Rohrabacher went in drag to solve already solved RFK assassination?
While the nation struggles with two wars, financial disasters, devastating hurricanes, regular political sex and ethics scandals, ridiculously priced gas and global warming, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) has been busy attempting to singlehandedly solve the already solved 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
According to a September 25, 2008, Pasadena Weekly article by Carl Kozlowski, Rohrabacher believes that the Los Angeles Police Department has for 40 years hidden the fact that Sirhan Sirhan, the lone man convicted of shooting Kennedy, worked as part of a "real conspiracy" of Arabs.
Why? Well, Rohrabacher--a rabid right-wing Republican who has bragged to me and other reporters about his, uh, longtime personal ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)--claims he was in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles for a party at the same time Kennedy was murdered in the kitchen.
Ponder that admission for a moment and then consider the congressman's incredible tale.
"While I was walking into that party, somebody ran past me and bounced off me," he told Kozlowski. "The guy was wrestled to the floor in front on me by either security guards of police and he was hauled out right in front of me . . . The guy looked exactly like Sirhan Sirhan, a young Arab-looking guy. Was the guy I saw Sirhan or somebody else? Either way, that's a big deal because nowhere does it ever mention another Arab being there that night, nor does it mention that he was under police custody."
In early 2007--39 years after the killing and right around the time that he blamed global warming on dinosaur flatulence, Rohrabacher decided to solve his murder mystery for "the Kennedy family."
Anyone familiar with Rohrabacher knows this story is now headed for unadulterated, wacky bliss.
At some point, Sirhan sent Summer Reese, one of his lawyers, a letter telling her that "a Diana was coming to see him."
Reese told Kozlowski, "Sirhan didn't know it was the congressman because his visitor was presented as a woman."
Rohrabacher. Undercover. In drag. Using the name Diana?
Perhaps this sheds light on why ex-Congressman Bob Dornan (R-Garden Grove) liked to call Rohrabacher "a fruitcake."
What were you doing at Corcoran State Prison in California, Diana/Dana?
"I went to see [Sirhan] specifically because I believe he didn't act alone and that the full story of Bobby Kennedy's assassination has not been known," he said. "I would like Sirhan Sirhan to finally, at long last, level with the Kennedy family and the American people, whether to clear his soul as part of his Christian beliefs or try to set the record straight."
Reese told the Pasadena Weekly that once the congressman got face to face with Sirhan (was it for the--cue eerie organ music here--second time?), Rohrabacher "repeatedly badgered him to admit he did the killing."
But Diana/Dana, why did you need him to admit to a crime he'd been convicted of four decades ago?
An answer might be found in this fact: In the 1990s, Rohrabacher was the lone congressman to shill for the Taliban, claiming that the "liberal media" had unfairly portrayed the group as anti-woman and uncivilized while they harbored Osama Bin Laden and the men in Afghanistan who plotted the 9-11 attacks.
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J Edgar says:
It is a good thing Oswald is dead.But there's always Roswell and Area 51 for you Diana/Dana!
Posted on Tuesday, Sep. 30 2008 @ 3:14PM
Mary says:
Mr. Rohrabacher is a proud American and Vietnam War hero who has guided US military generals on how to win in Iraq and Afghanistan. You peopple are sick.
Posted on Tuesday, Sep. 30 2008 @ 8:39PM
Ethel Mertz says:
"Mr. Rohrabacher is a proud American" doesn't mean he isn't whacked. Vote this guy out of office!
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 6:26AM
A real Vet says:
Dana Rohrabacher is not a Vietnam war hero. He avoided the draft with student deferments and a dubious medical claim.
He's another chickenhawk.
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 8:49AM
Joyce Miller says:
You obviously don't have to pass an IQ test to be a congressman/woman/person.
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 11:42AM
Chris Caesar says:
Dana Rohrabacher did not fight in Vietnam.
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 11:43AM
Sgt. Tim says:
The closest Dana Rohrabacher gets to advising a general on anything is when he pours his General Mills cereal into a bowl in the morning.
