-Caveat Lector-
Chattanooga Times / Chattanooga Free Press
October 31, 1999, Sunday
Privacy That Protects Murderers
By REED IRVINE
BODY:
Would a murder victim want his right to privacy invoked to
protect his killers from exposure? That's a question three judges
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
should have asked themselves before Oct. 26, when they ruled that
crime-scene photos that would help prove the cover-up of a murder
need not be released to Accuracy in Media, the media watchdog
organization I founded 30 years ago.
The court affirmed a lower court's decision that the U.S. Park
Service need not give AIM photographs taken of White House Deputy
Counsel Vincent Foster's body as it lay on the ground at Fort
Marcy Park on July 20, 1993. We and other interested private
citizens have been investigating Foster's death since 1994.
The more we learned of the facts, the more convinced we became
that the official investigators, from the U.S. Park Police to
Kenneth Starr and his team of FBI agents, were intent on proving
that Foster killed himself. All the private investigators have
been frustrated by the cloak of secrecy thrown over the Foster
case and by the disappearance of crucial crime-scene photos and
all the autopsy X-rays.
The first investigation was done by U.S. Park Police officers who
were so inexperienced that they were convinced that Foster killed
himself when they found a gun in his hand and saw no sign of a
struggle. It didn't matter that the gun was a .38 and they could
find no visible wounds caused by a bullet that large.
A photo of this gun that was leaked to ABC News shows the
importance of the crime-scene photographs in determining if the
findings of the official investigations are consistent with the
evidence. The Park Police claimed that Foster shot himself with
the old .38 revolver shown in this photo and that it had remained
in his hand because he had pulled the trigger with his right
thumb, which then got stuck between the trigger and the trigger
guard. The officer who removed the gun claimed that he had to
half-cock the hammer to slip the trigger guard past the thumb
joint. But the photograph shows only the tip of a thumb inside
the trigger guard, where there was nearly an inch of space to
accommodate it.
If the officer was lying, the explanation of why the gun remained
in Foster's hand collapses. If he was telling the truth, why
wasn't a photo to prove it released? If the leaked photo depicts
what it purports to show -- the right hand when the body was
first found by the police -- it is strong evidence that the gun
was planted in Foster's hand after he was dead. Since it was not
stuck on his thumb above the joint, it would have fallen from his
hand when it was fired.
The photo of the gun is also important because it is proof that
it was not owned by Vincent Foster. He owned a modern silver
revolver. The gun in the photo is black. The FBI tried and
finally succeeded in getting Mrs. Foster to say that it was the
gun she brought from Little Rock even though she had made it
clear that the gun she brought was silver, not black. Both the
Fiske and Starr reports leave the false impression that the black
gun was Foster's.
The most important deception exposed by a crime-scene photo is
the government's denial of a wound on Foster's neck. Paramedic
Richard Arthur said he saw a small-caliber bullet wound on the
right side of Foster's neck, under the jaw line, that would
explain the blood on Foster's collar and shoulder. Miquel
Rodriguez, the first prosecutor hired by Starr to investigate
this case, ordered a blow-up of an original Polaroid of the right
side of Foster's neck. Where Richard Arthur saw a bullet wound,
the blow-up shows "a dime-sized wound...marked by a black
stippled ring...suggestive of a .22 caliber gunshot fired at
point blank range."
The Fiske report says that the crime-scene and the autopsy photos
don't show such a wound. Dr. Brian Blackbourne, Starr's
pathologist, admitted that the autopsy photos show a mark on "the
side of the right upper neck just below the jaw line." He claimed
it was "small fragments of dried blood." A bullet-wound expert
says Blackbourne could not possibly tell that from a photograph.
It appears that none of these pathologists ever saw the Rodriguez
blow-up.
The government is fighting the release of the crime scene photos
because they expose its cover-up of evidence showing that Foster
did not commit suicide. Exposing obstruction of justice by the
government should outweigh any objections the Foster family may
have to their release.
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