The murder of former Clinton White House intern Mary Caitrin "Caity" Mahoney at the Starbucks on Wisconsin Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC, is considered to be important enough that Snopes.com has it as the first one to "debunk" in the Clinton Body Count, ahead of Vince Foster, which is #2. The celebrated author and lawyer David Baldacci had a TV documentary in 2006, Murder by the Book, perpetuating the myth that the petty criminal Carl Derek Cooper, who was clearly railroaded by what passes for our justice system, was the sole guilty party. It is also of considerable interest that Bradley Garrett of the FBI was the “lead investigator” in the case. He was also right on the ground floor of the FBI cover-up of the Vince Foster murder and in the Chandra Levy case, which has now been reopened. The dubious methods by which the Levy and Mahoney case convictions were obtained were very similar.
Mahoney was a political live wire, a co-founder of a Baltimore organization known as the Lesbian Avengers and a former Clinton White House intern. Joseph Farah has written, "I have reports from sources close to [Monica] Lewinsky quoting her as saying she feared ending up like 'Caity' Mahoney."
The long article that I published on August 31, 1999, (now reformatted below with updated links) takes you through most of the hapless Cooper’s railroading, a railroading that enjoyed the very active participation of the capital’s two newspapers, as you can see. The four subsequent articles linked to at the end take you up to the beginning of Cooper’s short trial in which, like James Earl Ray in the Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination, he pleaded guilty so they would not execute him.
One of the reasons I stopped writing about it at that point was that there really wasn’t anything more to say. Another was that the day after I put up “Starbucks Surveillance” I received a terse, chilling, anonymous email threat to me and my family, which I reported to the police and to the principal writers on the story, Bill Miller at The Washington Post and Jim Keary at The Washington Times. That was the end of that, until this past Saturday night when I discovered “The Mysterious Murder of Mary Mahoney“ on the web site of Little Dixie Dynamite. Noting that a commenter had linked to my “Starbucks Fallback Fall Guy,” in the comments I attempted to go public for the first time with the threat that I received, including the text. As I write this, I am told by the site that my comment is still “awaiting moderation.” One might think that they are waiting for hell to freeze over. Stay tuned.
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