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Yeah, it probably wasn't murder, but considering that the US is quickly becoming a fascist oligarcny just like Russia is, and more and more American whistle blowers seem to be mysteriously dying... I wouldn't be surprised to learn he was murdered. The oligarchs are evil af and any government that can aggressively fund a baby killing genocide is also evil enough to kill people for petty reasons
JFK, tupac, biggie, Malcolm X, king
To be fair, 'I wouldn't be surprised if...' isn't a testimony or claiming something happened, it's voicing a level of disillusionment with something, nothing but opinion.
He also wasn't a whistleblower he was just downloading scholarly articles from a service he had legal access to use.
The theory that he would be murdered over this is pretty wild as any college student or person with a JSTOR account has access to these same articles, so what necessitates murder in Aaron's situation? He wasn't exposing anyone or anything. It was just some douche of a federal employee trying to advance his career by "making an example" out of some kid who arguably didn't even do anything illegal.