Posted on 11/04/2003 12:28:10 AM PST by HAL9000
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We need a Freeper to call Harry "Leni" to his face. :-)
An astute observation, for sure.
Vince Foster:
Bill and Hillary were good friends with Foster, who was a partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. Early in 1993, the first of what would be many Clinton administration scandals broke loose — the so-called Travelgate scandal. Travelgate can be summed up thusly: A bunch of travel staffers were fired by the White House on the pretext of wrongdoing, allegedly at the urging of Clinton friend Harry Thomason. The media jumped all over Travelgate, particularly the Wall Street Journal, which ran a scathing editorial about the specific evils of Vince Foster, who had been appointed by Hillary Clinton to "take care of" the alleged shenanigans of the Travel Office workers. As deputy White House counsel, he had supervised the investigation of the employees and met with the FBI, which had also investigated the workers at the behest of the White House (the FBI found no wrongdoing).
An investigation of the Travel office investigation ensued, and Foster began obsessively taking notes on the affair, in which his concern about protecting Hillary was clear, but any actual wrongdoing in the incident was not. After the Wall Street Journal articles, Foster appeared to go into a deep depression, and on July 20, 1993, Vincent Foster committed suicide by shooting himself through the back of the head.
Foster had been involved in various Clinton legal matters, including Whitewater. The questions began almost immediately, and were deepened when the White House tried to restrict access to Foster's files as the investigation into his death began.
Apparently the Wall Street Journal is responsible for Vince Fosters death.
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