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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 61


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 61
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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DEATH OF VINCE FOSTER -- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
 
[From *The 700 Club*, April 18, 1995]
 
BEN KINCHLOW:
Joining us now, from Washington, is James Davidson, who is the 
editor of the *Strategic Investment Newsletter*, which is one of 
the more vocal critics of the Foster investigation.
 
And thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Davidson.
 
 
JAMES DAVIDSON:
My pleasure.
 
 
KINCHLOW:
Every detail, *ad nauseum*, of the O.J. Simpson case is front- 
page news, seemingly. Why does it seem that the death of a top 
White House lawyer has almost dropped off of the media's map?!
 
 
DAVIDSON:
You've asked one of the most puzzling questions, which I think 
historians, in the future, *will* ask about this crime, which in 
my mind is *clearly* a murder which has not been reported. And in 
many cases, prominent people in the press *know* that a cover-up 
took place.
 
And I'll give you just an example, which I think is incredibly 
important: On April the 4th of last year [1994], the *Wall Street 
Journal* ran an article by a woman named Ellen Pollock(sp?), 
which claimed that the Fiske investigation of Foster's death 
would determine that he was a suicide. And they quoted, by name, 
a Mr. Langler(?), who was the deputy to Fiske.
 
Now what makes this very, very incriminating is that the Senate 
Banking Committee, many months later, detailed a chronology of 
*when* the Fiske investigation interviewed the witnesses, 
obtained the FBI lab reports, and got the independent pathology 
reports. Basically, the evidence was only gathered *after* they 
had already told the *Wall Street Journal* that they were going 
to declare he was a suicide.
 
It's just as if [Judge] Lance Ito and the jurors in the Simpson 
trial had granted an interview to the *Wall Street Journal* a 
month before the trial began, and told everybody what the verdict 
would be! That is indicative of a very substantial perversion of 
the process of investigation.
 
 
TERRY MEEUWSEN:
Mr. Davidson, if Foster's death was not a simple suicide, what 
other potential scenario may have occurred, in your opinion?
 
 
DAVIDSON:
Well I'm not in a position to explain *why* he was murdered, or 
by whom. But I can certainly tell you that the evidence that has 
been gathered does not make any sense. You saw parts of a tape 
that has been prepared, which we invite anybody to look at (and I 
hope that many, many people do.) Because we need to bring 
pressure, right now, on the *current* investigation. Because Mark 
Touhy(sp?), who is the assistant special prosecutor under Mr. 
Starr, has been compromising this investigation. *Three* of the 
top investigators who are working on this case have *resigned*, 
recently, because they were frustrated and [were] refused 
permission to call witnesses before the grand jury and collect 
evidence.
 
I think we're in the process of having yet *another* cover-up of 
this man's murder.
 
And the evidence that he was murdered is *really* overwhelming -- 
the forensic evidence. This is another thing: when we talked 
about the press, and why they haven't reported this -- seven or 
eight of the top forensic experts in this country have testified 
that the pattern of powderburns on Foster's fingers is not 
consistent with suicide. Nysad Hyub(?) of the Lethal Force 
Institute said, "Inconsistent with what both experience and logic 
show us to be true of a suicidal person."
 
Dr. Richard Mason, who is a pathologist for Santa Cruz, 
California, says, "It doesn't make any sense."
 
Martin Thatchler(sp?), head of the U.S. Army's Wounds Ballistic 
Laboratory for many years, said, "If you have to ask, 'Is this an 
indication of foul play?'" He says, "Yeah. Maybe it is."
 
Robert Tawber(sp?), who was the firearms expert for the FBI SWAT 
team for many years, said, "I never heard of anyone gripping a 
gun like this."
 
You go down the line: very, very powerful forensic evidence shows 
that he [Foster] could not have fired the gun.
 
There are other, very strong bits of evidence that have been 
testified to, under affidavit. An Arkansas State Trooper named 
Roger Perry has testified in an affidavit and *told* the English 
press that he received a phone call from the White House at 5:30 
[p.m.] Arkansas time [6:30 p.m. Washington, DC], on the day 
Foster died, from a woman who is Chelsea Clinton's nanny, who was 
*hysterical* because, she said that Vincent Foster was dead in 
the parking lot of the White House!
 
Now these are very important clues that need to be investigated.
 
There was a photograph that was released, on ABC News, that 
showed Foster's hand, in a gun, with the trigger guard caught 
around his thumb. And it shows, clearly, a lot of thick 
vegetation around Foster's body. Yet the positioning of his body 
in the police reports and in the Fiske report put his body in a 
place where there was *no* vegetation. Experts have gone to that, 
to the park, and examined the vegetation photographed *in* that 
photograph. And they testified that *no* vegetation like that 
grows anywhere *near* where the police said his body was found!
 
You go down this list of anomalies: *Why* is his body covered, 
head to toe, with carpet fibers? There were no carpets on that 
park!
 
I think that the evidence is very clear that he was murdered, and 
his murder is being covered up for reasons of political 
convenience. And this makes the O.J. Simpson trial pale down to 
the size of a pimple, as compared to a cancer. This is a very, 
very important issue, and every American listening to this 
broadcast should write to your congressman and *insist* that the 
truth be told, regardless of what the consequences are in terms 
of political fallout.
 
 
KINCHLOW:
Mr. Davidson, let me ask you just one final question here (we're 
running out of time). But I just... There are people who say that 
this is simply more of the conspiracy-type theories, and you 
ought to let the man rest in peace. And some of your critics say 
you're simply *inventing* conspiracy theories about Foster.
 
Would you please respond to that, in about a minute?
 
 
DAVIDSON:
I'd be glad to debate anybody who claims that they have evidence 
that Foster is a suicide, and just look, specifically, point by 
point, at the evidence. If Fiske, in his report, or Touhy, in his 
current cover-up, were to come forward with explicit, rational 
answers for the amazing anomalies and evidence that *show* that 
he was murdered, then I would say, "Well fine. Then he was 
murdered... if he was a suicide, that is."
 
The reason that I'm upset about this is because I believe we're 
seeing happening to the United States what has happened to Mexico 
and other countries: where prominent people, even top government 
officials, can be murdered if they know something that 
compromises somebody in power. And that's it! They just cover it 
up and they go on about their business as if it never happened!
 
 
KINCHLOW:
Mr. James Davidson, thank you very much. We've interviewed the 
editor of the *Strategic Investment Newsletter*. Thank you for 
being with us. It was a pleasure to have you with us today.
 
 
DAVIDSON:
My pleasure.
 
 
MEEUWSEN:
Very interesting.
 
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