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-Hillary does. The great first continued to refer to Foster’s Who Killed impression was a long time ago. killing as a “suicide“; from But we may also be getting to Vince Foster? then on, general speculation know Hillary. What has already shifted to possible reasons or emerged about her Whitewater by Murray N. Rothbard signs of Foster’s supposed doings shows how very true it is ”depression” that had led him that greedy people were break- You read it first in RRR to this alleged act. ing the law to make money [I’ Foster g a t e,” September The dismissal of the Foster during the Reagan years, just 19931. More and more, it looks slaying as a “suicide” suc- as the Clintons have always as if the key to Whitewatergate ceeded in burying the Foster said. Her secret life in Arkansas and to much else that is rotten Affair for several months. is coming as a surprise even to in the Clinton Administration Then, in early December, the her critics, who have tended to centers on the mysterious Foster death, along with see her as a sort of fanatic and slaying on July 20 of the White Whitewatergate, came rapidly to credit her with afanatic‘smoral House counsel and long-time to the fore. It was discovered integrity. But the key to her is lover/and partner of Hillary that chief White House coun- ambition-a passion that has Rod ham, Vincent Fos t e r, sel Bernard Nussbaum had consistently subdued her sup- Jr. What do we know about spirited out of Foster’s White posed feminism. And judpg by Foster’s death? Vince Foster House office, apparently what has already transpired, left the White House at 1:OO under the noses of the the Whitewater revelations P.M. on the 20th, in an appar- bumbling Park Police, a crucial will reveal more about her than ently normal mood, after file on Foster’s desk: a file (or about Bill, possibly including having spent most of the files) dealing with the White- the rumored affair between her morning grappling, as a key water Affair. Nussbaum then and Vincent Foster. At any figure and attorney with the gave the file(s) into the safe- rate, the Clintons have gone tangled matters of White- keeping of the Clinton’s per- to great lengths to keep the Watergate. Foster was not seen sonal lawyer, David Kendall. secrets secret. alive again; his body was dis- It was Nussbaum‘s curious Bill wasn’t the only one who covered at about 6:OO P.M. in taking of the Foster Whitewater lied to the American people remote Fort Marcy Park on the file that sparked the agitation that famous night on 6oMinufes. Potomac. Foster had been shot for the Clintons to come clean It was Hillary who, in effect, in the head and killed. [Fort on Whitewatergate, and grabbed the mike and insisted Marcy is more a lookout over finally to the naming of the that the marriage had been the river off the highway, than special prosecutor. repaired. She expressed her a ”park”.] Time of death was By mid-January, further- contempt for standing by one’s estimated at between 4:OO more, the Nussbaum removal of man, Tammy Wynette-style, and 5:OO P.M. the Whitewater file had skyrock- even as she was standing by The investigation was eted in importance. For it was her nominal man; later she quickly handed over to the discovered that Nussbaum would vent her derision Park Police, an outfit with either separately, or together against cookie-baking wives, expertise largely devoted to with at least two other people: only to bake cookies for her spearing litter in the park. The Hillary’s own chief of staff, Bill, like Lady Macbeth in a Park Police quickly pro- Maggie Williams, and Bill little apron, though she may nounced the death a ”suicide” Clinton’s special assistant, still have been carrying on and, even though the autopsy Patsy Thomasson of the noto- with Foster at the time. report has never been released rious Thomasson clan in In its way the Clinton marriage to the public, the lapdog media Arkansas, removed the file is working. Which is not to say obediently went along with from Foster’s office on July 20, that anyone’s enjoying it. 1 this unproven hypothesis, and the day of Foster’s death, and