I'm sick of coward politicians who didn't have the courage to fight for this country but act so tough when they get beyond draft age.
This guy Rohrabacher is a punk or worse.
Posted on Wednesday, Oct. 1 2008 @ 9:54PM
Vern Nelson says:
Pretty sure Mary was joking (I hope)
You should really check out the original story, it's got more gory details: http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/a_tale_of_two_sirhans/6414/
What's especially gross is that "Diana" (Dana's female alterego) gained Sirhan's trust to get the interview, by pretending to be a human rights worker concerned with his conditions in solitary confinement (where he's been for his own protection since 9/11)
Given what we know about Dana's sadistic glee over the abuse of Arab detainees in general, we can only imagine the belly laughs he and his cohorts had before and after the grilling.
Posted on Thursday, Oct. 2 2008 @ 12:46PM
Vern Nelson says:
I tried to post a link to the original Pasadena Weekly story - maybe that's why my comment didn't go thru? Anyway it contains even more gory details.
What was especially gruesome to me was that "Diana" (Dana's female persona) impersonated a human rights worker concerned about the conditions of Sirhan's solitary confinement, to gain his permission for the interview. (He's been in solitary for his own protection since 9/11)
Given what we know of Dana's sadistic glee over the abuse of Arab detainees in general, one can only imagine the belly laughs he and his cohorts had before and after the grilling.
(PS. I'm pretty sure Mary #2 was joking. I hope.)
Posted on Thursday, Oct. 2 2008 @ 12:51PM
AnonHB says:
"Rohrabacher’s Democratic challenger, Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook, had been skeptical of some of the features of the proposed bailout and said she was further angered by some of the additions to it in the Senate. But she ultimately said she would have reluctantly voted yes if she were in Congress."
http://hbindependent.com/articles/2008/10/04/top_stories/hbi-bailout100908.txt
At least Rohrabacher voted against the bailout. Debbie Cook is more then happy to give taxpayer money to wall street.
Posted on Sunday, Oct. 5 2008 @ 4:08AM
Lisa Pease says:
1. There was a second man apprehended and handcuffed at the hotel that night. His name was Michael Wayne (also spelled Wien). He claimed he was running from the room to find a phone, until he was asked that question on a lie detector. He said "no," on the tape of the session, but his answer was recorded as "yes" and the matter was considered closed.
2. Of course it was a conspiracy. There provably at least four more bullets fired in the pantry than the LAPD could account for. The LAPD came up with a scenario for how eight bullets could have caused 12 points of entry - bullets bounced out of one person and into another, according to the LAPD's scenario. Kennedy alone was shot four times, with 2 bullets recovered from his body. FIVE other people were wounded, and bullets were recovered from each. And since three holes in the ceiling mandated at least one went in and didn't come back out, those were the eight bullets the LAPD would acknowledge. But the FBI photographed - and labeled as "bullet holes" - four additional holes in the pantry doorframe - two in the left door frame, and two in the center divider. I have the FBI's photos and captions, and a copy of the LAPD's letter pleading to the FBI to get them to reconsider that label. (The FBI never did retract the ID of those holes as "bullet holes.")
Some have said that Vincent DiPierro, a waiter in the pantry, claimed to have made those holes. But I talked to Vince and showed him the photos from the FBI, and he said those weren't the holes he had made.
So laugh and pretend conspiracies never happen. But all that does is show one's ignorance of the actual facts of the case.
Posted on Monday, Oct. 6 2008 @ 2:28PM
R. Scott Moxley says:
Dear Lisa Pease: Even if I assume that everything you've stated is true, the idea of Dana Rohrabacher--a right wing, blabbering loon even when he's consuming non-alcoholic beverages--pretending he can solve the 1968 RFK assassination is, well, worth quite a few hearty laughs. You must not know much about our self-proclaimed "surfin' congressman." By the way, DR doesn't think the extra bullet holes that you've mentioned are meaningful. . .
Posted on Tuesday, Oct. 7 2008 @ 9:44AM