Posted on 07/20/2008 7:42:23 PM PDT by doug from upland
In July 1993, Clinton aide Vince Foster was found dead in a Virginia park. The death was officially pronounced a suicide, but rumors abounded that Foster was murdered. Foster's death has ties to several White House scandals, including the administration's handling of "Travelgate," the Waco incident and the Whitewater affair.
Kenneth Starr, special counsel in charge of the Whitewater investigation, investigated Foster's death and what relationship it might have had with Whitewater.
In three articles in the Electronic Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported on the investigation and the possibility of a coverup. In March 20, 1995's "Doubts Linger Over Clinton Aide's 'Suicide'", Evans-Pritchard reported:
A series of U.S. media reports has stated that Kenneth Starr, the special counsel probing the Whitewater scandal over an unsuccessful Arkansas development company half-owned by Bill and Hillary Clinton, is wrapping up his probe of Foster's death. ... But ... if anything, he has been stepping up his investigation. He has called 11 witnesses before a federal grand jury in Washington, and has elicited testimony from three of them that suggests the body was moved and that the crime scene was tampered with in a police cover-up.
[Starr's] investigators are disturbed by conflicting testimony from witnesses about Foster's state of mind before his death. Key figures have changed their stories, raising suspicions that there may have been an orchestrated attempt after the fact to make it look as if Foster was in the grip of a deep depression.
There is no doubt that Foster was suffering a degree of depression. Lisa Foster told investigators that he was sleeping badly and suffering from a pounding heart. A week before his death he told his sister, Sheila Anthony, a top Justice Department official that he wanted to talk to a psychiatrist but needed assurances that nothing revealed in counselling sessions could be flushed out by subpoena at a later date.
A psychiatrist told the FBI that he was contacted on July 16 by Anthony, who explained that Foster was working on "Top Secret" issues at the White House and "that his depression was directly related to highly sensitive and confidential matters" (FBI file29D-LR-35063).
One of the suspicious circumstances around Foster's death is that White House staffers removed files from Foster's office on the night of his death. Files may have been related to the Whitewater affair, or to a NSA project Foster was working on, PROMIS software used to track international money flows.
Initial Whitewater investigator Robert Fiske issued a report ruling Foster's death a suicide. Nine days before the Senate Banking Committee held hearings on the death, Foster's family issued a statement endorsing the suicide verdict: "The family believe that questions as to how and why Vince died are now answered as best they can be. There is now no justification for painful, repetitious examination of these issues. The principal advocates for doing this appear chiefly motivated by mean-spirited partisanship."
However, the family did not write those words. Associate Attorney-General Sheila Anthony and her husband Beryl drafted the statement. Both are Democratic insiders with close Clinton ties.
In May 1, 1995's "White House aide was murdered, say experts," Evans-Pritchard details further evidence supporting the theory of murder and cover-up:
Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel, was probably murdered and his body carried into a park as part of a staged suicide, according to a team of independent crime-scene experts employed to investigate the death.
The private report is being taken extremely seriously by the official investigation of special counsel Kenneth Starr, according to sources close to the inquiry.
Foster was an intimate friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and handled their personal financial affairs at the White House. The US Park Police concluded that he shot himself in the mouth on July 20, 1993. Two subsequent inquiries endorsed the suicide verdict, but Starr has reopened the investigation and has called witnesses for the first time before a federal grand jury.
At a press conference on Thursday one of the experts, retired New York Police detective Vincent Scalice, said that in almost 30 years of police work he could not recall "ever running across a situation where we found a body in a case of suicide that was so neatly arranged, with the gun so conveniently positioned in the hand in such a straight, orderly fashion".
The report said that the lack of blood on the front of the body was "inconsistent" with death by a gun shot through the mouth, raising the likelihood that Foster's heart had stopped before the gun was fired.
The report was commissioned by the Western Journalism Center, a California group that supports investigative journalism.
The experts said that Foster was supposed to have walked 700 feet through a park, yet there was no soil or grass on his shoes. There was also no blood splatter on the vegetation and ground.
In May 22, 1995's "Secret Swiss link to White House death," Evans-Pritchard details revelations that Foster made unusual trips to Switzerland.
Foster flew to Switzerland on November 1, 1991 -- during the early stages of Bill Clinton's presidential bid -- returning November 3, giving him just one day on the ground. A year later, he did the same thing, flying to Switzerland December 7, 1992, -- during Clinton's presidential transition period -- and returning December 9. On July 1, 1993, he purchased another ticket to Switzerland, but never went. He received a refund for the unused ticket on July 8. He died less than two weeks later.
