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Monday December 27, 8:15 PM
Panel Probed Suspected Clinton Visit to Dead Aide's Office
Congressional investigators never got a straight answer when they
asked whether President Clinton, along with top White House
aides, had entered Vince Foster's office on the night Foster
died.
Barbara Olson, former Chief Investigative Counsel for the House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee, told NewsMax.com on
Monday that a White House memo pointing to the secret Clinton
visit raised probers' eyebrows.
The memo, prepared in anticipation of Congressional hearings
into the Travelgate scandal by administration lawyers Jane
Sherburne and Miriam Nemetz, places Clinton in Foster's office on
July 20, 1993, sometime after the White House learned of the
lawyer's death:
"[Mark] Gearan had conversations with [Bernie] Nussbaum
preparing for the press briefing during which Nussbaum said he
had looked in Foster's office for a [suicide] note and had not
found one. After the President had come back from Foster's
office, Gearan spoke with [David] Gergen; Gergen was calling from
the Residence." (Draft Memo: Sherburne & Nemetz, May 15, 1996 -
Investigation of the White House Travel Office Firings and
Related Matters, page 663)
Foster, who served as the Clintons' Deputy White House Counsel,
was found shot to death in a Virginia park just hours before the
events described in that passage, according to the chronology
offered by the two White House lawyers.
Nussbaum, who was Foster's boss, along with senior White House
aides Patsy Thomasson and Maggie Williams, spent at least an hour
combing through Foster's office in search, they claimed, of a
suicide note.
Had there been corroboration that the president himself was a
part of the search party, it would have added a dramatic new
wrinkle to what many still suspect was an effort to sanitize the
room of damaging evidence.
But Olson, who spoke to NewsMax.com during a WABC radio
interview with Landmark Legal Foundation's Mark Levin, said that
the Travelgate Committee was never able to clear up the mystery.
"We asked Jane Sherburne about [her memo placing Clinton in
Foster's office] but never got an answer that led to anything
concrete," Olson said.
The former investigative counsel complained about the White
House's failure to seal Foster's office immediately after his
death, saying there had been so many visitors, "it was like Grand
Central Station."
President Clinton has maintained that he did not learn about his
lawyer's death until after an appearance on "Larry King Live,"
which was broadcast from the White House the night Foster died.
But at least one other account suggests that Clinton played a
role in the Foster office search.
"A makeup artist for CNN's 'Larry King Live' program has told
federal investigators that she overheard a conversation
indicating that Clinton was aware of Foster's death before he
appeared on the King show live from the White House library,"
reported Christopher Ruddy for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in
1996. (Ruddy is now NewsMax.com's Executive Editor.)
The makeup artist, later identified as Rose Precopio, said that
an unidentified male aide approached Clinton while she was
preparing him for TV and said that a note had been found in
Foster's office. Precopio claimed that then-chief of staff Mack
McLarty witnessed the exchange.
Olson hinted that her committee investigated Precopio's account
linking Clinton to a possible Foster office cover-up,
acknowledging to NewsMax.com, "Yes, I know Rose very well."
News that congressional probers suspected Clinton may have
secretly entered Foster's office on the night he died comes just
two weeks after Fox News Channel reported that two investigators
for the Office of Independent Counsel now doubt the official
verdict that Foster killed himself.
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