.id AA20300; Sat, 22 Jul 95 12:34:12 CDT
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 12:34:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Vince: We Hardly Knew Ye (part 11)


Vince: We Hardly Knew Ye
Part 11

Being a recap of the death, and various ongoing investigations 
into same, of White House aide Vincent Foster, jr.

(With apologies to his family, who prefer to "let sleeping 
Fosters lie.")

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With the U.S. about to invade Bosnia in order to promote peace 
("War is peace"); with things getting a little hot in Washington 
(and not just the weather) for that big, lovable clown from 
Arkansas; with investigations heating up; with the "special 
people" beginning to panic -- how convenient for the comfortable 
classes that the situation in Bosnia should heat up just about 
now.

So that the commissar class doesn't get *too* comfortable, I 
thought I'd offer a bit of a history lesson on the death, as well 
as the on-and-off investigations into same, of Vincent Foster, jr.

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APRIL 18, 1994
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Excerpts from Robert Novak's syndicated column, which appeared in 
the _Washington Post_ (18 April 1994) under the headline "G. 
Gordon Liddy and the Mystery Witness":

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"FBI agents last Thursday interviewd a man claiming to be the 
long-sought mystery witness who found the body of Vince Foster. 
He was delivered to them by an alumnus of the bureau, Gordon 
Liddy of Watergate notoriety, who informed the agents that the 
witness said he saw no gun in the hand of the dead White House 
aide."

"All reports had a revolver found in Foster's hand. Thus, if this 
indeed is the 'man in the white van' alleged to have first 
discovered Foster's body, an assertion that he saw no gun would 
pose serious questions for Whitewater Special Counsel Robert 
Fiske's investigation."

"Assuming Foster committed suicide, did he do so in an 
inconvenient place? Then, did someone move his body and put it in 
a park on the Virginia shore of the Potomac? If so, who did it?"

"Soon after Liddy wrote Fiske to report he had been contacted by 
the missing witness, FBI agents called him [Liddy]. . . ."

<I omit the text which restates what can be found in the transcript
of Liddy's radio program, Radio Free DC.>

"After he sent this account to Fiske, Liddy said he was visited 
by FBI agents April 12. He told me the agents informed him they 
had been close to finding the missing witness themselves. Liddy 
then talked the man into seeing the agents on a confidential 
basis. According to Liddy, the man repeated -- before going into 
a private session with the FBI -- that 'there was no gun in his 
hand.'"

"Foster's death spawned so active a conspiracy-school industry 
that any supposed breakthrough must be suspected as a possible 
hoax. Liddy is a former prosecutor and says he is convinced the 
informant is authentic. He told me the man meets the description 
given by Swan: 'Heavy-set, white, in his mid-40s.' He said he 
also inspected the white utility van parked in the man's 
driveway."

"As for Liddy's credibility, he often has been called a zealot 
but never a liar."

"Nor is it likely he would endanger his rebuilt career by 
concocting this story."

"Fiske's lawyers in Little Rock presumably now have the FBI's 
report  that suggests the possibility something is being hidden 
about the death of Vince Foster. The special counsel has no more 
important obligation than either to uncover such deception or to 
set the matter to rest once and for all."

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 Brian Francis Redman    bigxc@prairienet.org    "The Big C"
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    Coming to you from Illinois -- "The Land of Skolnick"        
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