5 March1994 not, as the White House had Willie at 10 P.M., after Willie was discovered lying straight previously claimed, two days had finished a stint on the on a hill, "every extremity later on July 22. Larry King show. straight, as if it were ready for Since that disclosure, two In short, the White House the coffin." The gun which fascinating discoveries have did not know about the discov- shot him in the mouth was been made in the Mysterious ery of the body of Vince Foster clutched in Foster's right hand. Death of Vincent Foster. First, until 9:15 P.M. But in that case, There were many anomalies the Wall Street Journal, in a why oh why did Nussbaum, here. In the first place, the lengthy editorial of January 14 Williams, and Thomasson body, in such a case, should ["The Foster Test,"] indicated remove the file, which they be consistent with the person's the truly sensational implica- presumably did during office original position. In other tions of this new chronology of hours, that is, long before 9:OO words, Foster should have the Foster Case. I urge our P.M. of July 20??Why did they been lying down if he shot readers to get ahold of this WSJ remove the file when, as far as himself' in the mouth. The editorial, and read it careMy they knew, Foster was not bullet would then have been preferably more than once. dead, and would return to his lodged in the ground behind Secondly, the intrepid New office the following morning, him. And yet the police were York Post sent investigative so that there would be no need never able to find the bullet. reporter Christopher Ruddy to to spirit the Whitewater file out Where is the Foster Bullet? inquire into the body and the of the office for safekeeping? The police speculated the slaying itself, with some sensa- ?he wconcludes its account Foster bullet "must" have tional conclusions of his own with these intriguing words: gone back into the woods. But [Christopher Ruddy, "Doubts "Let us specify, lest compiling in that case, he would not have Raised Over Foster's 'Sui- these facts gets us accused of been lying straight and rigidly cide"', Post January 271. the dread crime of innuendo, on the ground. First, the WSJ chronology. that we do not know what to Secondly, when a person Foster died between 4 and 5 make of all this. But we do shoots himself in the mouth, a o'clock. No one knows who think it's high time someone reflex action usually hurls the found the body; apparently, found out." Amen! Those of gun up to 20 feet away from the person who called the you who don't mind commit- the body. It is unusual for a police was told of the body by ting innuendo in your heart suicide to remain, after death, its discoverer. The police and are invited to mull over the with the gun gripped tightly in ambulances arrived on the implications of this story. Espe- his hand. Vernon Geberth, a spot at 6:OO P.M. or a bit after. ciallywhen combined with the former New York detective It apparently took several investigation by Christopher who has written a nationally hours for the police to identdy Ruddy of the New York Post. recognized homicide-investi- the body and notify relevant Ruddy interviewed the gation textbook, says that gen- people. Thomas "Mack" Fairfax County paramedic erally "after the firing the gun McLarty, White House Chief of who was the first rescue is away from the person," Staff, and the boss of the White worker to see Foster's body; although he acknowledged House in the absence of the the first Park Policeman on the that in "rare" cases the suicide Clintons (who were vacation- scene; various other witnesses can keep gripping the gun. ing in Little Rock), only found to the body; and a medical Thirdly, the murder weapon about the Foster death at 9:15 examiner and former New was a .38 caliber Colt revolver. P.M. McLarty informed Hillary York City homicide investiga- A .38 Colt firing into the head of the death of their mutual tors and forensic experts with almost always results in a 'Itre- buddy Foster in a phone call to whom he discussed his find- mendous amount of blood, Little Rock at 9:45 P.M. (East- ings. Here is what Christopher blood all over the place,it ern time), and he told Slick Ruddy found: Foster's body would be a mess.. . [A] .38 makes a powerful explosion. second person who called the deflected by any phony, There’s a backwash of blood police; if this is what happened, coverup, ”Rehnquist” Com- and tissue.” And yet: every- does anyone in his right mind mission. This time, let‘s not get thing was remarkably clean; think the killer was a ”lone distracted by the moralequiva- there was little blood any- nut“? Why would a lone nut lent of the Fair Play for Cuba where. There were no pools of take the trouble tomovethe Committee, or by the Rus- blood around the body, no body andmakeit lookksuiade? sian Embassy, or Castro, or mess, no splattering of blood What would be the lone nut’s Sam Giancana or Jimmy on face or shirt, no blood on motive? A lone nut murderer of Hoffa. This time, let’s dare to the gun. Vince Foster is about as likely as think the unthinkable. W No blood anywhere; no bul- the notion that the guy who let; no mess; body lying rigid bangedNancy Kerriganontheleg and straight with gun clutched was a lone nut. So: if the murder in hand; what does all this