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Director Fired, 1993 -- Judge William Sessions is the first FBI director in American history to be fired. Clinton fires Sessions and immediately replaces him with White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum crony, Louis Freeh. Nussbaum later resigns after evidence emerges he obstructed Foster death investigation.

Vincent Foster Death Investigation, 1993-? -- The day after Sessions is fired, Clinton friend and White House aide Vincent Foster is killed.

July 2: The White House issues a report on the travel office, written by outside auditors. Although the report does not criticize Foster directly, it says his office could have averted the incident but failed to do so. (Why this big attention on the travel office matter to the exclusion of everything else?

Foster really had nothing to do with the travel office, but he was--quite illegally--working on the Clinton's private finances, apparently hung up on getting their investments into a blind trust, something that, by law, should have been done before Clinton assumed office. In that illegal capacity for a government employee, Foster probably knew more about the Clinton family finances than any man then alive, and he is now safely beyond subpoena.

Notice, too, that there is no mention of Foster's meeting with Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell and Nathan Landow at Landow's Eastern Shore estate just two days before Foster died. There is also no mention of the curious one to two hour closed-door meeting with Clinton political fixer Marsha Scott the day before he died. Scott claims not to remember what they talked about. Landow was never interviewed by anyone, either in the government or the press.)

Landow's closest connection to Clinton is son-in-law Michael Cardozo, who ran the now-defunct Clinton legal trust. He is married to Landow's daughter Harolyn, who worked with Willey as a White House volunteer in 1993.

Landow says he considers Willey a friend of the family, and did fly Willey to his estate on the eastern shore of Maryland for a two-day stay.

But Landow told CNN it was Willey, not anyone at the White House, who asked him to do that, and he denies trying to influence her testimony.

I've never understood how Clinton was able to fire Sessions. Isn't the reason an FBI Director has a 10-year term precisely to avoid a political firing? Granted, some charges of impropriety were being made against Sessions, but they struck me as penny-ante stuff, and I could never understand how anybody could think they justified Sessions's firing.