From the "Stop and smell the WTF?"
files:
Federal nuclear watchdogs and members of Congress are seeking answers after a former security director at a western Michigan nuclear plant gave a bizarre series of interviews to Esquire magazine in which he claimed to be a hired assassin.
William E. Clark, who until recently was security chief at the Palisades nuclear power plant near South Haven on Lake Michigan, told the magazine for an article in its June edition that he had worked as a government assassin, killing people in Vietnam, New Orleans and Iraq.
New Orleans?
Clark claims he
worked - and killed - for Blackwater.
He has kept stuff, over the years, because he knows that nobody will believe him. He has kept the stubs from all the boarding passes, the keys from all the hotel rooms. There are hundreds of them, and he keeps them in thick wads and piles. He has kept a business card for one of his aliases, Zeke Senega, a reporter for The Irish Times in Dublin. He has kept his passports, including the diplomatic one that was required for the work he did for the State Department. And he has photographs.
Seemed like a Chuck Barris thing at first. Not so sure now; claiming to be CIA is so cliche - but Blackwater?
And it's kinda odd that the article in the
Detroit News doesn't even mention Blackwater, just saying that Clark calls himself a "government assassin." Doesn't that make it a substantially different story credibility-wise? At least the feel of credibility, which I think is important.
We'll see.
