Posted on 04/14/2014 12:40:19 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Strange how the memory bank of the GOP is so short these days. So Ms Burwell will slide into the position of head of Obamacare without a smidgen of discussion of her political ties. Rather than choosing someone with a Healthcare background, let’s pick another political operative. She got herself off to a good start with helping out Hillary and Bill Clinton and picking through dead Vince Foster’s trash the day of his death. No worries over White Water for sure. So just who is she?
Who is Burwell?
According to the Free Beacon:
In July 1995, Burwell (then Sylvia Mathews) was one of several key aides questioned by the Senate Whitewater Committee regarding the death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster.
Foster’s death was officially ruled a suicide. The Clinton White House eventually admitted to misleading investigators about how senior officials had seized and disposed of files relating to the first couple’s controversial investments in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed real estate venture.
Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers admitted that then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, who had recovered documents relating to the Whitewater controversy from Foster’s office after his death, did not turn over the documents to the Clinton family’s personal attorney, contrary to what White House officials had claimed. Nussbaum had actually given the documents to Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, who placed them in a White House safe for five days before being turned over to the family attorney.
Under questioning, Sylvia Mathews and her colleagues denied impeding a police investigation into Foster’s death after his body was found in a northern Virginia park. According to the New York Times, Mathews testified “in laborious detail about what she had found in Mr. Foster’s garbage on the night he died.”
Recall Travel Gate? For those too young: Vince Foster Dead. A great link for a refresher.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/850133/posts
…the long-hidden notebook kept by Vincent Foster had been in the office of White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum following Mr. Foster’s death. The notebook chronicled Mr. Foster’s anguish over Hillary Clinton’s role in the firings, Harry Thomason’s potential criminal liability, and whether the White House scandal containment strategy could be maintained to stop at the level of David Watkins.
(snip) NY Times:
The committee today began what will be weeks of intensive questioning of White House aides about whether Mrs. Clinton, in advance of investigators, had told officials to remove papers from the office of Vincent W. Foster Jr., her close friend and former law partner who was the deputy White House counsel at the time he killed himself on July 20, 1993.
(snip)
The committee also focused today on Mr. Foster’s office trash. Members questioned Sylvia Mathews, a former White House aide, in laborious detail about what she had found in Mr. Foster’s garbage on the night he died. Other than a few routine documents, the garbage contained nothing that shed light on Mr. Foster’s thinking, said Ms. Mathews, who is now chief of staff at the Treasury Department.
Republicans on the committee found it significant, however, that Ms. Mathews had also managed to retrieve a special bag of garbage containing classified and sensitive papers that was usually destroyed by the Secret Service. The contents of that bag were never examined by anyone to see if Mr. Foster had left anything in it that might shed light on his state of mind.
Ms. Mathews said that she got the bag from the Secret Service and began looking briefly through it, when she discovered that it contained all of the classified garbage from the West Wing.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com …
Hey there’s the scumbag who was getting hummers while sending troops off to die.
My chief condition for employment is the ability to obfuscate for me. And Ms. Sylvia Burglar, has proven to be among the very best.
Just what we need, another lowlife who will do the dirty work of their masters. I can’t wait til another ugly Clinton runs for political office. These scumbags just won’t go away.
The Foster thing is pretty much ancient history. Sorry, it is.
What I want to see is a through examination of her role in closing down and barracading Federal property, including locking WWII Vets out of their own Memorial, during the shut down last fall.
So it’s recent history, had a wider impact and generates much deeper emotional redponses (screwing over WWII vets)
Another female lackey to do under the bus!
If she had another 20 lbs on her she’d look like Bill’s type.
What? Female? Still Breathing? Showered in the past year? No Beard like a Confederate General?
For Bill, the "Beard" part is likely optional.
no they won’t. next will be webb hubble’s daughter chelsea will be next.
I don't recall her name being mentioned in regard to the Vince Foster case back then, and I would think that she was serving as a lackey for HRC, who directed the initial Foster office clean up from afar in Arkansas.
Good find!
Just remember: there's no statute of limitations on murder. 'Nuff said!
Of course, if a Republican is ever President again (questionable), such a scandal would dwarf Watergate.
"State of mind"? That would only come into play if it were a suicide. But all of the real evidence points to homicide!
It was suicide. They just covered up where he committed it.
And why!
Political suicide for the Clinton’s if anyone found out where he killed himself. Or that they knew he was suicidal for months and kept pressuring him to handle all their illegal deals.
Someone other than he Clinton’s knows. Blackmail is always possible in situations like these.
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