Sorry, Sny. Paranoid was the wrong choice of words. FWIW, I was using in the loose, informal sense, not the clinical one.
I can understand why Dan doesn't want to answer a whole lot of personal questions. Does Dan Rather tell you everything about his personal life? That's just not what journalists do. They tell stories about other people, keeping themselves out of it. In so doing, they also expose themselves to a lot of legal liability. Especially with a story like this that's so high stakes for so many people that the mainstream won't touch it with somebody else's press!
As to the whole story not being about Elan, well Elan didn't happen in a vacume. I never did understand the desire on the part of, not only Elan ppl, but also Kids ppl and Bethel ppl and a few others, to
want to be alone in this. You're not. As it turns out, Joe Ricci's life story is quite similar to Art Barker's.
The way I see it, the book tells some of the Elan story that you want told and does it in the context of the people who made it happen, coverd it up and how they got stinking rich in the process.
I think Dan's agenda is just the same as any publisher; he wants people to read the story. I just don't see any dark, sinister subplot here. I don't see any way that his hawking his book can possibly do anything but help your objectives.
I don't go lookin' for trouble. I just keep a little in a box should someone come by who is.
--Bill Warbis
