art teacher Patti Nielson was shot by a man from the outside of the school. The bullet penetrated a sliding glass door. That's PHYSICAL EVIDENCE of a third shooter since Harris and Klebold were already inside the school and had entered from the opposite and lower side of the building. Curiously' no mention was made of this glass with the exterior penetration--a convenient omission.
 
· Jefferson County District Court Judge Henry Nieto on May 28, 1999 refused to release autopsy reports on victims of the Columbine High School shootings, saying "the community" would suffer substantial harm if the reports were released. This order conveniently included the bodies of Klebold and Harris, so we have no way to independently ascertain the claim that they shot themselves. Once again' no physical evidence exists because it is hidden by the court.
 
· The FBI's notorious ballistics lab did all the certification that all bullets came from Harris and Klebold's weapons. Of course, there was no verifiable evidence trail produced to prove this assertion. A good evidence trail would have non-FBI autopsy physicians tagging each bullet as it came from each body and separately by more different independent labs. None of this evidentiary trail exists. Even if it did, the FBI has been known to swap bullets at will, as they did in the Oswald-JFK case trying to shore up the lone assassin theory. The government had JFK's body altered enroute to Bethesda Naval Hospital to remove other bullet fragments and coerced the Navy Doctor to change his autopsy report to match the altered results. Similar coercion took place in the Ron Brown autopsy and with Vince Foster's murder. Incidentally' the Supreme Court weighed in this week on the side of cover-up by refusing to allow Vince Foster's autopsy photos to be released to the public.
 
Here are the facts about the report's claim that no one had "prior knowledge of the killer's plans.
 
· The report conveniently mentions the two video tapes of Klebold and Harris talking among themselves about their bombs and plans, but fails to mention the pre-enactment video made by the Trenchcoat Mafia in 1997. This video taped a practice run by the Trenchcoat Mafia of this massacre in the actual halls of Columbine High School. True, Klebold and Harris weren't in this video, but the cameraman was none other than the son of FBI special agent Fusilier, the FBI psychologist who is a paid FBI investigation for the Columbine tragedy. The young Fusilier was a Columbine student at the time and a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia.
 
Two of the participants in the pre-enactment video were the Brown brothers, who were at Columbine during the shooting, and who knew Klebold and Harris. John Quinn pointed out something suspicious in the Brown brother's testimony about their involvement during the massacre. Quinn said, "It had previously been reported that Brook's older brother was inside the building and this fact was known by the elder Brooks when he claims he was warned away from the school by Harris. Brooks uses this alibi to shore up his case that he would never have been involved in any way with the massacre. Another testified that Brook's brother was on the stairway and was fired at directly by Harris but not hit. What's interesting however is that in their appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show on May 20, 1999, it is the older Brown boy who said he was in the cafeteria when the shooting broke out and he never saw either Harris or Klebold directly!. These are highly contradictory versions and indicate someone is not telling the truth.
 
CONCLUSION: Whenever multiple agency of government join together in a massive cover-up of this nature, it always points to a broad conspiracy involving media, federal agencies, local police, and judges. Naturally it can't be controlled except from the power base of the federal government. Choosing Colorado for an operation like this was no accident. I have detailed before some of the evidence that the Denver area is heavily controlled by multiple black operations of government. The CIA owns and controls banks, airlines, S&Ls, Real estate companies and lawyers. It also has a black helicopter operation working out of the old Buckley Auxiliary airfield. In addition' there is highly surpressed evidence of a huge secret underground facility within the new Denver International Airport--which many supect was the real cause of the massive cost overruns and delays experienced in construction. Worst of all, the government controls many federal and state judges in Colorado and particularly in the Denver district. It was no accident that the Tim McVeigh trial was moved to Denver.
 
My take on Columbine is that, much like the OKC bombing, this was a dark side operation to accelerate an evil political agenda. The Murrah building was bombed in concert with undiscovered agent provocateurs (John Doe #1 and 2) to help the media spin this as an act of terrorism by anti-government conservatives. Columbine's purpose was to engender a massive outpouring of propaganda for and in behalf of gun control. Both have been only partially successful. Sadly' this doesn't mean they will give up, only that the carnage is not yet concluded.
 

Correction and additional information
 
FrASom Joel Skousen <jwqw
 
To World Affairs Brief list:
 
Part of my report on Columbine had an unclear reference to the Brown brothers. In the following text, "Brooks" is the name of the elder Brown brother. Also see the important link below.
 
"Two of the participants in the pre-enactment video were the Brown brothers, who were at Columbine during the shooting, and who knew Klebold and Harris. John Quinn pointed out something suspicious in the Brown brother,s testimony about their involvement during the massacre. Quinn said, "It had previously been reported that Brook,s older brother was inside the building and this fact was known by the elder Brooks when he claims he was warned away from the school by Harris. Brooks uses this alibi to shore up his case that he would never have been involved in any way with the massacre. Another testified that Brook,s brother was on the stairway and was fired at directly by Harris but not hit. What's interesting however is that in their appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show on May 20, 1999, it is the older Brown boy who said he was in the cafeteria when the shooting broke out and he never saw either Harris or Klebold directly!. These are highly contradictory versions and indicate someone is not telling the truth"
 
Also for some fascinating additional backup info, go to the following site:
 
http://columbine.home.dhs.org/.S


 
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