Posted on 07/10/2018 8:26:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Brett Kavanaugh, the federal judge who is the president’s nominee for Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, played a key role in the Vince Foster investigation.
The death of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s White House lawyer has spawned legions of conspiracy theories. Kavanaugh, who served in the George W. Bush administration and who helped Ken Starr write the Starr Report into Bill Clinton, was in the middle of some of the 1990s’ most dramatic controversies involving the Clintons. Among them: The death of Vince Foster, which was ruled a suicide.
Here’s what you need to know:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, his wife Ashley Estes Kavanaugh (off frame) and their two daughters stand by US President Donald Trump after he announced his nomination in the East Room of the White House on July 9, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin once called Brett Kavanaugh the “Zelig or Forrest Gump of Republican politics…whether it’s Elian Gonzalez or the Starr Report, you are there.” Add Vince Foster’s death to that list.
According to The Washington Post, Kavanaugh “was tasked in 1994 with investigating the death of Clinton’s deputy counsel, Vincent Foster.”
Kavanaugh earned this role because he worked in the office of Ken Starr. “Kavanaugh and the rest of Starr’s investigators concluded that it was indeed a suicide,” Vox reported of Foster’s death.
The New York Times concurred, reporting, “Working for Mr. Starr, Judge Kavanaugh concluded that Mr. Foster had in fact killed himself.”
Maggie Williams (L), Chief of Staff for US First Lady Hillary Clinton, and New York lawyer and Clinton family friend Susan Thomases(R) testify before the Senate Whitewater Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC 02 November. The committee questioned the two about phone calls dealing with restricting access to documents in the office of White House Counsel Vincent Foster after his death.
One issue with Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is the extensive nature of his paper trail. In addition to working on the Foster case, he helped Starr with the investigation and impeachment of Bill Clinton, even helping author the Starr Report. Furthermore, he served in the administration of former President George W. Bush before Bush named Kavanaugh to the federal bench.
All that has given critics and supporters a lot of paper to dig through. Among those papers are some documents on Vince Foster’s death, according to Politico. The site reports that Kavanaugh compiled about 20,000 documents during his tenure with Starr, although they deal with many topics.
Here is the government manifest listing the documents in the archives.
Here are some of the Vince Foster documents that Politico pulled out of the Kavanaugh records:
Arkansas: U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno (C) talk 23 July 1993 before entering St. Andrews Catholic Cathedral to attend services for deputy White House counsel Vince Foster.
The only case that Kavanaugh argued before the U.S. Supreme Court dealt with Vince Foster’s death and attorney-client privilege questions. Kavanaugh had joined Starr’s office after graduating from Yale Law School.
According to Vox, Kavanaugh wanted to force Foster’s lawyer to hand over his notes “on their conversation shortly before Foster’s death.” However, the Supreme Court disagreed in a 6-3 decision, saying the release was prevented by attorney-client privilege.
Kavanaugh argued that the attorney-client privilege Foster enjoyed ended with his death, according to The New York Times.
FBI finger print expert Louis Hupp testifies about prints found on papers belonging to Vincent Foster during Senate Whitewater hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, 02 August. Hupp testified that he was unable to identify various prints (shown on television monitor) found on pieces of a torn up note belonging to Foster.
Conspiracy theory websites have sprouted up to trash Brett Kavanaugh for supposedly “covering up” Vince Foster’s “murder,” although the death was ruled a suicide.
Roger Stone, who once worked as an adviser to President Donald Trump (and has a long and controversial career in Republican politics), is among those making the claims via Alex Jones’ infamous Infowars site.
President Trump himself once declared Foster’s death “very fishy,” saying, Foster “knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide,” according to Vox.
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Who was Vince Foster? He was a close friend of the Clintons who had followed them to Washington from Little Rock, where he worked as an attorney and, according to Vox, “lived across the street from Bill Clinton when they were very young, and who was later responsible for hiring Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm.”
A 1994 article in the Washington Post on Foster’s death being declared a suicide described his depression in the final days, “As depression consumed him, Vince Foster found it hard to eat, to sleep. He could not concentrate at work. His sense of humor dried up. His heart pounded and his stomach boiled.”
