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Clinton Body Count - Conservapedia 8/10/2019 Clinton body count - Conservapedia Clinton body count From Conservapedia The Clinton body count[1][2] originated with the 1987 Ives/Henry double homicide case and the subsequent violent deaths of seven witnesses or suspects in the investigation. Drug smuggling continued at the Mena Airport after the CIA terminated the Contra supply operation and left Arkansas. All nine of these murders in the vicinity of Mena remain unsolved, and three were originally ruled "suicides" by the state's chief medical examiner. Law enforcement and prosecutors also participated in the coverup, some receiving pay raises and promotions in the Clinton Arkansas political machine. The BCCI, Inslaw, and a small Little Rock bank data processing company known as Systematics also figure prominently in a string of unusual deaths. Once in the White House, many premature deaths related to "accidents" (most likely the result of sabotage) and "suicides" (staged by hired thugs) coincide with investigations into illegal fundraising. Since leaving the White House, several witnesses in corruption probes have been "suicided" or met bizarre "accidents" only days before giving sworn testimony. Other mysterious deaths are related to the Clinton Foundation and fundraising. Bill and Hillary Clinton Much of the early work on the subject was done by journalist Danny Casolaro writing The Octopus, and Victor Thorn author of The Clinton Murder Volume, both who met suspicious and untimely deaths. Future researchers will build upon their work, with the caveat of associated risks. The Clinton body count spawned the neologism Arkancide, defined as neither traditional suicide nor homicide, but "suicide" by two bullets to the back of the head. This updated Clinton body count is an attempt to list subjects by occupation and area of inquiry. It is not necessarily chronological or alphabetical. Contents 1 Government officials 1.1 Systematics 1.2 Commerce Department 1.3 Healthcare Task Force 2 Investigators and reporters 2.1 Inslaw and Systematics 2.2 Vince Foster case 2.3 Waco massacre 2.4 Whitewater 2.5 Clinton Murder Volume 2.6 Others 3 Inslaw Inc and Systematics 4 Arkla and Alltel cases 5 Mena airport 6 Witnesses 6.1 Ives/Henry case 6.2 others in the Ives/Henry case 6.3 "Bimbo eruptions" 6.4 Whitewater 6.5 Commerce Department 6.6 Other cases 7 Attorneys 8 Fundraising 9 Security personnel and others 9.1 First Waco siege (ATF) 9.2 Weisbaden crash 9.3 Navy aviators 9.4 Quantico crash 9.5 Marine One presidential helicopter 9.6 Air Force Two 9.7 Avhaz, Iran 9.8 Hillary's handler 10 Political cases 11 Survivors 12 References Government officials Systematics Systematics was a banking data processing company represented by Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, and Webb Hubbell. Vince Foster – July 20, 1993. Former White House Counsel and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a "suicide".[3][4] Foster was the highest ranking Executive Branch official since John F. Kennedy to meet an untimely death while still in office. Under laws passed after the JFK assassination, the FBI should have led the investigation, but it was relegated to the US Park Service in the Department of the Interior. The FBI was without leadership at the time, Clinton having fired the FBI Director less than 24 hours before Foster's body was discovered. Vince Foster was an attorney with a professional reputation for integrity, and in the early 1980s started cooperating with Israeli intelligence. But Foster began playing a dangerous game in the mid 1980s when he became the link between Systematics and the NSA,[5] the main US government agency that was looking for fronts to https://www.conservapedia.com/Clinton_body_count 1/12 8/10/2019 Clinton body count - Conservapedia market the stolen Inslaw software. Foster had a Swiss bank account and was making one-day trips to Switzerland every six to eight months.[6] Foster was the bagman for the Arkansas political machine. Less than five months into the Clinton administration first term, on July 1, 1993, Foster purchased a round-trip ticket to Switzerland. This prompted surveillance by CIA counterintelligence, NSA, FBI, and a four-person IRS team, putting a tremendous amount of psychological pressure on him. Foster became alarmed that he was under investigation when he phoned ahead of time and discovered the Swiss bank account had been drained of the $2.73 million deposited there. The account had been drained by ex-CIA hackers who placed the funds in an escrow account for the CIA.[7][8] Foster hired James Hamilton, a high-powered Washington lawyer specializing in white-collar crime who handles cases before Congressional committees. A weekend meeting was held with Webster Hubbell and both their wives at the estate of Michael Cardoza who later headed the Clinton Legal Defense fund. George Stephanopoulos is also said to be at this meeting.