Supreme Court Revives Clintons' Vince Foster Scandal

NewsMax.com ^ | Monday, May 5, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Jean S]

Are Bill and Hillary Clinton sweating now that the Supreme Court today revived the controversy over Vince Foster's death?

Urged by the Bush administration, the court said it would decide in autumn whether the government must release post-mortem pictures of the Clinton White House attorney's "suicide."

At stake is "the privacy interest of millions of individuals, about whom personal and sensitive information is stored in government files," Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the court.

Olson insisted that five investigations had showed Foster killed himself and that a sixth inquiry "by an unsatisfied private citizen" seemed unnecessary. But for the whole story, see Christopher Ruddy's "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster."

Accuracy in Media, a public interest group that maintained Foster's suicide note was a forgery, filed a request with Park Police seeking autopsy photographs and photos of Foster's body at Fort Marcy Park in McLean, Va.

The government refused, and a federal appeals court in Washington agreed. The court claimed the pictures were exempted from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

AIM said it wanted the photos to uncover "government foul play," but unless the group had compelling evidence there was not enough reason to justify an invasion of privacy, the appeals court said.

Attorney Allan J. Favish, who represented AIM, then filed his own FOIA request with the independent counsel's office to obtain the photos. When the office refused, Favish filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles.

Though a federal judge again said that there was no evidence justifying the invasion of privacy, a divided appeals court panel reversed and said evidence was not necessary.

When the case was sent back to trial court, the judge, under the appeals court's guidance, ordered the release of five of the 10 photographs of Foster's body, including one that had been published in Time magazine.

The government, joined by members of Foster's family, appealed. This time, an appeals court panel ordered the release of nine of the 10 photos. When the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, with headquarters in San Francisco, refused to hear the case, the government asked the Supreme Court for review.

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[bruinbirdman]

"He was also the clinton's bag man who carried their drug money to Swiss banks."

yitbos

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[cgbg]

There have been millions of words written on this subject but the bottom line is:

This was a Hillary ordered hit and a Hillary ordered coverup.

Anyone who has looked into her eyes knows she is quite capable of ordering cold blooded murder and quite prepared to murder others to cover her trail.

What they should wrtte on Vince's tombstone is "He had _very_ bad taste in women." ;-)

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[SSN558]

"The real question(to me) is how anybody could think anything "positive" about the Clintoons?"

Political strategists at the RNC love the clintons more than the NRA loves Feinsweine and Schumerscum. The mere mention of either bring donations and votes. Showing their pictures evokes emotional reactions of fear and deep seated hatred.

The clinton finger wag picture is worth millions.

[Mister Baredog]

The clintonclintoon finger wag picture is worth millions.

LOL!

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[ladyinred]

I heard Allan J. Favish on a radio show over the weekend. He was fantastic. He intends to get to the bottom of this, and knows in his heart and by the evidence that Foster did not kill himself. Anyone who reads any of the stories on the subject cannot believe he did. Hoping with him that the Supreme court ends the coverup, but who knows?

[ladyinred]

I think you are right. Bush cannot appear to undermine Clinton, but it sure looks like a lot of drip, drip, drip!

[ladyinred]

At times, I think the only difference between the two partys is the spelling.

Oh my!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Let's see, yesterday's news cycle had Sid Blumenthal floating Hillary 2004 trial balloons and today's news cycle has something on the Foster case. Coincidence? Could be. Or maybe not.