Ruddy,C. The Strange Death of Vincent Foster. 1997
Ruddy, Christopher. The Strange Death of Vincent Foster: An Investigation.
New York: The Free Press, 1997. 316 pages.
Top White House official Vincent Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy
Park in July, 1993. The official story is that he had been depressed and
shot himself. So far there is no evidence that he was murdered. But there
is convincing evidence that the body was moved, and may have even been
delivered to the park. And there is reason to doubt that it was a suicide.
The investigation by the Park Police was so botched, that we may never
know what happened. The White House staff was informed of the death earlier
than they claimed, and quickly cleaned out Foster's office while covering
their tracks. The FBI director had just been fired by Clinton, and the new
person in charge failed to assert jurisdiction in the case, leaving it in
the hands of the humble Park Police. The suicide note appeared a week later
in a briefcase that had already been searched, and was eventually pronounced
a forgery by handwriting experts. Robert Fiske's staff began leaking the
conclusions of his inquiry before any real investigation had taken place,
and then an investigator on Kenneth Starr's staff who tried to do a thorough
job ended up resigning under pressure. Inconvenient eyewitnesses have been
harassed. Here's the question: at what point does the level of purported
bungling and incompetence become so unbelievable, that conspiracy is more
believable? And why have almost all reporters failed to pursue this?
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