imply? of Vince Foster was, say, a con- These facts all strongly imply tradhit, in light of More On that Vincent Foster, Jr., was the Wsjchronol- Who shot and killed by person or ogy, does anyone persons unknown, his body have an idea of Killed transported to Fort Marcy who might have Vince Park, laid straight on the taken out the ground, the gun placed into his contract? Foster? hand and his fingers wrapped Enough! We by around the gun. Clearly, there need an inde- M.N.R. would be no blood and no bul- pendent, tough, The stunning let if the murder had taken no-holds-barred article of Chris- place elsewhere. Congressional topher Ruddy in Was there time for all this? investigation, the New York You bet. Vincent Foster was armed with sub- Post (Jan. 27) last seen leaving the White poena power, casting strong House at 1 P.M., July 20. He financed by as doubt on Vince was ki 11e d, a p p a ren t 1y, much as it may Foster‘s ”suicide” between 4 and 5 P.M. and his take, which will brought forth a body reached by police and fearlessly go storm of calls rescue workers just after 6 P.M. into every nook upon the White There was plenty of time and cranny, and House for com- unaccounted for, to commit investigate ev- ment. Curiously, the deed and transport the ery likely suspect, without fear the White House referred all in- body. Furthermore, there is no or favor, and ashigh up asner- quiries to well-know Pitts- evidence that Vince Foster essary And following RRR’S burgh forensic pathologist, Dr. owned the fatal 1913 Colt .38 long-time exhortation to Cyril Wecht, who maintained revolver that did the foul deed. ”Exhume! Exhume!’’ the body that a suicide who shoots him- No member of the Foster family of every mysterious death self in the mouth is often found has been able to identdy the gun suffered by anyone occupy- with his hand clutched around as his. So: not only no bullet and ing or high up in the White the weapon. no blood, but no Foster gun. House, the body of Vincent The odd part about the If Vice Foster was murdered Foster should be exhumed Clinton Administration using and his body transported to the and analyzed by indepen- Dr. Wecht as their Court Pathole park, where someone, no one dent and fearless experts. gist on this issue, is that Wecht knows who, reported a body to a And this time, let’s not get is well-known to Kennedy

7 March1994 -Assassination Revisionists as an ently quite mmmon for a suicide graying hair and dressed in intrepid champion of the idea shot. But various homicide work clothes, pulled up to the that Jack Kennedy was not experts pointed out to Ruddy truck. Speaking through the killed by a "single bullet'' fired that it is highly unusual for a van window, the heavy-set by Lee Harvey Oswald. It was gun fired by a suicide into his driver told Swan: "There's a Dr. Wecht, too, who first called mouth to wind up clutched in dead body by the cannon up in attention to the fact that his hand. Thus, Dr. Lester Fort Marcy. Will you call the Kennedy's brain is missing in Adelson,highlyrespected foren- Park Police?" At which point, the federal archives. So, how sic pathologist and a medical the man drove off. Swan then come that an intrepid revision- examiner for the city of Cleve went to the pay phone in the ist in the Kennedy matter leaps land, pointed out the ab sur - parking lot and called 911, set- up to become a Clintonian dity of thinking that a person ting off the chain of events apologist on the Foster case, could shoot himself in the that brought the police and and does so without having mouth, firing it with lus thumb, paramedics to the site where Mendtoseiheautcpyqn: "and then change his grip and Foster was found. which has been sealed from move the weapon to his side.'' But several critical questions view? Could it possibly have Said Adelson, "Nature is hon- rush to the fore; (1) Who was anything to do with the fact est. Use common sense. I think this driver? (2) Why didn't he that most [though not all] that if a person shot himself in make the call himself? (3) It Kennedy Assassination Revi- the mouth with a .38, they are turns out that Foster's body sionists have been leftists, not going to be able to carry was not visible from the main whose conspiracy analyses out purposeful acts." trail that runs through Fort have focussed generally on the In addition to effectively Marcy Park. But this means CIA, and not on leftist forces? rebutting the Clinton-to-Wecht that the van driver would have WhereastheClintonAdministra- ploy, Christopher Ruddy has car- to have been out of his van and off the main trail to spot the Foster body. What was he doing in Fort Marcy Park? It should. come as no surprise that the U.S.Park Police have been unable to locate the driver. Clearly, the driver, if ever found, might be able to shed light on key questions, in addition to who he was and what was he doing in the park, such as: Did he see Foster alive? Did he hear the fatal shot? It would also be interest- ing to know if said driver has any political connections. Another mystery about the 911 call about Foster's body: George Gonzalez, the Fairfax County paramedic who was the first rescue worker to examine Foster's body, distinctly mem- that Foster had fired the gun van, driven by a heavy-set bers a 911 call about Foster with his thumb. which is appar- white man in his mid-40~~with made by an "unidentified

