-Caveat Lector- http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/8/30/101837 August 30, 11:19 AM Waco Linked to Foster's Death: Widow The Clinton administration's lethal 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian church weighed heavily on the mind of Vincent Foster in the weeks before his death -- almost exactly three months after the Waco bloodbath. The military style attack, which incinerated 55 adults and 25 children, was one of the worst law enforcement debacles in U.S. history. According to Foster's widow Lisa, the events of April 19 caused the late Deputy White House Counsel "a great deal of stress" and left Foster "horrified." After the Branch Davidian compound burned, Foster told his wife that he felt "everything was his fault." Lisa Foster revealed her husband's deep anguish over Waco to FBI investigators in 1994 as they probed possible reasons for Foster's alleged depression. In May 1995 The Washington Times obtained a copy of her FBI interview, reporting the bombshell under the headline: "Foster Felt Waco Debacle was 'his fault'". The longtime Clinton friend's distress about Waco and his own role in planning the ill-fated raid had not been previously disclosed. But according to a then-newly released Justice Department report on Waco, the White House was briefed on the FBI's decision to end the standoff with tanks and tear-gas six days before the April 19 conflagration. The FBI met with top Clinton aides Bernard Nussbaum, Webster Hubbell, Bruce Lindsey and Foster for 45 minutes that day. None of Clinton's people present at the meeting voiced objections to the planned escalation, said the Times. The participants made no mention of allegations that Branch Davidian leader David Koresh had been abusing children in the compound -- the reason Attorney General Janet Reno offered later to justify the attack. Foster's death was ruled a suicide by government probers based in part on a suicide note the White House produced six days after his death. In that note one line reads: "FBI lied in their report to the AG (attorney general)." In 1995 some Senate probers, while preparing to examine Foster's death at upcoming hearings into Whitewater, believed that Foster may have been referring to alleged FBI lies about Waco, reported the Times. Last week the FBI admitted that the bureau's denials that pyrotechnic tear-gas grenades were used at Waco had been false. New reports suggest that several documents relating to Waco may have been removed from Foster's office on the night he died. The First Lady's then-chief of staff Maggie Williams has admitted to removing unidentified papers two days later and storing them in Mrs. Clinton's White House closet. New speculation that Foster may have been carrying out the first lady's wishes on Waco is bolstered by recent press reports that the two were involved in a long-term love affair. Mrs. Clinton often relied on Foster to implement her orders, such as seeing that the White House Travel Office was purged so that she could "get our people in those slots." An entry in Foster's diary, believed to relate to Travelgate, reads, "Protect HRC (Mrs. Clinton) no matter what her role was or might have been." Mrs. Clinton recruited Foster for a key position in the White House counsel's office while installing Hubbell in the number three slot at the Justice Department. All three had worked together for years at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/8/30/101837 Bard DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
