Vince Foster: What the Media Won’t Tell You

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/04/03

[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.

[texasbluebell]

Well, that would account for it, Holmes!

[woodyinscc]

On the George Putnam radio program(kiev Los Angeles)in the late 90's, Monica Crawley was hawking her book on Nixon and Mr Putnam ask her what Nixon thought of the Scandals coming out of the Clinton WH. Miss Crawley answered that Nixon thought everything flowed from the Vince Foster case, solve that he said, and you will have the answers to everything.

[sweetliberty]

I think one of Dubya's best assets is that people think he's stupid. They continually underestimate him, yet when he goes in for the kill, figuratively speaking, he doesn't miss. He doesn't show his hand and he doesn't defend his intelligence, but when he finally plays his hand, the enemy doesn't know what hit them because they never saw it coming.

Ping to #33.

[sweetliberty]

Ping to an interesting thread.

[texasbluebell]

What did Parks and Foster have in common?

Didn't Chris Ruddy write that it was connected to the info in post 135, re: the Swiss acct and getting the $ to it? Parks was the driver for Foster to the airport, IIRC.

[international american]

"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."

Right on!! This case smells to the clouds 10 years later.

[ridesthemiles]

Do we get to guess whether any investigation was done to match the "Keys" suddenly "found" in Fosters pockets even match Fosters car?

[nicmarlo]

This is interesting, sweetliberty; thanks for the ping.....Doug, you may be interested in this...probably no "new" news for ya, but interesting, nonetheless.

[ridesthemiles]

Wasn't there also alot of talk at the time about all the trips that Vince Foster took from DC to Switzerland and back- most of them in a virtual "roundtrip"-no time there on the ground to speak- fashion? I seem to remember alot of talk that he was the "Bagman" for Bill and Hill's money grabs going into Swiss accounts.
Like everyone says- Follow the money......

[longfellow]

elementary my dear.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The old saying, follow the money. The secret to the Clinton crimefest getting a pass was Mutually Assured Destruction.

No one could bring up bribery, extortion and treason or even murder because they all had Chinese money in their pockets, from Clinton to Starr and everyone in between.

And EVERYONE in between.

And nothing has changed.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...Enormous bribes must have changed hands...some one out there knows the whole story...what would it take to get it out?...

The downfall of the entire government. See above.

[texasbluebell]

Do we get to guess whether any investigation was done to match the "Keys" suddenly "found" in Fosters pockets even match Fosters car?

Shirley, you jest.

[texasbluebell]

The downfall of the entire government.

That, in a nutshell, is why none of the funny stuff ever gets uncovered, starting with JFK, all the way on down.

I'm resigned to it. Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am finally.

[IncPen]

You've been thinking about this, from the evidence on the threads you referenced, at least as long as me

The Clintonian world is so convoluted that to be drawn into deconstructing it is to force yourself to think like them, which for us, is a hard thing. So I'll go with today.

Today I believe that Foster was despondent and killed himself, probably in the White House. If he were on a tape leaving the grounds of his own accord, we'd have seen that tape as it would underscore the Fort Marcy Park theory. We haven't, it doesn't.

I'm inclined to believe that he was discovered by someone Clinton-friendly (Susan Thomases, Nussbaum) who could be trusted to be quiet. I halfway believe he offed himself with pills or cocaine (had he passed a drug test- remember THAT scandal?) rather than a gun.

The bullet was, in this theory, post-mortem, thus reducing the mess and making death 'obvious' to throw off the drug connection. Imagine the scandal of a top-Clinton operative ODing in the WH would have raised!

Someone else (Kennedy, Livingstone) took charge of the body, rolled it in a carpet and tossed it into the back of a station wagon or delivery truck. They went 'offsite', rearranged things (bullet), maybe brought in a 'pro' and headed over to the park

The problem then was keeping the lid on. IIRC, Linda Tripp was in the White House at the time and was among the last to see Foster alive that day. So we know there was a small circle of knowledge.

That she knows nothing about it tells me I probably won't ever, either.

But I have a theory of the afterlife: when you die, you go to a big waiting room that has a large TV scree, VCR and a big coffee-table book that's titled 'Life's Mysteries'

That's when I'll figure all this shite out.

[pepsionice]

You have to remember just how corrupt Bill was in Arkansas...and it wasn't for measly $10k donations. He and Hillery likely had over $1 million sitting in Swiss accounts. Ask yourself why Vince made those trips to Europe. He wasn't there purchasing art...he wasn't there meeting with foreign dignitaries...and he wasn't there to talk Chirac wine and cheese discussions. He went purely to deposit money and ensure Bill and Hillery were quietly getting rich. If anyone ever figured out how much money they actually had....then the word corruption would have immedately come out. Vince was the go-to guy. And he failed.

[texasbluebell]

But I have a theory of the afterlife: when you die, you go to a big waiting room that has a large TV scree, VCR and a big coffee-table book that's titled 'Life's Mysteries' That's when I'll figure all this shite out.

I like it! I'm going with that. Something to look forward to.

[texasbluebell]

Yes, indeed.

I'd love to know how much they mananged to squirrel away, but then they'd have to kill me too.

[wtc911]

No, W. will do nothing. No matter how much we like/admire him he is still POTUS and nobody gets there without selling at least part of his soul.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the ping. May the real truth someday be finally known to all.