I 8 March1994 woman.” The Fairfax County Insiders’ Insider, Mr. Intelli- focussed on speculations on the 911 dispatch unit says that gence. When Bobby Ray retired supposedly odd psychological Swan’s call about the Foster from many years of public ser- state of mind of Admiral Inman. body was the only one on mrd, vice in Washington in the early How could Inman retreat just but it admitted that they ”only 1980s,and returned to Texas, because Bill Safire and a couple keep [a record of] the first call the reporters at Austin put on an of other columnists were criti- that comes in.” Unfortunately, affectionate show in his behalf, cizing him? How could he pos- all tapes of 911 calls for that singing, to the tune of “Jesus sibly conjure up a ”conspiracy” night were destroyed, as per Christ, Superstar,”: ”Bobby between %fire and Senator Dole usual practice, 30 days after Ray, Superstar/Are you the to attack him and besmirch his the night in question. messiah that they say you are?“ character? Inman talked about Surely, all the investigative Clearly, Washington greeted ”sources” but he couldn’t resources of the government his return on December 16 with prove his charges, could he? should concentrate on finding the fervent answer, Yes! Inman was denounced as re- the unidentified driver, as well Moreover, Inman had come markably ”thin-skinned,” his as the mysterious woman. highly recommended. The behavior in charging con- Fostergate grows curiouser main person pushing for his spiracy treated as ”weird” and and curiouser. When will the appointment within the “bizarre,” and the general veil over Fosters demise be Administration was Clinton’s reaction echoed that of Senator ripped off? First Friend in the Trilateralist Dole: that someone harboring Establishment, Rhodes Scholar ”fantasies” of this sort was not and Oxford roomie Strobe really equipped to be the captain Talbott, now Deputy Secretary at the helm of America’s de- Within a Month! of State, and Secretary of State- fenses. In the psychobabble in-waiting. Inman’s coronation beloved by the media, it was The Bringing seemed secure. noted (which Inman had never And yet, in just three weeks denied) that Inman was always Down of from that date, on January 6, reluctant about taking the job, Bobby Ray Inman Bobby Ray Inman, reeling and that therefore these fanta- from bitter attacks by New sies and this thin skin were really by M.N.R. York Times columnist Bill excuses for Inman’s not taking Safire, attacks seconded by a the position. On December 16, President couple of other media people, Amidst all the stress on Clinton named retired Admiral decided to withdraw from the Bobby Ray’s supposedly frag- Bobby Ray Inman to fill the fray. He waited a couple of ile psyche, it was overlooked post of secretary of Defense. To weeks to tell the President, that very little space was devoted say that the nominee was univer- until Clinton’s mother’s funeral to the content of the charges sally hailed would be a master- and his Russian trip were out of that Safire and the others were piece of understatement. To the way and thenInman went out levelling against Bobby Ray; pundits, media pple,politicians, in a blaze of fury, in a remark- and virtually no space to and leading ”well-informed able televised press conference Bobby Ray’s explanation of the sources” inside the Beltway, on January 18, less than a week hostility that Safire and the Bobby Ray Inman could walk before his Senate confirmation others had long harbored on water: He was the perfect hearings were slated to begin. against him, and which led to choice to bring order and pmtige The almost monolithic their anti-Inman campaign. to Clinton’s troubled and response by the media was the The media accounts all stress screwed-up foreign and military most instructive and revealing that no Senators were oppos- policies. Bobby Ray was bril- aspect of the Inman Affair. ing the Inman nomination; but liant, sober, knowledgeable, the Almost exclusively, the media the Senate staffers were pre-

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