There's No Statute of Limitations on Murder
Revisiting Vince Foster in an Era That's No Longer Scared of the Clintons
Vince Foster had the great misfortune to be born I the little town of Hope, Arkansas, which meant that he grew up near Bill Clinton. In fact, he grew up next door to Bill Clinton, who was living with his grandparents while his single mother was off to nursing school.
Bill Clinton was a little boy at the time, but he was painfully aware that his grandparents’ home was modest compared to the Foster house. By 1950, Bill Clinton’s mom had remarried, and the Clintons moved first to a more upscale part of Hope and then, in 1952, they moved to Hot Springs. However, young Billy Clinton, as he was known at the time, frequently visited his grandparents and so kept in touch with Vince Foster and others in Hope.
Vince Foster’s father, a prosperous realtor, was disappointed when young Vince opted to study law rather than jump into the real estate game. In 1971, Vince Foster graduated law school and got the highest score in his class on the Arkansas bar exam. In 1968, Vince married Elizabeth “Lisa” Braden, with whom he had three children.
Also at this time, the second of two major catastrophes befell Vince Foster. He joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock in 1971, making partner in 1974. It was here that he crossed paths with Hillary Clinton, the new bride of his old pal Billy Clinton. It was Vince Foster, the loyal old school chum, who recommended that Rose Law hire his friend’s new wife, making her their first-ever female associate. Another guy you may have heard of who worked at Rose Law was Webster Hubbell who bears a striking likeness to Chelsea Clinton. But that’s another story for another day.
Let’s just say in the 1970s, the Rose Law Firm was the workplace of a number of unusual people. Here’s the timeline:
In 1975, Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in Fayetteville, Arkansas. If you’ve never seen wedding photos, it’s because there aren’t any. The couple married in a very tiny home ceremony, which was Hillary’s idea, not Bill’s. Hillary refused an engagement ring
In 1975 Bill and Hillary honeymooned in Haiti and saw a voodoo ritual. You can’t make this stuff up
Bill Clinton runs and gets elected Attorney General of Arkansas in 1979. The Clintons move from Fayetteville to Little Rock
Vince Foster and Webster Hubbell help lobby to get Hillary named associate at Rose Law
Vince Foster and Hillary often worked on cases together
Bill Clinton gets elected as the youngest-ever governor of Arkansas in 1978 and, in fact, the youngest governor in the country at this time. He was just 32 years of age
Hillary has Chelsea in 1980, a child who regrettably resembles Webster Hubbell
Bill Clinton lost the next term as governor, and then regained the governor’s office in 1982 and managed to hang on to the office till 1992. He didn’t give up the office till he won the White House in 1992
Meanwhile, Vince Foster becomes known as a great trial lawyer—his reputation grows. Bill Clinton would later describe Foster as a “tall, handsome, wise, good man”
Foster won awards from the Arkansas Bar Association and Rose Law Firm grows five-fold while he was partner there.
When Bill Clinton won the Presidential election in 1992, he tapped his childhood pal and wife’s colleague Vince Foster to join his transition team. Bill Clinton later named Foster his Deputy White House Counsel. Word is that Foster had mixed feelings about this move, preferring the life and career of a successful Little Rock litigator. Foster allegedly liked the small-town vibe and felt uncomfortable in Washington, D.C.
The Clintons really looted the Rose Law Firm to nab Webster Hubbel (Associate Attorney General), Vince Foster, and William Kennedy III.
The dutiful Vince Foster moved to tony Georgetown, but he hated D.C. life and the political whirlwind. He left his wife and children in Arkansas so the kids could complete school there. Foster confided he sometimes felt unqualified for tasks he was given, such as vetting new White House appointees, drafting executive orders, or advising on the wording of international treaties.
Then Vince Foster did something really consequential. Bill and Hillary Clinton were not poor by any means when they arrived in Washington, D.C. Hillary had been a practicing attorney, Bill was a governor. But once in D.C. the Clintons and their friends, including Vince Foster, started to realize what big money really was. This was not measured in hundreds of thousands, it was measured in multiple millions. No one knows what Bill and Hillary talked about in terms of their financial future, but we can guess. The Clinton grift, culminating in the Clinton Global Initiative and other charity scams, had its roots in those early days. And they discussed this kind of thing with Vince Foster.
