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.

[Incorrigible]

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[smith288]

I wonder if there is some strategy to slowly bring the Clintons down by the Bush administration? Most would say no, but Bush is a master at strategery.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

Not unlike Hillary's 900 FBI files.

[ChemistCat]

President Bush had plenty of opportunity to do so. He has avoided it. I have my own theory about why, but I am not going to get into that right now.

[b4its2late]

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.

And all of this occurred in while the clintons were in power. I say it smelled then and it still smells now.

[Lurking Libertarian]

I wonder if there is some strategy to slowly bring the Clintons down by the Bush administration? Most would say no, but Bush is a master at strategery.

The court of appeals ordered the pictures released. The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court to reverse the court of appeals and keep the evidence secret.

[joesnuffy]

does it have anything to do with airplanes airports central america and a certain attny general turned gov turned pres and a certain alphabet man?

[joesnuffy]

Ahhh they will take another shot at the hairball and come up with another airball

[timestax]

bump for the real Painful Truth (painfull for Hitlery and Bill)

[smith288]

Im retarded. HAH

[Mister Baredog]

I wonder if there is some strategy to slowly bring the Clintons down by the Bush administration?

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

[Cicero]

There's absolutely no question that Vincent Foster did not not commit suicide in Fort Marcy Park. The best study on this was A Citizen's Independent Report on the Death of Vincent Foster.

It's remotely possible that Foster killed himself in the White House and was driven out to the park by the FBI. But it's far more likely that he was murdered by order of the clintons.

Foster knew too much about OKC, Whitewater, and the Arkansas prison blood scandal. He was also the clinton's bag man who carried their drug money to Swiss banks.

[ChemistCat]

While you're behind the wheel of an SUV that's worth less than what you owe on it, you don't push for new rules that punish SUV owners.

[ravingnutter]

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Also...the Peter Paul and Riady cases are still in play per Judicial Watch...plea bargains for testimony?

Hmmmm...and some news I had not seen reported on here...

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[11B3]

Another Arkancide in Florida? Let's see, three shots were fired to kill two people in a locked office. Any bets that the door lock was of the type that you merely push the button on the inside to lock it (so that you can lock it on the way out)?

[MattinNJ]

...Arkansas prison blood scandal...

What ever happened to that? I should know better, but I really thought that scandal would grow legs.

[RJCogburn]

Thanks for Filegate Accuser Wins Settlement

I had not seen it. The chance we will see justice in this matter is so slight as to be unmeasureable, though, IMO.

[RJCogburn]

Although, I take lawyers representing the Clinton administration agreed to pay him $85,000 to mean that you and I have to contribute to it.

[Yeti]

I have my own theory about why, but I am not going to get into that right now.

Aw, come on!

I'll tell you mine: anything he releases will not undo anything that has been done, but the *threat* of releasing any damning info could be quite useful in the future.

Of course there's always the possibility that they're really all in it together and they don't tell on eachother because one just doesn't.