[9] $286,000 was deposited into the account of Vince's wife, Lisa Foster, shortly before the meeting. The money was paid evidently as hush money, and for legal fees. The hope apparently was that Foster would not break under stress and name names of others in the Clinton administration.[10] Six months after his body was discovered Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno appointed Robert B. Fiske as an 'independent' counsel to investigate Foster's death.[11] Fiske had represented Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal a few years earlier,[12][13][14] BCCI, the world's 7th largest bank, was investigated in several countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the money laundering services it provided to international drug lords and arms trafficers.[15] Stephens Inc of Arkansas, together with the Lippo Group of Indonesia, owned the American branch of BCCI.[16] As early as 1978 Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, and Webster Hubbell handled Stephen's interests in these matters and helped BCCI gain entry into the United States.[17] According to a 1991 article in Time magazine, the National Security Council had accounts at BCCI, which were used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers of money and weapons for Iran-Contra.[18] When Fiske's conflict of interest as independent counsel eventually became more widely known - investigating the entities and interests he once defended[19] - he was forced out and replaced with Kenneth Starr.[20] The first investigation was a joint FBI and US Park Police investigation. The second under Robert Fiske was an FBI investigation. Starr used the FBI and most of the same investigators Fiske used. Congress, having no field investigators and limited jurisdiction, could only probe whether or not there was improper conduct by the White House during the course of the first US Park Police/FBI investigation. William Colby - April 27, 1996. Director of Central Intelligence (ret). William Colby had been the DCI from 1973 to 1976 under Nixon and Ford. At age 76, Colby was writing for Strategic Investment at the time of his death. This worried many insiders in the intelligence community who felt Colby had already divulged too many of the CIA's secrets in the preceding years. Indeed, he was dismissed by Ford because of his over-cooperation with Congressional investigations into CIA wrongdoing. It was Colby who had revealed to Congress the plans to kill Fidel Castro, the spying on American citizens (in direct violation of the CIA charter) and the conducting of biological tests on unsuspecting citizens.[21] George H.W. Bush was his replacement. In the fall of 1983, Chip Tatum, who worked for Oliver North's "Enterprise", delivered to Dan Lasater, Raymond "Buddy" Young, and Gov. Bill Clinton in person, a cooler filled with cocaine and cash at Little Rock Airport. Tatum dutifully reported the details of what transpired by phone to William Colby, who recruited Tatum into Col. North's organization, when he reached his final destination at Ft. Campbell in Kentucky. According to the original CNN report, Colby was reported missing by neighbors who "recovered" his canoe, by one story from under the dock at Colby's house, by another report, 1/4 of a mile downstream from Colby's home. Colby was by all report a methodical, tidy man, yet police found his home unlocked, his computer on, and a partly eaten dinner on the table. The official story is that Colby just put down his fork and decided to drop everything and go canoeing. The newsletter he was working for, Strategic Investment, was covering the Vince Foster "suicide" in detail. Its editors hired three renowned handwriting experts to investigate Foster's "suicide note", which hadn't been found when his briefcase was first searched, but later materialized, torn into pieces, with no fingerprints on any of the pieces. Upon comparing this document with others of Foster's writings, these experts declared the note was a forgery, and a not very good one at that. Strategic Investments recieved a threatening letter from Charles O. Morgan, attorney for the widow of the late Vince Foster. Strategic Investments had written in its March 22, 1995, issue: Several years ago, investigative reporter Danny Cassalario [sic] spent many months investigating the Inslaw case. He told associates that his probe had revealed an astonishing tale of corruption that he intended to reveal in a story entitled The Octopus. He was days away from completing his story when he was found dead, allegedly a 'suicide.' Morgan wrote in his March 28, 1995 letter to Strategic Investments ' publisher, Systematics was not in any way involved in any investigation by Danny Cassalario [sic]". What's odd about this is, Casalaro's files and manuscript went missing at the time of Casalaro's death in 1991, and how could Charles O.
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