John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by ufmace on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:17PM (#27610502)

The timing does make me suspicious. I'm generally willing to believe he was "suicided" by some shadowy conspiracy. But if that's what happened, why would they do it on the day his extradition was approved?

If our secret ninja assassins wanted to take him out because he Knew Too Much or whatever, they could do that any old time. Why do it on the day his extradition was approved instead of some random day 6 months ago or something.

On the other hand, it seems much more reasonable that a man whose extradition to the US to face Federal Criminal charges was just approved might suddenly decide to kill himself rather than deal with that.

Unless of course the Secret Ninja Assassins knew that and decided to kill him today to make it look less suspicious. But then we're really getting into the weeds of conspiracy, where any crazy thing we could dream up might have happened.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by austhrow743 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:57PM (#27612599)

If he got murdered the connection to the extradition hearing to me would be that people are afraid he will talk and they're less confident in their ability to get to him in a US prison than a Spanish one.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by dontblink on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:34PM (#27610723)

Or they could only get too him in a Spanish prison and they ran out of time.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Mirioron on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:23PM (#27611844)

Wouldn't be unusual for the US. Gitmo is specifically not on US soil to avoid dealing with US laws.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:30PM (#27611914)

> Gitmo is specifically not on US soil to avoid dealing with US laws.

“Camp Delta at Gitmo is used...” is more accurate here than “Gitmo is specifically not on US soil...”; Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950) was not a motivating factor in securing the lease at Guatanamo Bay (in 1903) but was a factor in siting the temporary (Camp X-Ray) and later permanent (Camp Delta) detention facilities for War on Terror detainees there.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by bronzeage on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:23PM (#27610580)

You literally answered it yourself: you find the suicide more believable today. If you find it more believable today, and their motivation is obscuring the murder, this is the perfect timing actually.

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