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Posted on 07/22/2007 4:36:02 AM PDT by GFritsch
14 yers ago today, on July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was found in a Virginia park, next to a civil war cannon, with an unidentified revolver lodged in the right hand. Vincent Foster died of a small-caliber gunshot wound to his head.
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.
The following happened within weeks of his death. Vince Foster finally files the missing Whitewater tax returns. On July 19, FBI director William Sessions is fired. Clinton personally orders him by phone to turn in his FBI property and leave headquarters.
That evening, Clinton security aide Jerry Parks' wife Jane says she overhears a heated telephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband says, "You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them."
On July 20, Clinton names Louis Freeh as Sessions' successor.
That same day, the FBI raids David Hale's Little Rock office and seizes documents including those relating to Capital-Management.
Just hours after the search warrant authorizing the raid is signed by a federal magistrate in Little Rock, Vince Foster apparently drives to Ft. Marcy Park.
Foster was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head in Ft. Marcy Park. His unoccupied car, a 1989 Honda, was found in the park's parking lot. Several witnesses - before and after the arrival of the park police - have claimed they saw a briefcase in Foster's car.
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 three independent handwriting experts determined that Foster's suicide note, was a forgery.
The Raid of Vince Foster’s Office While the U.S. Park Police studied the body, Foster's office at the White House was being looted.
Secret Service agent Henry O' Neill watched as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carried boxes of papers out of Vincent Foster's office before the Park Police showed up to seal it, yet the official identification of Vincent Foster's body by Craig Livingstone did not take place until 10PM!
Another Secret Serviceman saw Craig Livingston remove items from Vincent Foster's office in violation of the official seal. Witnesses also saw Bernard Nussbaum in Foster's office as well. Three witnesses noted that Patsy Thomason, director of the White House's Office of Administration, was desperate to find the combination to Vincent Foster's safe. Ms. Thomason finally opened the safe, apparently with the help of a special "MIG" technical team signed into the White House in the late hours. Two envelopes reported to be in the safe by Foster's secretary Deborah Gorham, addressed to Janet Reno and to William Kennedy III, were never seen again. When asked the next day regarding rumors of the safe opening, Mack McLarty told reporters Foster's office did not even have a safe, a claim immediately shot down by former occupants of that office.
The next day, when the Park Police arrived for the official search of Vincent Foster's office, they were shocked to learn that Nussbaum, Thomason and Williams had entered the office. Conflicts channeled through Janet Reno's Department of Justice resulted in the Park Police merely sitting outside Foster's office while Bernard Nussbaum continued his own search of Foster's office. During this search, he opened and upended Vincent Foster's briefcase, showing it to be empty. Three days later, it would be claimed that this same briefcase was where the torn up suicide note was discovered.
The boxes of documents removed from Foster's office by Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, were taken to the private residence area of the White House! Eventually, only 54 pages emerged.
One set of billing records, under subpoena for two years, and thought to have originated in Foster's office, turned up unexpectedly in the private quarters of the White House, with Hillary's fingerprints on them.
So, who ordered the office looting?
Bill Clinton was unavailable, being on camera with Larry King. But Hillary Clinton, who had only the day before diverted her planned return to Washington D.C. to Little Rock, was on the phone from Little Rock to someone at the White House in the moments before the looting took place.
The death of Vince Foster is very unsettling. There is an amazing amount of inconsistent information surrounding his death, the investigation and the autopsy. And, of course, his close relationship with Hillary was intriguing. Many books have claimed that the two were lovers for several years.
To date, several unanswered questions still remain. What did the White House know and when did they know it? Another question: If Foster was not identified as a White House official until at least an hour and a half after police arrived, why were police officers associated with an elite federal unit on the scene within 45 minutes? Evidence suggests that White House officials were informed of Foster's death, at least an hour before they claim to have been initially notified.
The FBI never officially investigated the case but simply signed off on the Park Police "probe." The bureau had little choice.
Later, Robert Fiske, selected by Clinton’s counsel Bernie Nussbaum and Janet Reno, quickly confirmed the Park Police probe as a suicide. Yet, 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.
? The first witness to find the body insisted that there had been no gun near the body. The memory in Foster's pager had been erased. Critical evidence began to vanish. Many witnesses were harassed. Others were simply ignored. There were even suggestions that the body had been moved, and a Secret Service memo surfaced which reported that Foster's body had been found in his car! The official reports were self-contradictory.
? 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.
? A briefcase in the car of Vincent Foster was removed after U.S. Park Police arrived at his death scene. The briefcase, which may have carried important documents, was never listed on official evidence reports compiled by park police who conducted the first investigation into the White House deputy counsel's death.
