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IIRC Mr. Ruddy was a reporer for the New York Post at the time of the death of Mr. Foster and was pressured (fired?) to stop his reporting on the matter. " . . . On the night of Foster’s death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their investigation of Foster’s office and strange death.

"Since Foster’s July 1993 death, the facts of his death have been obfuscated by friends of Bill and Hillary in the major media, but here’s the undeniable truth:

"There weren’t “five” investigations into Foster’s death, as the media report. The Park Police, best known for their meter and horse patrols around Washington, were put in charge of the initial death inquiry of the most important federal official to die suspiciously since President Kennedy. The Park Police, contradicting standard procedure, declared the death a suicide before launching their inquiry.

"The FBI never officially investigated the case but simply signed off on the Park Police “probe.” The bureau had little choice. The day before Foster’s death, Bill Clinton hurriedly fired the director of the FBI, William Sessions. Sessions later charged that Clinton had “politicized” the bureau.

"Later, Robert Fiske, selected by Clinton’s counsel Bernie Nussbaum and Janet Reno, quickly confirmed the Park Police probe as a suicide.

"But when Ken Starr entered the investigation, he reopened the case. His chief prosecutor in the case, Miquel Rodriguez, later quit the Starr investigation, claiming that Starr’s staff was engaging in a cover-up of Foster’s death.

"Rodriguez, a Harvard-educated federal prosecutor, argued that one of the Polaroid photos taken of Foster at the crime scene indicated an additional wound on Foster’s neck – never noted on the autopsy report. Favish’s suit before the Supreme Court is seeking to release this photo, among others.

"No fewer than three of the paramedics on the scene indicated in reports or testimony that the crime scene was consistent with a murder scene, not a suicide.

"A careful FBI microscopic investigation of Foster’s shoes found not a trace of soil or grass stains on them, though he supposedly walked several hundred yards through wooded Fort Marcy Park to where his body was found. [Years later, Starr’s investigation found plenty of soil and grass stains. Rodriguez charged that the shoes were tampered with to produce such “evidence.”]

"Foster was found with little blood around his body – and despite claims that he fired the gun into his mouth, practically no blood was found on the front of his shirt . . . ."

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(from an old Newsweek article)"The mess began at about 8:30 on the evening of July 20, 1993, when Park Police informed the Secret Service that the dead man in Fort Marcy Park was a White House official. David Watkins, director of White House management, was at the movies with his family when the Secret Service beeped him. Watkins went to Foster's house in Georgetown and gave the bitter news to Foster's wife, Lisa, who instantly broke down. Soon, a number of administration officials and old Arkansas friends came to console the family--and in the confusion, Park Police officers Cheryl Braun and John Rolla gently tried to interview family members about Foster's suicide.

"They got little or no cooperation. Braun told Senate investigators that Webster Hubbell, the former associate attorney general who was one of Foster's colleagues at the Rose Law Finn in Little Rock, "came up and shoved me out of the way" when she tried to question Foster's sister. Braun also testified she asked Walkins to seal off Foster's White House office. Walkins says he can't recall Braun's request. But he did hear Lisa Foster ask if her husband had left a suicide note and, at 10:34 p.m., Watkins reached Thomasson to ask her to search Foster's office."

IIRC correctly a suicide note was eventually discovered in a desk drawer or briefcase that had previously been searched.