Posted on 12/04/2003 4:33:52 AM PST by kattracks
Major media outlets reported Wednesday on the Supreme Court hearing of California lawyer Allan Favish's case that government photographs of Vincent Foster’s death scene be released for public viewing. The media report that no fewer than five investigations have found that Foster committed suicide because he was depressed. But despite 10 years of denial by the major media, the Foster case has not “closed” – as the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday demonstrated.The case won’t close because of the failure of authorities to make full disclosure – and to conduct a full investigation into the case, including a complete autopsy.
Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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.
Foster was found with a 1913 revolver no one in his family could claim, with two serial numbers, made from the parts of three or more guns. None of Foster’s fingerprints were found on the gun.
The bullet that supposedly killed Foster was never found, despite intensive searches.
Despite claims to the contrary, no one who knew Foster, including Hillary, Web Hubbell and his own wife, saw signs of depression.
A so-called suicide note was found in an office briefcase that had been searched and found to be empty after Foster’s death. The note was torn into 27 pieces. Yet an FBI examination found no trace of Foster’s fingerprints on the note and a top Oxford handwriting expert found the note to be an “obvious” forgery.
Despite the enormity of the case, Foster’s autopsy lasted an astounding 45 minutes. The coroner in the case had previously been overruled in other cases he declared “suicides” that were later found to be murders.
All of the X-rays taken during the autopsy are missing.
Complete crime scene photos don’t exist. The Park Police said all the photos were “accidentally” overexposed. A series of close-up Polaroids, which Favish is suing for, remain. This is just a brief summary of the dozens of inconsistencies in the case. Two New York homicide investigators who looked into the case concluded that Foster’s body had been moved to the crime scene and that murder could not be ruled out.
Despite overwhelming evidence of a cover-up, the media won’t question the official ruling.
Ken Starr, who could find no criminal wrongdoing on the part of the Clintons during his “intensive” probe, confirmed a ruling of suicide. Starr even hired O.J. Simpson’s defense expert to prove his case.
If ever there were a case for public disclosure of government records and photos, it’s the Vince Foster case. The high court should decide in Allan Favish’s favor.
And RB's son is now head of the FCC or some such position. It just all fits together; seems to be the way the game is played in the big leagues.
At least that's the impression I'm getting.
Seriously, even as goofy as Bubba is, she's a natural born bungler compared to him. She tries to cover it up by pretending to intellectualism, alternating saccharin sweetness with devildog nasty and applying extreme efficiency to mundane tasks. That might actually be worth something if she were any good at it but she bungles that too.
When it all fails she rips psychotic and Bubba comes to the rescue. The A team.
Does that sound about right?
Awful lot of funny stuff goes on, doesn't it?
I'd be depressed too if I thought Hillery was going to have me murdered like Judy Danielak, and knew she was probably going to get away with it. Especially if my conscience was bothering me about my personal responsibility for the kids murdered at Waco.
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Interesting. Haven't heard this before.
Regards,
Actually, 3 times before Foster's death, while the gun was in police custody.
'Vince Foster's gun' serial number searched before death. NewsMax.com 2001;April 4.
It is possible that a 33-year-old apprentice machinist has done more to bring the truth to light than prestigious, well-connected, politically dedicated pathologists. Last year, Craig Brinkley filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Criminal Interstate Computer System Administration (NCIC) for the records of trace requests made on the gun found in Foster's hand. There were four: one the night of Foster's death (July 20, 1993); two within four days of each other in March, 1993; and one on April 29, 1993.(1)The NCIC records should reveal which law enforcement agency made the request and who possessed the gun at the time, although this information has not been released. (All trace requests must be channeled through a law enforcement agency.) The BATF National Tracing Center report obtained by the Park Police showed no owners in the 80 years since the gun was shipped to a hardware store in Seattle.(2)
(2)Irvine R. Non-smoking gun unravels cover-up. WorldNetDaily 2001;April 7.
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Can you say drop gun?
You are quite good.
Best Regards,
Now TU, how could this finding possibly reach a no biggie cocensus?
Regards,
Or that lower-level FBI and Justice Department employees are seriously going about their jobs and performing their dutiesto the best of their abilities, but the investigation will come to a screeching halt once it hits the appropriate higher levels. Remember that Attorney General John Ashcroft is from Missouri, and Hillery still has her favorite FBI files, including those from the St Louis-area Fife-Lawless investigation, FOIA requests for which have been stonewalled through all 8 years of the Clinton/Reno Justice Department and both Bush administrations. When the scandals are sufficiently poisoinous to bring down felonious officeholders from both parties, the efforts of the honest cops at the base of the pyramid can't be allowed to be allowed to continue on up to the top.
Just ask Missouri Governor Carnahan. If you've got a Ouija board....
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Can you say drop gun?
Not in my circles. That phrase is more common among street cops, particularly from the 1960s-70s.
We'd have more likely described it as a *sterile piece*.
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surely he was politically motivated
they just hated the clintons, that's all
people have a right to privacy
Find the tracer, you find the killer, IMO.
Well, not necessarily. There's an excellent chance that someone's left that as a false trail, especially if it's a fed spook from a former federal agency wantung to leave some muddy tracks on the agency or supervisors he left behind him, or on a bureaucratic rival. But it's an excellent starting point.
Now TU, how could this finding possibly reach a no biggie cocensus?
Regards,
*****
oops ...'concensus'
Ooops, ooops: That's *consensus*
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You think you have it bad...my boss was on the crew investigating the Ron Brown crash and when I asked him about it, he just smiled this wicked little smile and wouldn't tell me a thing...arrrrrggghhhh! And he thinks I am kidding when I tell him I am trying to find him another job back in his home state.
Best Regards,
I've done LOTS worse when tired. When in doubt, Googlesearch the word, it'll give a correct spelling for a close misspelling. The new FR spellchecker should help, too.
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