
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 35
             ======================================
                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 
FOSTER "SUICIDE NOTE" FORGED
============================
[CN transcript from CBN News, "700 Club"
broadcast, October 26, 1995 -- Lead story]
 
 
LEE WEBB:
It is a story that will not go away.
 
There are new revelations in the death of White House counsel 
Vince Foster: three well-known handwriting experts now say a note 
found in Foster's briefcase after his death is a forgery. In 
addition, CBN News correspondent Ken Lormand reports the Senate 
Whitewater Committee is preparing to subpoena the White House for 
records in the case.
 
 
KEN LORMAND:
A panel of three forensic handwriting experts has determined that 
a note found in Vince Foster's briefcase shortly after his death 
was not written by Foster. This contradicts the findings of the 
U.S. Park Police and the investigation by former special 
prosecutor Robert Fiske.
 
After comparing what has generally been considered a "suicide 
note" to other documents known to have been written by Foster, 
Reginald Alton determined the note is a forgery. Alton is a 
world-recognized expert in handwriting and manuscript 
authentication.
 
 
REGINALD ALTON:
Characteristics of the hand are so markedly different from the 
known examples of Foster's handwriting. One can't normally 
authenticate something or say that it's a forgery from 
photocopies, but the differences in this case are, in my opinion, 
so marked, that one *can* say, definitively, from photocopies, 
that "Q1" is a forgery.
 
 
KEN LORMAND:
"Q1" is how Alton and the other handwriting experts label the 
Foster note. The panel's 3-month study was commissioned by James 
Dale Davidson, editor of the financial newsletter, "Strategic 
Investment".
 
 
JAMES DALE DAVIDSON:
The fact is, I believe, well-established here by these experts 
that are world-renowned, that Foster's so-called "suicide note" 
was forged and placed in his briefcase.
 
 
KEN LORMAND:
Davidson plans to forward his findings to independent prosecutor 
Kenneth Starr, who's looking into Foster's death and the entire 
Whitewater controversy.
 
Meanwhile, in a related matter, the Senate Whitewater Committee 
is expected to vote today to subpoena White House records it's 
seeking in *its* investigation into Foster's death. Committee 
Republicans have accused the Clinton administration of shredding 
duplicate documents and withholding telephone records. The White 
House says it is fully co-operating with the committee but has 
been overwhelmed by the committee's request for thousands of 
documents. Republicans say phone records, just obtained, suggest 
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton likely was very involved in the 
effort to prevent law enforcement officials from searching Vince 
Foster's office after his death. The records seem to contradict 
the testimony of several witnesses.
 
The committee is expected to issue subpoenas recalling Margaret 
Williams, the First Lady's chief of staff, and Hillary's close 
friend, Susan Thomases. The committee *may* even call Hillary 
Clinton to testify in an effort to resolve questions about her 
conversations with Thomases and Williams.
 
Ken Lormand, CBN News, Washington.
 
 
LEE WEBB:
Well, Terry, John Bates, an associate counsel with Kenneth Starr, 
the counsel in this case, says that the investigation of the 
Foster episode is "open and ongoing". This is a story that will 
*not* go away. There must be something here that bears looking 
into.
 
 
TERRY MEEUWSEN:
Well if the note is indeed forged and was placed there, it's 
obviously a cover-up of some kind. It will be interesting to see 
what comes out of all of this.
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
     I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation."
-----------------------------------------------------------------
  For information on how to receive the new Conspiracy Nation 
  Newsletter, send an e-mail message to bigred@shout.net
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Want to know more about Whitewater, Oklahoma City bombing, etc? 
(1) telnet prairienet.org (2) logon as "visitor" (3) go citcom
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et 
  pauperem.                    -- Liber Proverbiorum  XXXI: 8-9 

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
O what fine thought we had because we thought    | bigred@shout.net
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.  | Illinois,
  -- W.B. Yeats, "Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen" | I'm your boy.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=