The Switzerland trips were just some of Foster's frequent flying. At the time of his death he had acquired more than 500,000 freqent flyer miles.
Foster's widow blames his depression on the massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, according to the FBI. "Lisa Foster believes that Foster was horrified when the Branch Davidian complex burned. Foster believed that everything was his fault," the FBI wrote of their interview with Lisa Foster.
A strange form of support for that theory comes in the form of a car burglary. The July 14, 1995 News and Observer reported that White House lawyer Cheryl Mills had her car broken into after preparing for a Senate hearing on Whitewater. In addition to her wallet, the burglar stole a gym bag containing Mills' notes on the Foster affair and on Waco.
During the 1995 U.S. House hearings on Waco, Texas Rangers disclosed that when they were in dispute with the FBI about the destruction of evidence, someone in the Texas Governor's office gave them Vince Foster's phone number to contact. The hearings revealed that the only document found in Foster's Waco file was a memorandum that Foster was forwarding "Waco, the Big Lie" (a videotape charging government conspiracy) to to the Treasury Department.
hey Doug whatever became of Allan Favish? wasnt he trying to get some Foster photos and or documents over the years? And whatever happened to Hugh Sprunt?
Based on photos and descriptions of the Ft. Marcy park scene, there is no way that Foster could have shot himself in the mouth -- and especially not at that location.
Foster's heart must have already been stopped when the .38 cal shot inside his mouth was inflicted. His white shirt and his "firing" hand were spotless -- and there was no pooled blood at the FMP scene.
"Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the roof of the mouth -- in Fort Marcy Park"? No way!
Not Barry Adler Seal. It’s Adler Barriman Seal.
and all on my birthday. First man on the moon on my 15th and Foster shot on my 39th. I wasn't aware that the Ted Kennedy manslaughter case was also on that day.
Thanks for correction - going mostly from memory.
There’s a name missing. He was a prominent Democratic fundraiser with a palatial home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (I’ve forgotten his name after all these years.) The Sunday before Foster died, he attended a meeting at that home with George Stephanapolous and a few others. Foster was frantic because his Swiss bank account had been drained, and he’d received an anonymous note telling him that the contents were now the property of the US Treasury. This is where Charlie Hayes, PROMIS and a rogue element within the CIA get involved. The issue that caused Foster’s terror was the source of that money — Mena.
You are absolutely correct. I spent 10 minutes on google trying to find his name but could not find it. He was supposed to have hosted a breachfront lunch with VF and Webb Hubbel the weekend before VF died.
Doug, bless you for remembering.
I’m sure JS93 appreciates you remembering also.
No question that Vince Foster was murdered, ever, in my mind.
All of the investigative reporters in the country, and none was curious about what happened, even when the facts never added up.
Seven and a half years more of Bubba’s and Her Heinous and their cohorts and their shenanigans would follow.
And this was only the beginning.
WOW..15 years since the Clintons killed Vince,,,,my how time flies!
Favish actually made arguments before the Supremen Court about the case under the FOIA.
Where has anyone said the clinton’s killed Foster?
I don’t know whether he killed himself or not, but I find it hard to believe he went to Fort Marcy Park to do so. Why bother?
Found it - Nathan Landow.
Thank you. I’m getting old.
NOTE: I made several calls to D’Amato’s office to tell them that Helen Dickey was lying when she said she learned of Foster’s death at around 10pm. I told them that the troopers were ready to testify to contradict her. D’Amato would have none of it. I think he publicly claimed that they didn’t want to testify. The last call was when I was yelling at them that D’Amato was covering it up and they hung up on me. I don’t go so far to say that he was murdered, but I do believe his body was moved to the park so the Park Police would handle it. The FBI would have immediately sealed his office and prevented the raids by Bernie Nussbaum, Susan Thomases, and Maggie Williams. They took the Whitewater files (Vince was their personal atty) and the tainted blood info. They took his computer. I think it was Gary Aldrich who told me that the computer was ultimately found being used by another govt worker. It had a brand new hard drive.
AFFIDAVIT
State of Arkansas }
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County of Pulaski }
On this day comes before me, a Notary Public, authorized to administer oaths, in and for the County of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, Roger Perry to me well known, who being first duly sworn, says, upon oath:
On the 20th day of July, 1993, I received a telephone call from a person known to me as Helen Dickey. I was working on the security detail at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas at that time. Dickey advised me that Vincent Foster, well known to me, had gotten off work and had gone out to his car in the parking lot and had shot himself in the head. I do not recall the exact time of this telephone call but am fairly certain it was some time from about 4:30 p.m. to no later than 7:00 p.m.
