.id AA15058; Mon, 31 Jul 95 17:39:52 CDT
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 17:39:52 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 70



              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 70
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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Here is the full context of remarks made by me in response to 
statements by Chip Berlet:

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[...]

One last point: there was this guy, Michael Aquino, who was
very upset that I had posted some material by Dave Emory in
which Emory said some unflattering things about Mr. Aquino.
You may know that Mr. Aquino reportedly claims to be "The Devil".
Anyway, Mr. Aquino was all upset. So what did the mighty, so-called
"Devil" do? Did he send his fiendish imps from Hell to torment
me with hot pitchforks? No. The alleged "Devil" made noises
(as are you) of libel, etc. So I thought to myself, "What kind
of puny 'Devil' is this, that goes running to lawyers when he
gets in a jam?" (And I also thought, "How can you defame someone
who is supposedly going around saying that they are 'The Devil'?"
If you've got someone that, allegedly, has claimed to be "The
Devil", it seems to me that they have already pretty much
"defamed" themselves as much as is possible.)

So you may wonder -- "But what does that have to do with me?"
Answer: I have locked horns with "The Devil", buddy boy, and
compared to him, you ain't sh**.

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.id AA13132; Mon, 31 Jul 95 20:44:20 CDT
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 20:44:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Vince, We Hardly Knew Ye (part 19)


Vince, We Hardly Knew Ye
Part 19

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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JANUARY 15, 1995
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        FROM THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (LONDON), 15 JAN. 1995

           WHITE HOUSE SUICIDE - WAS THE BODY MOVED?    

            BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD IN WASHINGTON


THE SCOPE of the inquiry into the mysterious death of the top 
White House aide Vincent Foster has suddenly been broadened, 
casting doubt on the original verdict of suicide.

It has now emerged that Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel 
investigating the Whitewater affair, which concerns alleged shady 
business deals linked to President Clinton and his wife, summoned 
several police officers before a Grand Jury late last week.

During the meeting he took the unusual step of reading them the 
statutory definition of perjury. The officers were grilled on the 
precise circumstances surrounding the discovery of Foster's body 
in a Virginia park in July 1993.

The cause of death of Foster, an intimate friend of the Clintons, 
had been considered settled by most observers in Washington. An 
inquiry by Robert Fiske, the former independent counsel who was 
later replaced by a panel of judges, endorsed the police 
conclusion that Foster shot himself in the mouth. He attributed 
the suicide to depression unrelated to the Whitewater property 
dealings of the Clintons.

However, Mr Fiske did not convene a Grand Jury for that part of 
his investigation. This was considered strange by many legal 
experts. The rescue workers and park police who found the body 
did not testify under oath, and Mr Fiske essentially confined 
himself to a review of their report rather than conducting a full- 
scale probe of his own.

The grand jury questioning last week, which took place in secret, 
appeared to focus on the precise location of Foster's body in the 
park. One of the police officers was overheard reassuring a grand 
juror in the lobby that he would bring a map to assist testimony 
the next day.

The seemingly minor issue of where the body was found could turn 
out to be of critical importance. A journalist for the 
*Pittsburgh Tribune-Review*, Chris Ruddy, has been fighting a 
lone crusade for several months seeking to establish that the 
Park Police misreported the location of the body.

Ruddy is convinced that it is the key to exposing a cover-up that 
allegedly involves the police, the White House, and even elements 
of the FBI.

If Ruddy is right, it suggests a political scandal of colossal 
proportions.

On Thursday, an article by Ruddy in the *Tribune-Review* alleged 
sloppiness in the Fiske investigation and argued that key 
witnesses may have given false testimony.

His latest revelation is that Dr Donald Haut, the Virginia 
medical examiner who viewed the scene of the crime on the night 
of Foster's death, said the body was 10 to 20 yards past an old 
civil war cannon, the first cannon in the park.

This is in direct contradiction to the Fiske Report, which said 
that the body was at the foot of a second cannon deep inside the 
park. The testimony of Dr Haut, who said he was never questioned 
by the Fiske investigation, corroborates early statements by a 
Fairfax County rescue worker, George Gonzalez, and several other 
sources who all said the body was in tangled undergrowth near the 
first cannon.

The Ruddy article was republished as a full-page advertisement in 
the *Washington Times* on Friday, paid for by a conservative 
media watchdog in California called the Western Journalism 
Center. Both Ruddy and the Center are already being sued for 
libel by the Park Police, who insist that their report was 
accurate.

Questions about Foster's death have been a staple of radio talk 
shows across America. According to extensive interviews conducted 
by *The Sunday Telegraph*, suspicions are also shared by some 
members of the Foster family and parts of the FBI.

Senator Lauch Faircloth, a Republican member of the Banking 
Committee that held brief hearings into Foster's death last July, 
has also raised doubts about the suicide verdict.

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 Brian Francis Redman    bigxc@prairienet.org    "The Big C"
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