Hillary Clinton was trying to gain leverage over her husband, possibly in relation to future divorce proceedings. It is possible Mrs. Clinton wanted to get to the bottom of persistent rumours about her husband's philandering before subjecting herself and her daughter to the media glare of a presidential campaign. At the time, Mrs Clinton and Vince Foster were partners at the Rose Law firm.
Did Hillary Clinton have an affair with Little Rock lawyer Vincent Foster? According to retired Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson, "There is no doubt in my mind that there was a long, ongoing sexual relationship between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster."
Patterson, who guarded the Clintons for more than six years, made the new disclosures on the audiotape set "More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed"
Patterson said that on one occasion, at a birthday party for Hillary Clinton, he saw Foster touch Hillary in private areas of the body twice. Patterson said his belief about Hillary and Vince was formed after years of observation during the frequent meetings between the two, when Bill was out of town, and the stories of other troopers.
Patterson gives eyewitness details of several occasions upon which he saw Vince and Hillary in compromising situations.
On the day of Vince Foster’s death, Patterson said he learned about the death before the Park Police even found Foster’s body and hours before the White House said they were informed. Patterson’s information, corroborated by another trooper, exposes a cover-up bigger than Watergate.
A case arose from an overall conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with federal investigations into the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent W. Foster.
Patrick Knowlton was in Ft. Marcy Park the afternoon that Vincent Foster died. What Knowlton saw and what happened to him afterwards is one of the most disturbing stories of the whole Clinton saga. You can read the testimony here
Miguel Rodriguez was a prosecutor on the staff of Kenneth Starr. His attempts to uncover the truth in the Vincent Foster death case were repeatedly foiled, and he was the subject of planted stories undermining his credibility and implying that he was unstable. Rodriguez eventually resigned.
After learning of Fosters death, Jane Parks, the wife of Jerry Parks claims that her husband said, "I'm a dead man". Parks had collected detailed data on Clinton's sexual escapades, including pictures and dates. His wife claims federal agents subsequently removed his files and computer, and that Bill Clinton still owed him $81,000.
(Note. Two months later, Jerry Parks is found murdered gangland-style )
Maybe "Explanations" of the Force of Gravity as he "Falls" out a window, or the Force Of Bouyancy that struggles against his cement shoes, or Centrifugal Force as his car overturns..
That's like saying, "I want clean air and clean drinking water." Who doesn't?
You cannot deal in facts until you have facts. You trust that the media has reported all of the facts with regard to Vince Foster. Many of us here don't share that trust because experience has taught us the folly of believing that the media keeps us well-informed on scandals involving Liberals -- or that it keeps us informed on good news involving conservative policies. It doesn't -- and that's a fact!
Further, some of us here think that people who believe that conventional media reporting keeps them informed are themselves unknowingly subject to quite a lot of "illogical constructs" because they don't differentiate between innuendo and skepticism.
As for me personally, I've witnessed close-up how easy it is for the media to cover-up dissemination of facts in order to protect ideologies, organizations, and people. You labor under the mistaken idea that it is difficult to cover-up news. I, on the other hand, have been disillusioned. Someday you will, too.
When I say facts I mean source documents and perhaps an interview with someone such as VF’s wife.
VF’s handgun was actually two separate handguns sold in 1913! AHAAA! That’s it, it was a conspiracy!
also go here: http://www.allanfavish.com/foster.htm
What are you saying? That you accept findings from the NTSB?
# When the NTSB scheduled public hearings into the crash in Baltimore for Dec. 8, 1997, the FBI pressured the NTSB to exclude those highly credible eyewitness reports and ban their live testimony from the hearings.
# The FBI influenced the content of the NTSB hearings by pressuring the NTSB chairman to exclude any evidence of an external explosion by banning all discussion, reports, test results and eyewitnesses that supported such an event. The absence of laboratory results of explosive residues from the hearings placed total reliance on the word of an FBI crime lab with a history of inadequate scientific checks and balances.
# On July 21, 1996, a safety board report states that Assistant U.S. Attorney Valerie Caproni informed Norm Weimeyer, head of the Flight 800 probe’s operations group, “that no interviews were to be conducted by the NTSB.” Safety board investigators could review FBI-supplied documents on the witnesses, “provided no notes were taken and no copies were made.”
I read your site last night and enjoyed it. What ever happened with your FOIA request? I saw that you won access to certain photos, but never saw them and the last update to your site on these was 2004 I belive.
I’ll check out the other link to FR. thanks.
