Vince Foster was born in Hope, Ark.,
and had been a childhood friend of Bill Clinton. Later, he worked at the Rose
Law Firm in Little Rock with Hillary Clinton.
When Bill Clinton became President of
the United States, Foster became White House Deputy Council and overseer of
various Clinton legal entanglements.
On July 23, 1993, six months after Bill
Clinton became President, Vince Foster told his secretary he would be right
back and walked out of his office.
Foster's sister and her daughter were
to arrive from Little Rock later that day, and the three of them were planning
to tour the White House.
That was the last time Foster was seen
alive.
Several hours later, Foster was found
dead in Fort Mercy Park just outside of Washington D.C. in a Virginia suburb.
In spite of countless suspicious
circumstances, the death was subsequently ruled a suicide.
Those who ruled it a suicide would have
you believe that Vince Foster drove to a park he had never been known to visit,
parked his car, hiked several hundred yards from the parking lot (without a
trace of park dirt on his shoes), sat down on the damp ground (there was dew on
the ground at the time of death), put a revolver in his mouth and pulled the
trigger.
Why not just kill himself in his car or
sitting on a park bench or in his own home?
Even though Foster supposedly placed
the barrel of the gun in his mouth, there was a lack of blood at the scene, no
skull fragments and no fingerprints on the gun. Even if he had died instantly,
his heart would have remained pumping blood out of the wounded area.
There was only a trickle of blood from
the mouth and nose -- but one of the trickles appeared to have flowed upward,
suggesting the body had been moved prior to discovery.
Gunshot residue was found on Foster's
palm, not the back of the hand which would have been consistent with the body
positioning. Perhaps it was on the palm because he was trying to repel an
attacker.
Neither of Foster's hands was on the
handgrip when the weapon was fired.
The U.S. Park Police had legal
jurisdiction of the case. Before they could arrive to seal Vince Foster's
office for evidence, Margaret Williams (Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff)
carried several boxes of papers out of Foster's office.
Bernard Nussbaum was also seen
searching Foster's office. When the Park Police arrived, Nussbaum showed them
Foster's briefcase, opening and upending it to demonstrate it was empty.
This is the very same briefcase where
Foster's supposed suicide note turned up, three days later, torn into 28
pieces, with one piece missing, completely void of fingerprints and containing
no signature.
The "suicide note" read as
follows:
"I
made mistakes from ignorance, inexperience and overwork. I did not knowingly violate
any law or standard of conduct. No one in The White House, to my knowledge,
violated any law or standard of conduct, including any action in the travel
office. There was no intent to benefit any individual or specific group. The
FBI lied in their report to the AG. The press is covering up the illegal
benefits they received from the travel staff. The GOP has lied and
misrepresented its knowledge and role and covered up a prior investigation. The
Ushers Office plotted to have excessive costs incurred, taking advantage of
Kaki and HRC. The public will never believe the innocence of the Clintons and
their loyal staff. The WSJ editors lie without consequence. I was not meant for
the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered
sport."
It doesn't exactly read like a suicide
note.
And how do you tear a note into 28
pieces without leaving a fingerprint?
Furthermore, it was declared to be a
forgery by three of the world's leading handwriting experts:
- Prof. Reginald Alton (manuscript authenticator)
- Ronald Rice (chief handwriting expert for the American Board of Forensic Examiners)
- Vincent Scalice (certified handwriting examiner).
There are many other disturbing
inconsistencies that seem to suggest foul play.
For example, Vince Foster was well over
6 feet tall, yet his car seat was in the forward position, suggesting being
driven by a much shorter person.
Even though Foster's pockets were
thoroughly searched by investigators at the scene, the car keys could not be
found, yet the keys later turned up at the morgue.
The positioning of the body and lack of
damage to teeth from the .38 recoil are inconsistent with suicide.
And so on and so on.
With so much contradictory evidence,
one would expect his longtime friend and boss, the President of the United
States, to insist upon further investigation.
To the contrary, a rather puzzling
event took place -- on July 21, the very next day after the
"suicide," Bill Clinton retained David Kendall, a prominent criminal
attorney.
The ghost of Vince Foster does not
haunt Fort Mercy Park – it haunts a nation that believes in justice.
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Quote for the Day –"It depends on
what the word 'is' is." Bill Clinton
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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark
Mountains with a few dogs and an imaginary girlfriend named Tequila
Mockingbird.
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