Blind Trust and Whitewater
Vince Foster was likely included or peripheral to these financial schemes, because soon he tackled a job that was much more suiuted to him. He started to work on setting up a blind trust for the Clintons.
A blind trust is a financial set-up that is usually made by politicians or other big shots to avoid conflicts of interest. All of the money or assets of a person or group (called the “trustor”) are put into a trust controlled entirely by a third party known as the “trustee.” The trustee’s job is to manage the money, typically by investing it, buying and selling assets, and monitoring all finances. During this time, the trustor has no control over how the money is handled and, in fact, the trustor has no knowledge of what is being done. This helps prevent conflicts of interest, such as when a president might be swayed to make a certain decision because it benefits him financially. A blind trust is perfectly legal and Vince helped the Clintons set it up. But we don’t know where his boundaries were—much less what the Clintons expected of him.
Was Vince Foster involved in setting up other financial plans, such as shell companies or offshore holdings? Again, these are not illegal unless you use them to launder money.
In the summer of 1993, Vince Foster found himself in the middle of Travelgate, a relatively minor scandal (for the Clintons, anyway) that he feared might force him to testify before Congress, something the integrity-minded Foster regarded as shameful. Travelgate sounds positively quaint to modern ears. The scandal was twofold: first, the White House travel office was allegedly taking kickbacks from the press corps when they booked their travel and, second, Bill and Hillary were going to fire the White House travel office people so that they could install their own people into these offices (and presumably keep the kickbacks in the Clinton orbit).
Then came the Whitewater scandal, for which some people (not the Clintons) went to prison; it involved real estate fraud. It is reasonable to think that Vince Foster was privvy to a lot of the Whitewater shenanigans and was maybe even involved. While Vince Foster was implicated in Whitewater, he never went to trial, in fact, he was never even called to testify. That’s because he was dead.
The Death
The official story is that on July 20, 1993, Vince Foster committed suicide by a single gunshot wound to the mouth. Foster’s death preceded the Whitewater trial by years, but it did not precede the Whitewater investigations. The New York Times first dug up the dirt in 1992. Whitewater was just getting started and it looked ugly.
Vince Foster was found dead in a public park in D.C. Bill Clinton delivered the eulogy at his funeral. Several investigations supported the suicide and even Vince Foster’s wife called out the conspiracy theories that wondered if something besides suicide had occurred.
There were some suspicious factors that the FBI addressed, but in an odd move, they and some other government-affiliated investigatory teams did not think they contradicted suicide.
Suspicious Minds
The most suspicious part of the Vince Foster case is a briefcase. White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum found Foster’s briefcase in the White House on the day of Foster’s death. Nussbaum opened it. It was empty.
But four days later, the briefcase, still in the White House, was checked again and this time, there was a suicide note. Well, sort of. Some called it a letter of resignation. It was a handwritten letter which no one signed, ripped into 28 pieces (one report said 27 pieces). It was weird and rambling, stated, “I made mistakes from ignorance, inexperience and overwork.” That sounds like an unusual tone for a suicide note.
Even more telling in this letter was a statement that read: “No one in the White House, to my knowledge, violated any law or standard of conduct.” That’s weird. How many suicide notes are written to exonerate other people?
It took two years and a few months (October 25, 1995) for a team of handwriting experts to examine this unsigned letter found in Foster’s briefcase (days after he had died). There were multiple experts who reviewed the letter independently, and every one declared it to be a forgery, that is, they said it did not come from the hand of Vince Foster. Four experts at the time said it was fake but one expert, Marcel Matley, who got to analyze the document afterward, said it was authentic based not on handwriting but “writing style.” That’s an unusual approach to handwriting analysis.
This is Weird
In 1993, William S. Sessions was the director of the FBI, appointed years earlier by President Reagan. On July 19, 1993, one day before Foster’s death, Bill Clinton fired Sessions due to “ethical lapses” and swore in Floyd Clarke (as interim director) and then Louis Freeh (September 1, 1993). Sessions is the first of only two FBI directors to get pink-slipped, which is perfectly legal since the President may fire them at any point. The other one who was fired was the most disreputable James Comey, who got the boot in 2017 from Donald Trump.
