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 …
Couldn't disagree more. Just for starters, what would be the motivation to cover up a suicide? Suicide is NOT a crime. Moving a decedent's body to a remote public location to hide it IS a crime. So why commit a crime to cover up a non-crime? And where do you propose that the "suicide" occurred?
Absolutely no credible evidence to suggest VWF was "suicidal" at all. No risk factors at all present. All you have is a phony "suicide note" in someone else's handwriting found about a week after the event. And an armchair psychiatric evaluation written after the event by none other than Sid ("Sid Vicious") Blumenthal.
The entire notion of Foster's "depression" was concocted by the White House and sold to the MSM as a major part of the cover-up.
“Absolutely no credible evidence to suggest VWF was “suicidal” at all.”
I know Foster’s family (his sister - they live in the same town as we do & are in the same business - pharmacy) and he was depressed for months.
¿Quién es Vince Foster? The only place anyone in today's world would know that name is if they are a FReeper! Hello. This is The United States in 2014, where Al Sharpton is a TV news host. Hank Williams ain't on the radio much anymore. 53% of voters re-elected a pansy from Africa ... who is also an unbarred lawyer from Chicago ... as POTUS.
You have 100 million new Latinos who would not know Vince Foster from Ricky Ricardo. You have ghetto denizens ready to turn out 101% of the vote for the Democrat Party wherever needed. Single Soccer Moms, LGBT voters, the tattooed fatties in the Wal-Mart parking lot, the young who think I should pick up the tab for their birth control ... and we're talking Vince Foster?
This Left-Wing Bimbo with the dental problems is a typical federal employee. That is to say, just one of millions who believe in The Mombasa MF as a god, and who will do anything to screw over your normal (or what used to be normal) Christian American.
Harry Reid and his rapacious family are just waiting for the dust to settle before recalling federal BLM SWATs to take out Nevada citizens. Men of Nevada, when they come back, shoot first.
The reported % for Obama was 51.06% in 2012. It was the first time ever that a president won a second term with fewer popular votes than in his first election. Considering all the fraud and cheating that went on, the real % for him was probably under 50%. In other words, there is a pretty high probability that Romney would be president today had the election been conducted honestly.
But the breakdown in order and reason are important symptoms of the decadence you accurately describe. And a lot of that decadence is due to a decrease in the intelligence of the population as a whole, just as Murray and Herrnstein predicted in "The Bell Curve."
But hell, intelligent people still know their American history and still know that Vincent Foster was murdered on July 20, 1993. Forgetting about it completely only serves the interests of those thugs who perpetrated the crime.
Of course I agree. However, if 1 remembers and the 25 forget, the lesson is not learned. Mention "Vince Foster" next time you're on line at the supermarket. You'll learn what "Dumbed Down" is all about.
In regard to Voter Fraud: blame it on the GOP. They NEVER complain. They NEVER back up candidates who have been robbed. They have power they NEVER use for the benefit of the party's members. The GOP is an accessory before the fact, an accomplice during the act, and an accessory after the fact, of voter fraud.
In other words, there is a pretty high probability that Romney would be president today had the election been conducted honestly.
I refer you to the indecent haste with which The Mormon Milquetoast conceded that election with not one (1) mention of the rampant fraud in the big states; a disgrace which unfortunately illustrates my point rather well. I hope that SOB hasn't the nerve to show his pasty face in public again.
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