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[Flashback] No Intention To Question First Lady [Burwell went through Vince Foster's Trash]
The New York Times ^ | July 26, 1995 | STEPHEN LABATON

Posted on 04/12/2014 3:36:36 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

The chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair today ruled out calling Hillary Rodham Clinton as a witness unless strong evidence emerged of her involvement in the mishandling of papers from the office of a White House aide who committed suicide two years ago.

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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.

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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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: burwell; foster; suicicde; sylviamathewsburwell; vincefoster
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So it seems that Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Obama's nominee to replace Sibelius as HHS Secretary, was the Clinton aide who went through Vince Foster's trash immediately after he was found dead in Marcy Park.
1 posted on 04/12/2014 3:36:36 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

What an interconnected nest of vipers we find in Democrat politics.


2 posted on 04/12/2014 3:42:38 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: kristinn; suspects; holdonnow; SilvieWaldorfMD; Jim Robinson

(((((PING)))))


3 posted on 04/12/2014 3:46:12 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler
What are the chances that a Republican Senator will have the balls to ask the obvious questions?



America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

4 posted on 04/12/2014 3:48:07 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: All

The DNC is one big crime family that should be under RICO investigation by the FBI

Biggest bunch of crooks this country has ever seen..

From voter fraud to murder.


5 posted on 04/12/2014 3:49:31 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Whitewater. Boy does that bring back memories of the early days here on Free Republic.


6 posted on 04/12/2014 3:55:30 PM PDT by Bessellieu
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To: Timber Rattler

This entire administration is trash.


7 posted on 04/12/2014 3:55:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She went through Foster’s trash? She’s going to head HHS?

So, now we know what you can get when you have a bargaining chip against the Clintons...


8 posted on 04/12/2014 4:00:17 PM PDT by IncPen (When you start talking about what we 'should' have, you've made the case for the Second Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By any decent standard they are in fact-TRASH! Stupid incompetency and poor impulse control now govern us. Members of a group of people who cannot even govern themselves now are placed in positions of authority over others i.e. “The Divine One,” and Holder among others.


9 posted on 04/12/2014 4:01:42 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Timber Rattler; justiceseeker93

Perhaps there are Freepers with comments on the Foster issue.


10 posted on 04/12/2014 4:01:48 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

We all know PIAPS was making cookies!


11 posted on 04/12/2014 4:03:53 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Oh, HELL Yes, ExTx!

Big *HUG*

Does the term "Arkancide" strike a familiar note?



America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

12 posted on 04/12/2014 4:06:20 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Burwell was the person Hillbilly had go through Vince Foster’s office after he was suicided.


13 posted on 04/12/2014 4:07:12 PM PDT by GreyFriar ( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

“The DNC is one big crime family that should be under RICO investigation by the FBI.”

And they use Marxism as a way to control the populace while they loot the treasury.


14 posted on 04/12/2014 4:09:31 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Bessellieu
Whitewater. Boy does that bring back memories of the early days here on Free Republic.

Yeah I followed Whitewater here and all I got was this lousy name. Ken Star sure disappointed me.

15 posted on 04/12/2014 4:11:43 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Oh how convenient, another criminal element added to the soup
16 posted on 04/12/2014 4:22:39 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Timber Rattler

17 posted on 04/12/2014 4:45:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Perhaps there are Freepers with comments on the Foster issue.

Ha!.. Let me take a nap first before I get back to you.. Naw, I'll just make popcorn and sit back and let you younger Freepers bring them up to snuff.. :)

18 posted on 04/12/2014 4:54:35 PM PDT by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: BenLurkin

Ah....the “suicide note” on bright (yellow?) paper that wasn’t visible through searches of Foster’s briefcase for several days.


19 posted on 04/12/2014 5:18:44 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Timber Rattler
Burwell is Obama's way of ensuring that Hillary can't run away from Obamacare in the 2016 election.

If the Republicans were smart they could use Burwell to tie Hillary to Obamacare...but they did not get the moniker the Stupid Party for nothing. It should have been child's play in 2012 for Romney to use Obamacare to defeat Obama.

20 posted on 04/12/2014 5:23:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus (ADES)
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