(Note that Bill Sessions is not related to Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General under Trump’s first term. And Jeff Sessions is not related to Irene Ryan or “Granny Clampett,” an actor to whom he bears a striking resemblance.)
Those who argued that Vince Foster might have completed suicide have some good reasons. Foster was living apart from his family (with whom he was very close), he hated Washington, D.C., and he was depressed. He had been suffering from insomnia and lost a lot of weight in his tenure in D.C. Although he behaved professionally, he was struggling with the things the Clinton White House was throwing at him. He took the scandals of the Clinton White House—Travelgate and later Whitewater—very personally. He felt they tarnished his image. He saw them as personal failures. He was afraid when he returned to Arkansas, he would not be the respected litigator he once was.
And who wouldn’t get depressed working so closely with Hillary Clinton? Rumor has it they were lovers. No wonder Foster was depressed.
The Questions
Five official agencies marched in and declared without equivocation that Vince Foster had killed himself in a public park by shooting himself. He allegedly put the gun in his mouth. A special prosecutor had been hired to look into Whitewater and this guy, Kenneth Starr, brought with him a bright young protegee named Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh did a lot of the heavy lifting on the Vince Foster invesgitation which was now dumped into the Whitewater investigation. (Yes, that Brett Kavanaugh; the Supreme Court justice. He took three years to finally say that Foster killed himself and now he’s a justice.)
So many carefully timed suicides have occurred in the Clinton world that the timing alone makes people wonder if Vince Foster’s death was premeditated by somebody other than Vince Foster. The Whitewater investigation was going full steam ahead and Vince Foster was not just in the thick of it as White House attorney, he was implicated to boot. He knew a lot and likely what he knew would hurt the Clintons. It seems a foregone conclusion that he’d be called to testify, maybe even be indicted.
Furthermore, he was going through a period of some mental anguish and turmoil, which might indicate he was struggling with feelings of guilt that would cause him shame. Or perhaps he was wrestling with his integrity: does he tell the truth about Whitewater and get Bill and Hillary in trouble? Or does he hide their crimes?
The suicide note—or resignation letter as some called it—is incongruent if one thinks that Vince Foster was going to stay in the battle and to save the Clintons. If he wanted to exonerate the Clintons (which the letter said he did), why would he suddenly commit suicide? If he truly wanted to stand up for the Clintons, he would have stayed alive long enough to testify and make things “right.” Instead, he wrote a mysterious note that said no one in the White House was guilty of anything and then killed himself. Seems an implausible approach.
Suicide has been disputed and here are some of the reasons things look a little hinky.
No X-rays were taken of the body and no bullet was ever found, so its trajectory is unknown
There was not enough blood at the scene particularly with respect to where body was found
The way the blood had pooled in the body suggests that Vince Foster died at a different location and was moved to the park
A person in the park at that time claimed he saw somebody carrying a man near where Foster was found
Foster was wearing shoes with no traces of grass or soil particles although Foster had to walk through grass and dirt to get to the place where he sat down on the grass and shot himself
There are five missing hours between the time Foster was known to leave the White House before his body was found at Fort Marcy Park
The “suicide note” or resignation letter was found after Foster’s death (it was not in his briefcase one day and then it suddenly appeared four days later) and has been judged to be forged
The suicide story was publicized largely by The Washington Post and often by one of its writers there named Michael Isikoff. You may remember Isikoff from such other Democrat hits, like the Steele Dossier
Foster’s car was not in the park parking lot at the time of death. It was there later when the investigators arrived. However, Foster did not have car keys on his person when the body was found
Foster did not own the gun in question; in fact, his fingerprints were not on it
There were two bullets in the gun and Foster did not own any ammo, with him or at home, that would have been suitable for this gun
The FBI could not trace the provenance of the gun
The gun was still in his hand; usually, a person who shoots himself in the head dies and releases the gun. The authorities claim this is because his finger got stuck and jammed so the gun was not released
Powder residue on Foster’s hand were inconsistent with a person using the gun in the way it is alleged he did
Carpet fibers were found all over Foster’s body and have never been explained
Long blond hairs were found in Foster’s underwear
There was never found any exit bullet and no imaging was taken of the body to show where the bullet lodged in his body
A bullet wound in the neck was observed by some but not mentioned in the autopsy. The official report is he shot himself by putting the gun in his mouth. There was no gunpowder residue in his mouth
No skull fragments or brain tissue was found at the scene, which is unlikely given the way he was shot
A test for gunpowder residue on Foster’s clothing was positive—except it did not match the gun
A crime scene technician saw an unknown person flee the scene
No one heard any gunshots although this was a busy urban park in the middle of the day
Four investigators (Arthur Nascarella, Gene Wheaton, Fred Santoshi, and Vince Scalise) all looked into the death and all independently reported that the scene of the death appeared staged and Foster most likely did not die in Fort Marcy Park. This is the same Vince Scalise who was later shot by a Bernie Bro while playing a Congressional softball game in the park. These four guys were all experienced homicide investigators and not political hacks or people the Clintons could easily crush.
