Dead Cooperative Federal Witness

Dead Cooperative Federal Witness

I haven't had much to say about the continuing lawsuit asking Barack Obama to produce his original Hawaii birth certificate, because nothing is really happening on it. Obama and the DNC keep stonewalling, spending money--rather than spend $19.95 to have the vault copy Overnight Mailed to the lawyers who have filed the suits. I guess spending close to a million dollars to keep it secret makes economic sense--although you have to wonder why.

But what makes this mildly interesting, especially if you are one of those who are prone to imagining deep, dark conspiracies--is this item that came out of the April 19, 2008 Washington Times. You may recall that several employees of the Department of State started snooping (without authorization) into the passport records of Clinton, Obama, and McCain last year--and got in a pile of trouble over it (as well they should).

A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.

Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, who had been cooperating with a federal investigators, was found late Thursday night slumped dead inside a car, in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in Northeast, said Cmdr. Michael Anzallo, head of the department's Criminal Investigations Division.

Cmdr. Anzallo said a police officer was patrolling the neighborhood when gunshots were heard, then Lt. Harris was found dead inside the vehicle, which investigators would describe only as a blue car.

Emergency medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

City police said they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with federal investigators.

"We don't have any information right now that connects his murder to that case," Cmdr. Anzallo said.

This may just be a wild coincidence. The District of Criminals is very close to a liberal's highest aspirations, and as a result, life is cheap there. You would think that the need to clarify that there was no connection to these events would make an investigation into his murder of interest. But other than this sad memorial to him, and other web pages linking to that same Washington Times article--nothing!

UPDATE: Here's an article explaining a bit more, indicating that Harris was involved in credit card fraud and perhaps drug trafficking related to the passport office improprieties, which explains why he was a cooperative witness for the government. With the crowd that he would have been involved with, there's a simple and obvious explanation for what got him killed.