Dickey had previously been employed as a baby-sitter for Governor Clinton’s child and at the time of the call she was working at the White House in Washington, D.C. I then passed the message on to Governor Jim Guy Tucker through his wife.
During my tenure at the Governor’s Mansion I received a number of calls from Jennifer Flowers to Governor Clinton.
I have been told by Danny Furgeson, another trooper who was working security detail at the time, at the Governor’s Mansion, that he had talked with a young lady named Paula during a conferenec at the Excelsior Hotel and that he had taken her up to a room in that hotel at the direct request of then Governor Clinton. Danny has also stated that he talked with [P]aula at a restaurant in Little Rock during a chance meeting shortly before she filed her suit. He told her then, according to his conversation with me, that he would testify on her behalf if she did file suit against Clinton. I have read Danny’s answer to her suit and [see] that he admitted taking Paula up to Clinton’s room on that occasion.
Larry Patterson Affidavit. Click for full size picture.(104.1K)
AFFIDAVIT
State of Arkansas }
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County of Pulaski }
On this day comes before me, a Notary Public, authorized to administer oaths, in and for the County of Pulaski, State of Arkansas, Larry Patterson to me well known, who being first duly sworn, says, upon oath:
I received a telephone call from Roger Perry on the 20th day of July, 1993. Roger was working security detail at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock. He advised
me that a lady known to both of us as Helen Dickey had telephonically [contacted] him and advised him that Vincent Foster, well known to both of us because of his relationship with Hillary Clinton and his being an advisor to Governor Bill Clinton had gotten off work and had gone out to his car in the parking lot and had shot himself in the head. I do not recall the exact time of this telephone call but am fairly certain it was sometime before 6:00 p.m.
on that date.
Dickey was employed as a baby-sitter by Governor and Hillary Clinton while in Arkansas and at the time of the call she was working at the White House in Washington,
D.C.
I have been asked, under oath, whether Bill Clinton ever had extramarital affairs while he was Governor of Arkansas. I have replied that I knew Jennifer Flowers, who has said
she had an affair with Governor Clinton. I took him, on occasions to the Quapaw Towers, where she lived, and where he would meet with her. I have taken him to see other [females] with whom he had personal relationships, including one he met during the night at Chelsea Clinton’s schoolyard. I worked with Danny Furgeson, another trooper who was working security detail at the Governor’s Mansion. Danny told me that he had talked with a young lady named Paula Jones during a meeting at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock. He told me he had taken her up to a room in that Hotel after having been asked to by then Governor Bill Clinton. On one occasion I was with Governor Clinton when we met Paula Jones in the rotunda at the State Capital. The Governor referred to her as Paula as they hugged. Danny has also told me that he talked with Paula as a restaurant in Little Rock in the summer of 1994. At that time, Paula told Danny that she had learned she had been [mentioned] in a [negative] article about Bill Clinton. He told her then, according to his conversation with me, that he would testify in her behalf if she did file suit against Clinton.
I have read Danny’s answer to her suit and see that he admitted taking Paula up to Clinton’s room on that occasion. That agrees with what I kn[o]w about that situation.
Lynn Davis Affidavit. Click for full size picture.(82.8K)
(text portion only)
This is to certify that on the 20th day of July, 1993, I
received a telephone call from Roger Perry, of the Arkansas
State Police, who was a member of the Arkansas Governor’s
security detail.
Perry advised me that he had just received a telephone
call from one Helen Dickey, a [former] baby-sitter for Chelsea Clinton, who was employed at the White House and that she had advised him that Vincent Foster, known to both Perry and me, and gone to his car in the Parking Lot and had shot himself in the head.
I do not recall the exact time of the call, but I [place]
it as being during the rush hour at the White House and
[assumed] there must be many witnesses to the event. Perry
advised me that Helen Dickey was quite upset as if the event had happened shortly beforre her call to him. I estimate the time is being no later that six o’clock, Central Standard Time.
Perry advised me that he had telephonically contacted
Betty Tucker who had relayed the message to Governor Jim Guy
Tucker.
Landow was accused of being involved in trying to convince Kathleen Willey not to testify in the Jones case.
Justiceseeker93 sent me an email. He gets the credit for remembering.
Well, bless you anyway, FRiend!
Let's hope the truth comes out someday about Vince Foster's death. The truth is probably stranger than any of us realizes.
You want a plausible?... Vince was murdered by a female Chinese agent doing the clintons a favor. A small caliber, subsonic behind the ear sitting in her car, then the large caliber in the mouth to make it ‘show well’ in crime scene photos where he was placed in the park.
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