First, Special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. ruled Foster’s death in Fort Marcy Park a suicide. According to The Post, that investigation involved “four lawyers, five physicians, seven FBI agents, approximately 125 witnesses; also DNA tests, microscopes and lasers.” The article reports that Foster’s depression and anxiety had escalated in Washington D.C. due to the turmoil in and outside of the Clinton White House. He committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, according to The Post.
BOL! There you go again using reality instead of dream dust!
“Kavanaugh had joined Starr’s office after graduating from Yale Law School.”
He just graduated from law school! He wasn’t “in charge” of ANYTHING. He did what he was told.”
Wonder if he had passed his bar exam yet?
By Mr. Plum in the Kitchen.
That Hillary sure gets around. Chelsea was fathered by Web Hubbell, she comparing carpets with Huma, now I learn she was having an affair with Vince?
Sheesh.
Foster and Hillary had an affair.
Oh please, if you really believe that I have swamp land in Death Valley to sell you.
I can lead a gator to water but I can’t make him drink.. :-)
What nutty ideas? Anyone who believes Vince Foster committed suicide either wasn't paying attention at the time or isn't playing with a full deck. Start with my The Vincent Foster Op-ed Contest (Redux) posted here back in 2005.
ML/NJ
I bet the Clinton’s are none too happy about this pick.
Remember who Trump is - ‘The Master of the Deal’
Has Kavanaugh been given the SC seat as he has agreed in return to finally expose those responsible for the murder of Vince ?
It’s a price worth paying g !
Has Kavanaugh been given the SC seat as he has agreed in return to finally expose those responsible for the murder of Vince ?
You don’t think the idea of Brett Kavanaugh playing a key role in the coverup of Vince Foster’s death is a nutty idea?
I do.
These articles assume the premise that Foster was a suicide. If you read as much info as you can get about the case, you learn that
1. It is impossible Foster killed himself there where he was found. NOT POSSIBLE.
2. Everything about the case is so suspicious that there is serious doubt whether he killed himself at all, anywhere.
3. Therefore, He died elsewhere, and HE WAS BROUGHT TO THE PARK IN A ROLL OF CARPET.
4. Therefore, others were involved in this suicide coverup, or murder.
5. Therefore, the shady characters in the Not Foster’s Car, as seen by the one eyewitness, probably did exist. What reason would the witness (Knowlton) have to lie? It certainly hurt him greatly to testify.
6. Therefore, Knowlton was right to be stunned and insulted when Kavenaugh on his own, before the grand jury, accused Knowlton of being at the park to take drugs or tryst with men.
7. Therefore, Kavenaugh has some moral flaws that need explaining.
The Deep State rolls along.
Just had his beer googles on , you gotta have relief sometimes ,
Wikipedia says, "Kavanaugh led the investigation into the suicide of Clinton aide Vince Foster." I believe that anyone who was even peripherally involved in that "investigation" and didn't do at least what Miguel Rodriguez did is tainted. Kavanaugh has almost no history outside government. He is probably the one I would least favor among Trump's 25.
ML/NJ
The day after Foster was killed, a former Arkansas trooper who was working in the White House, mysteriously was offered an executive position in FEMA and I think he moved back to Arkansas. He was a big man fully capable of secretly carrying Foster out of the White House. Also related to Foster’s death was the murder of Jerry Parks.
Hillary had Vince Foster hire Jerry Parks, a private investigator in Arkansas, to gather evidence about all of Slick Willy’s affairs just in case she would need that info to divorce Slick Willy. When Hillary decided that she didn’t want that info made public, she told Foster to get all of that info from Parks. Unfortunately, Parks refused to give up the info. So, Hillary had Foster iced. Shortly after Foster was killed, Parks told his son that he was a dead man. Parks started carrying a gun, but it didn’t save him from the two men who approached him while he was stopped at an intersection and they shot and killed Parks. Shortly thereafter (according to his son), agents from the FBI, the IRS and the CIA came to Parks’ home and removed his computer and all of his files.
Just another notch on Hillary’s bedpost...along with Seth Rich!!!
All Righty Then.
You believe we will have (upon confirmation) a Supreme Court Justice who is complicit in the murder of one Vincent Walker Foster Jr.
This place gets nuttier every day.
Not complicit in the murder, but complicit in the coverup!
“He just graduated from law school! He wasn’t “in charge” of ANYTHING. He did what he was told.”
There you go, injecting facts and stuff.
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