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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 06


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 06
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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WHY DID VINCE FOSTER DIE?
 
I recently came across a book called *"Slick Willie" II*. It 
gives a good overview of the myriad of Clinton fishiness we have 
all been having to live with. "Clinton, the 'fishy' President". 
"There's something 'fishy' about the guy". No, I am not a 
Republican, in fact since 1972 (but excluding 1992), I have 
always voted Democratic. Also, I haven't been to church in years, 
so I'm not the "religious right".
 
My motivation in continuing to speak out against "Fish Stories" 
Clinton is, in part, my understanding of the harmful effect of 
living in denial. I remember seeing a poster once that said, "If 
one of your parents drinks too much, you can see what it's doing 
to them. *But can you see what it's doing to you*?" In a similar 
vein, "If Bill 'Whoppers' Clinton lies and nothing is being 
seriously said, *can you see what it's doing to the United 
States*?" We have (A) Clinton lies; (B) Everyone "forgets" that 
he lies, the press continues to report new lies from "Tall Tales" 
Clinton as if they are worth listening to; (C) This is a strange 
situation. Nothing much is seriously said. Instead, there is 
denial.
 
This situation of denial can be correlated to a different 
hypothetical situation. Suppose Clinton was a habitual drunkard. 
Suppose that every few days he got roaring drunk and there were 
consequent embarrassing incidents: Clinton passes out on the 
Larry King show, Clinton passes out on the White House lawn, 
Clinton gets in a fist fight at a foreign embassy, etc. Now 
suppose most people denied that this was happening. Suppose the 
mass media decided, "Well, so what if he's a drunk. He's our 
drunk." Suppose the thought police, the academicians, began to 
say, "It's Republican propaganda," or "It's an attack by the 
religious right." You would have, like in fact we do *now* have, 
a nation in denial.
 
Bill Clinton is a pathological liar. His behavior is enabled by 
the press, who rarely call him to task for his lies. Again and 
again, Clinton lies, yet again and again the press features 
"Clinton's plans", "Clinton says this", "Clinton says that" -- as 
if the many and enormous past Clinton lies had never happened! 
The press features Clinton's latest press announcements as if 
"Sure, he has lied the past 99 times. But this time, let's hear 
what he has to say." The press are enabling Clinton's lies. The 
press are enablers. We, thanks to pathological liar Clinton and 
the press enablers, are having to be co-dependents in all this. 
So Clinton's lies are driving us all crazy!!
 
Denial is not good for us. "If Bill 'Whoppers' Clinton lies and 
nothing is being seriously said, *can you see what it's doing to 
the United States*?" So, part of the reason I keep pointing out 
certain anomalies is this: It's not healthy for me to live in 
denial. It's not healthy for me to just shrug my shoulders, say, 
"What can you do", and accept the denial.
 
So anyway, here is my summarization of the last chapter of 
*"Slick Willie" II* by Deborah J. Stone & Christopher Manion.
 
 +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +  +
 
"Foster knew these people, and he came to the conclusion that he 
had to resign from life."  -- U.S. Rep. James A Leach
                              January 12, 1994
 
 
Foster's was the first major Washington "suicide" since that of 
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in 1949. [CN -- However note 
that, for the record, there are those who dispute whether 
Forrestal's death *was*, in fact a suicide.] His death occurred 
on July 20, 1993. The initial reaction from persons in the 
administration to the news was surprise. One colleague called his 
apparent suicide unbelievable. Clinton described Foster as a 
"Rock of Gibraltar".
 
Then statements coming from the White House abruptly changed. 
Expressions of surprise at Foster's "suicide" stopped. Instead, 
Foster began to be characterized as being stressed out and 
unhappy with life in Washington. Dee Dee Meyers stated, "People 
had noticed he was down and were worried about him."
 
The book quotes an anonymous White House source which the authors 
call "Deepwater" as saying this change in reaction from the White 
House was a calculated maneuver; that it was spin control. Former 
chief of staff Nussbaum reportedly convened a special staff 
meeting to promote the new line that Foster had been "depressed".
 
But back in Little Rock, Foster's friends weren't buying it. 
While acknowledging that pressure may have been a factor, Doug 
Buford, friend and attorney, stated, "...something was badly 
askew." Foster's brother-in-law, a former congressman, also did 
not accept that depression was what had been behind the 
"suicide": "That's a bunch of crap." And Webster Hubbell, former 
Clinton deputy attorney general, phoned a mutual friend to say, 
"Don't believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't 
have been." [See also the Larry Nichols interview where Nichols 
reports that Foster's body was originally found in the White 
House parking lot.]
 
The investigation into the death of Foster, a high-ranking member 
of the Clinton White House, was unusual. For one thing, it was 
handled by the "Park Police", rather than by the renowned FBI. 
Who decided that the Park Police ought to handle it?
 
The Park Police did not proceed, as is normal, under the 
assumption that what they were investigating was a homicide. They 
assumed instead, from the outset, that they were indeed 
investigating a suicide.
 
The White House routinely got in the way of investigators. The 
Park Police arrived at the White House on July 21st in hopes of 
searching Foster's office. They were denied access by the 
administration. They returned on July 22, but were made to sit 
outside Foster's office, in the hallway, while Nussbaum, 
monitored by FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers, conducted 
the official search.
 
When the Park Police tried to conduct interviews of White House 
personnel, Nussbaum demanded that the interviews be monitored by 
members of Nussbaum's staff. Park Police spokesman Major Robert 
Hines declared himself unhappy with the lack of cooperation.
 
Nine days after Foster's death, our leaders, the *creme de la 
creme* of this nation, looked again in Foster's briefcase and 
discovered they had missed a "suicide note" penned by Vince (may 
he rest in peace) Foster. The note had been torn into 28 pieces, 
but the 28th piece could not be found. There were no fingerprints 
on the note, "a circumstance," according to the *New York Times*, 
"that some investigators have found hard to believe."
 
According to Bernard Nussbaum's then-Executive Assistant, Betsy 
Pond, "I think Vince wrote the stuff at the beginning and end, 
but..." and then she clams up. Indeed, the note itself begins in 
the first person ("I made mistakes from ignorance, inexperience 
and overwork. I did not knowingly violate any law or standard of 
conduct."), but then switches to third person for most of its 
contents, and finally reverts back to first person at the end. 
"Deepwater" believes that Pond thought the note was a forgery.
 
The bullet that supposedly killed Foster has never been found.
 
According to the *Boston Globe*, Foster was left-handed. Yet the 
supposed suicide gun, the unregistered 1913 Colt revolver, was 
placed -- oops, I mean found -- in Foster's right hand.
 
The chapter in *"Slick Willie" II* asks other questions, 
questions that have been asked in previous editions of Conspiracy 
Nation and its predecessor, Conspiracy for the Day. Why hasn't 
the autopsy report been released? What about the first medics on 
the scene who insist that they found Foster laid out "as if in a 
coffin"? What about Liddy's confidential witness, who has sworn 
over and over that there was no gun? How could Foster's shoes 
have been so clean if he had walked through the woods in Fort 
Marcy park? Why were no official crime scene photos taken?
 
The next time you see Mr. Rhodes Scholar doing his noble thoughts 
and faraway look in the eyes expression on the nightly news, ask 
yourself: How can he look so noble and yet be such a liar?
 
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  pauperem.                    -- Liber Proverbiorum  XXXI: 8-9 

 Brian Francis Redman    bigxc@prairienet.org    "The Big C"
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"Justice" = "Just us" = "History is written by the assassins."
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