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August 12, 1999
Who is Vince Foster?
Memo To: Robert Bartley, WSJ editor
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Same Old Question
The new book, Bill and Hillary: The Marriage, opens up that old
question you posed in a lead editorial back in 1993 -- "Who is
Vince Foster?" -- not long before his lifeless body was found in
Fort Marcy Park, several miles from his desk at the White House.
I always could appreciate the anger you felt when the
spin-doctors at the White House came up with the story that
Foster committed suicide in a depression brought on by the
editorial. As you will recall, we had several conversations at
that time in which I passed on comments to you that I had
received from a friend with ties to the FBI about foul play and
the possibility Foster was murdered. I still believe that no
matter how he died, it did not happen at Fort Marcy. Whether he
committed suicide and was taken there or bumped off and taken
there, I dont know. But it was one or the other. The books
revelations about a long-time love affair between Vince and
Hillary is of course no surprise, as rumors were rampant back in
1993, and, in light of what we have since learned about the
marriage, perfectly credible. The book, though, has stirred the
pot again, which may reopen the potential for inquiries that will
lead in new directions. Here is one comment from a friend that
sounds right:
Vince's firing of FBI Director Webster at Hillary's insistence on
or about July 16 was without doubt the "trigger" for Vince's
untimely demise -- which I suppose was suicide. But not at Fort
Marcy. He lived in Georgetown with his sister, had only been in
the DC area for 6 months and could not have even known that park
was there. People who travel the GW parkway every day don't know
it's there. It has a T-bone entrance, there are no off-ramps or
on-ramps. I suppose Vince committed suicide in the WH parking
lot, just as the Arkansas State troopers at the Governor's Manse
-- where Hillary was when they found her to tell her about Vince
-- were originally informed. And the National Park Service -- the
custodians of the White House -- moved his vehicle and body to
the nearest place under their control where it wouldn't be found
for quite a spell. The nearest such place under their control to
the White House was Fort Marcy. It is an absolute miracle that
his body was found so soon, being laid out way to hell at the
back of the Park, off any foot path and on the slope down to the
Potomac. Ordinarily the Park would have only been searched after
a car had been found parked there overnight and it was found to
have been his. If they had just found any old car there, they
would have just put a ticket on it. And after a few weeks worth
of tickets they might have checked.
The friend is just a fellow who lives near Fort Marcy and knows
it well, and immediately was suspicious about the accounts of the
suicide. Hes read everything reported about the event, mulled it
over many times, and has a working theory that Foster did commit
suicide, for a reason that makes better sense than any other Ive
heard: "The scenario is that Vince committed suicide because of
the confrontation with FBI Director Webster with respect to his
direct responsibility for the Waco Massacre. In the early months
of the Clinton Administration, we now know that Hillary was
Co-President and had 4-5 Cabinet Departments under her. One was
Justice and she ran it through Vince in the White House and Webb
Hubbell at the Department of Justice. She tried to run the FBI
through Kennedy but Webster wouldn't take orders. At that point
Reno still didn't know where the Ladies Room was. Acting on info
supplied by FBI that the Davidian children were being abused,
Hillary told Vince to fix it! Rescue those children! So
Vince-Webb-Webster did and the kids were incinerated. This could
have bothered Vince more than somewhat and he blamed himself.
Hillary blamed Webster for Waco and the travel office firing
debacle and insisted he be replaced with one of their people.
Webster refused to go quietly and Vince had to personally fire
him in a contentious meeting at Justice. Webster may even have
threatened to spill the beans on Hillary-Vince. Webster fell and
broke his elbow on the curb at Justice when exiting the meeting.
Two or three days later Vince committed suicide."
What do you think? It sounds plausible, especially when you throw
in all the other stuff Vince may have known was coming down the
pike... In case you missed it, here is the latest from the London
Daily Telegraph.
7 August 1999
Hillary's Lover, the FBI and the Vital Questions
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Hillary Clinton was warned. If she used her position as First
Lady to launch a candidacy for the US Senate, she would forfeit
her privileges and immunity. Suppressed stories would come to
light.