Combine the facts that (1)it wasn't VF's handgun, (2) an old gun like that is a perfect "drop gun" because it is impssible to trace, (3) VF left no prints on the external surface of that gun, (4) VF left no blood on the gun that he supposedly fired off in his mouth, (5) VF arrived at FMP before his car did, according to several eyewitnesses, (6) there were no grass or dirt stains on the soles of VF's shoes, though he supposedly walked over 700 feet through grassy and dirt terrain immediately before the "suicide", and (7) the gunpowder burns on the victim's hands were consistent with a defensive posture at the time a shot was fired at him at short range - and you can see that the "suicide-in-the-park" conclusion is dead wrong! About the only alternative theory that makes sense is foul play!
Nothing illogical about concluding that there was a homicide conspiracy if that's the only way you can explain the evidence!
Note also that the NTSB at the time was chaired by a close buddy of - Al Gore!
Your number one “fact” saying it wasn’t Foster’s gun is wrong. It was identified as being his father’s gun from the inheritance Two. Any old gun is a drop gun?? Three. Any prints that were smeared from a gun being fired in a suicide? Four. Ever heard of muzzle blast? Seven. Defensive posture????? you have to be kidding me.
Who identified it? Where is there any documentation of a legitimate identification of the gun? Remember, the gun in the park in contact with the victim's hand was black or "blue," not silver.
Any old gun is a drop gun?
The older the gun is, the less likely to be traced to its owner, all else being equal. So, yes, old relics (80 years old, in this case) are preferred to newer guns for that devious purpose.
Any prints that were smeared from a gun being fired in a suicide?
There were no prints, smeared or not, on the external surfaces of the gun! Are you telling me that a suicide would think of wearing gloves in hot summer weather to make sure he left no prints? Let's get real!
Defensive posture?
Yes. It is illustrated in Chris Ruddy's book, "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster." It is documented more completely in "Failure of the Public Trust," by Patrick Knowlton, John Clarke, and Hugh Turley.
“When shown the gun, Foster’s sister, Sharon Bowman, identified it as appearing very similar to the one their father had kept in his bedside table, specifically recalling the pattern on the grip.”
Here is what author Ambrose Evans-Pritchard stated in reply in his book, "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" (p.131):
This is a nice exhibit of Fiske's methods. In fact, the record indicates that Fiske's investigators never showed Sharon Bowman the gun. If they ever spoke to her at all, they did not leave any paper trail. What the documents reveal is that Mrs. Bowman was shown a picture of a gun by a family friend, who then wrote to the Park police saying the "pistol in the photograph" looked like a gun that she had seen in her father's collection.
In fact, she did not identify it. Her husband, Lee Bowman, told me a very different version of this story. "Sharon thought she would be able to recognize it, but she really couldn't," he said. [Citing Author interview with Lee Bowman, April 1995] Fiske's entire identification is built on a might or perhaps that that was nothing more than hearsay in the first place.
It was their son, Lee Foster Bowman, who had the most detailed knowledge of the guns. He had fired some of his grandfather's collection - three handguns, four shotguns, and two or three rifles - when they used to go duck hunting together at a cabin in Yellowcreek, Arkansas, and he expected to be able to identify the .38 Special with an etched handle that the old man kept by his bed. [Citing Green Books, p. 1806. FBI 302 Report, statement of Lee Foster Bowman, June 28, 1994] But the gun found at Fort Marcy Park was an "old piece of junk," nothing like the elegant silver-colored antique he remembered.
"He didn't remember the black handle and the dark color of the metal." [Ibid.]
The truth is, no member of the family was ever able to identify the gun found in Foster's hand. Not one. Ever.
Too many unexplained “dead” associates of Tubba and Bubba for there not to be highly suspicious connections. The Clintoons certainly have lots of explaining to do. No one, I repeat, no one has that many dead people trailing behind them. Sorry, if you don’t believe VWF was murdered, but I do.
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Vincenzo Fosterini was murdered. If you study enough to know why Hillary called Vince that, you will know that he was murdered. Know. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is a reliable starting point.
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Whats so really weird is that I have met an unusual amount of people that honestly believe Hillary will be president by any means necessary, by any means implying that buy hook or crook they will still support her, what is our country becoming when the public supports any means like bribes, extortion, slander and even murder to get their choice of a leader?
Perhaps the whole process of a presidential election should be considered, I know nothing about a better process but it appears to me our system is getting too crooked and prone to manipulation to swing votes.
I actually think it should be a lottery system, some person legally and mentally able to hold the position just drawn from the public might even be better.
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