I didn't know the thing about Bill Murphy...as has been said...You can't make this stuff up!

But I did listen to the whole thing as soon as I got it... and it was a shocker to say the least! I called Eric on the telephone as soon as I got up in the morning... and he told me that shortly after he posted the interview, his website had been hacked and about the last third of the interview had been deliberately erased from one of ISP's servers. It was the part where Andrew Maguire and GATA's Adrian Douglas started talking about things like "fraud", "treason" and "financial terrorism". As you are aware, dear reader, Maguire and his wife were the victims of a hit-and-run on Friday... the day after his testimony was read to the CFTC hearing in Washington on Thursday. And as I said yesterday in my comments about his hit-and-run accident... it comes right out of a James Bond thriller... police chase, complete with helicopters. Britain's finest got their man... but will he talk!

This reminds me of what happened to GATA chairman Bill Murphy a couple of years after the organization was founded... and I remember the incidents well. Within the space of six weeks, Bill got beaten up, his website hacked, and his car stolen. His car turned up the day after his insurance company paid up... no damage to the car, money in the console was still there, and his cashmere sweater was still in the back seat.