Suicides and the Bush family

Here's a list I originally generated on our political sister site: This Century Sucks, but that is perfectly suited for TFC. A short list of people whose lives intersected with the Bush family that committed suicide:

• Lets hope "Jeff Gannon" doesn't check into any hotels, because one of the key members of the first Bush White House male prostitute scandal committed suicide in a Boston hotel 5 months after the story broke.
  
  

  Spence openly boasted of working with both the CIA and ranking members of the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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  "The sex? That's done all the time," a former Bush economic adviser told the press. "If a foreign diplomat wants a companion, the State Department provides it. It doesn't matter if it's a man or woman. They have a special fund set up for that." What the unnamed adviser did not say was that such services were provided not as a courtesy to the dignitary, but as a way to compromise and control. Allegations quietly arose that the callboy ring, and Spence's parties, were part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation. Spence's Washington mansion was said to be overflowing with surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and microphones and an abundance of two-way mirrors. It was also alleged that cocaine flowed freely at Spence's parties, and that he could have been involved in bringing drugs in from El Salvador.
  
  The Spence story never really registered on the national media's radar screen. Despite being a largely Republican scandal, it was completely ignored by such pillars of the purportedly liberal press as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The story soon disappeared entirely and Washington and the media proceeded to pretend as though nothing had ever happened. According to a Washington Times reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered up. Some 20,000 documents pertaining to the case were sealed by court order and the U.S. Attorney's office issued a gag order on the release of information. By the time that Craig Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel less than five months after the story first broke, he had been all but forgotten. He had earlier told a friend: "I may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won't be."

  
  
• Speaking of cocaine and the CIA, Gary Webb was an investigative reporter who linked the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angels. He died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. Yes he shot himself in the head more than once.
  
  
• Mark Lombardi drew pictures demonstrating the links between Bush, James Bath, and the bin Laden family and many other favorites of the conspiracy crowd. He committed suicide.
  
  
• Let's not forget Hatfield who committed suicide in a hotel room. He wrote the book "Fortunate Son" which alleged that the reason Bush "volunteered" for community service in the early seventies was to erase a cocaine bust from his records.
  
  
• Investigative reporter Danny Casolaro committed suicide in a Hotel room in 1991. He was working in a conspiracy "theory of everything" called "The Octopus" that linked the CIA, October Surprise, BCCI, and pretty much everything else.
  
  
• Margie Schoedinger was suing Bush for sexual assault. She committed suicide on September 22, 2003.
  
  
• Raymond Lemme was an investigator for the Florida Department of Transportation who was investigating claims of voter fraud (the article explains why FDOT would be involved). He committed suicide in a hotel.

Nothing to add really. There are troubled people in the world and the troubles of the world can be too hard to bare. That said, that's quite a list.

After I originally posted this list the excellent, but now on hiatus, site The Free Speech Zone added this suicide:

• To this list I would add David Kelly, a UN weapons inspector who came back from Iraq to report that there were no WMD. He predicted he would be "found dead in the woods" and he was correct. Police called it a suicide but paramedics questioned that.