While these items come from a variety of sources, major hat tip to a great book by Ralph Thomas called The Death of Vince Foster and the Clinton Scandals.
Perhaps the most compelling evidence is that all of the usual suspects (CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, official government agencies with Democrat ties, the FBI, The Washington Post, Reuters, Time and on and on) all have been and still are marching in lockstep on this matter. They all insist that Vince Foster killed himself and anybody who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist.
And in an eerie touch, Vince Foster’s widow has insisted that she wants the matter closed and further investigation would be harmful to her and the family. She insists Vince committed suicide. It reminds me of Mary Jo Kopechne, whose parents demanded no further investigations be made into her death. Or, more recently, Obama chef Tafari Campbell and Democrat party activist Seth Richard. They both died under mysterious circumstances and their families insist that no investigations be pursued.
I don’t know about you, but if a family member of mine died under sketchy circumstances, I would want an investigation. Unless I was too afraid to ask.
Thanks for all of the input! First, before we go further, I had one observation on Vince Foster. This is a very layered case, almost Shakespearean. On the one hand, it's a case of political intrigue. It's also a murder. But think of the relationships. Bill Clinton grew up with Vince Foster. As they both went out to conquer the world, both had success in different areas but their paths intersected. At times, Vince helped Bill (such as getting Hillary into the Rose Law Firm) and likely he helped with other matters (financial) as well. At times, Bill helped Vince, like bringing him into the White House. There was always scuttlebutt that Hillary and Vince were lovers, although I have no opinion on that matter (yet). So these are boyhood chums from smalltown America who hit the big time ... together...
And if I am looking at this correctly, the Clintons either directly or indirectly arrange for Foster's murder. Judging from what you're told us about Foster's mood and attitude around the time of his death, he wasn't expecting anything like this. He thought everything was fine--that's my impression. And then he's dead.
That kind of savage betrayal is almost breathtaking.
Do you see any indication that Foster was double-crossing the Clintons? It sure looks to me like Foster thought he was a Clinton loyalist.
An investigation into Foster’s death (and the death of Ron Brown) should be opened by the Trump DOJ because, as you’ve said, there’s no statute of limitation on murder and there is plenty to suggest both were murders that were, at a minimum, covered up by the Clintons and, at worst, instigated by the Clintons. Now it just so happens I can add a to your description of the suspicious circumstances surrounding Foster’s death and the aftermath.
1. Right after Foster’s death, dozens of people were interviewed, including Foster’s wife and other family members, close friends (like Web Hubble), staff at the White House, and even Bill Clinton. Every single one of them said Foster showed no signs of depression. Then a week after Foster’s death, thraee of those witnesses (VInce’s wife, Lisa, her sister, Sheila, and her sister’s husband) changed their stories 180 degrees. Where previously Lisa, for instance, told police there was no sign of depression and that Vince wasn’t taking an anti-depressant, she suddenly claimed the exact opposite. And this happened immediately after Lisa and Sheila met with Bill Clinton in the Whitehouse. Those three witnesses were used to prove that Foster was “clinically” depressed. The rest of the witnesses were completely forgotten, including Foster’s doctor who explicitly stated Foster was not “clinically” depressed. Neither Fiske or later Starr showed any interest in why these three witnesses suddenly changed their stories.
2) Regarding the briefcase and the so-called suicide note, Starr fail to mention in his report that there were witnesses (two paramedics and two motorists) who testified they saw a briefcase in Foster's car at Fort Marcy Park. A briefcase is certainly something that Starr should have been interested in … especially when Foster's briefcase showed up in his office at the Whitehouse later, supposedly containing the so-called suicide note. Curiously, the note was *discovered* almost simultaneous with the three key witnesses changing their story. Fiske and then later Starr said the note was proof Foster committed suicide but during the Starr investigation when three, nationally recognized handwriting experts came out to publicly challenge its authenticity, it suddenly disappeared from the official story. It was then discovered that the Park Police officer who had ruled it authentic did so based on less than reliable methods. In fact, he was later given portions of the note by Reed Irvine (of AIM), without knowing it, in a different form, and he himself judged it to be an obvious forgery. Starr not only stopped mentioning the note but showed no interest in how it managed to get into Foster’s briefcase. He showed no interest when it was proven that a number of Clinton staffers, who swore under oath that Hillary had no role in the handling of the note, had lied. A memo was discovered, written by White House lawyer Miriam Nemetz, who quoted then-White House chief of staff Mack McLarty saying Mrs. Clinton "was very upset and believed the matter [meaning the note] required further thought and the president should not yet be told.” And with three nationally recognized, board certified independent handwriting experts announcing it was forgery … not even a good forgery, you'd think that would be news. But the New York Times and the Washington Post, the two newspapers which gave the most coverage to the discovery of the "suicide" note, ignored that. So did mainstream TV and most radio news programs, mainstream news magazines, and virtually every mainstream newspaper in the US. They were controlled media even then. They continued to write stories about the Foster case as though the suicide note was legit.
3) Fiske’s investigation was so sloppy and corrupt that they were forced to convene a second investigation by Ken Starr. Starr’s investigation was so sloppy and corrupt that his own lead investigator on the case, Michael Rodriquez, quit, publicly calling the investigation a sham. His resignation letter said evidence was being overlooked in a rush to judgment. He wrote a 31 page memo to file detailing reasons why Starr’s investigation was phony. Starr just ignored it. The mainstream media ignored it. The mainstream media also ignored every effort Rodriguez made to be interviewed. One of the reasons Rodriguez gave was that he personally saw photos of wounds that did not match the official description. He said there was a wound in Foster’s neck that the official version totally ruled out. Those photos have never been publicly released and the government has resisted every effort to get them released. Trump should now see to it that they're released. There is no legitimate reason not to do so.
4) Related to the above, there was a FBI memo written to the Director of the FBI by agents at the scene two days after Foster’s death which stated the shot was fired into Foster's mouth WITHOUT leaving an exit wound. This is completely contrary to the official claim that there was a gaping 1” by 1-1/2” hole in the back of Foster’s head. Starr failed to tell the three judge panel monitoring his activities, as well as the public, about this memo. And not one of the DOZENS of eyewitnesses at Marcy Park or the morgue (including a doctor, the EMTs, and Park Police) corroborated the official claim. In fact, they either said they saw no exit wound at all or that they saw a wound in Foster’s neck. Only the doctor who did the “official” autopsy, Dr Beyer, reported this gaping hole. Starr reported this doctor’s findings and ignored the other 25 witnesses. That’s a bit suspicious, especially when Dr Beyer was caught outright lying about the X-ray machine being broken (which is the excuse given for why there were no x-rays taken of Foster’s head).
5) Rodriguez’s memo also noted that witness statements were not accurately represented in FBI reports. For example, there is clear evidence that either the FBI or Fiske tampered with Lisa Foster’s statement to the FBI the night of Foster’s death. Fiske and Starr claimed in their reports, based on a typed FBI form, that Lisa said her husband was "fighting depression". But the handwritten FBI notes from that night clearly show she told the investigators he was "fighting prescription", a reference to the sleeping pills dispensed for insomnia by Foster’s doctor. But “fighting depression" was all Fiske and Starr ever mentioned. Either the FBI lied to them or, more likely, they lied.
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