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i just don't buy that small time Arkansas lawyer works his way into a job like deputy white house counsel and decides to off himself.



Hmmm. Next I suppose you're going to tell me that James Forrestal was thrown from the window at Bethesda to protect the secrets of Area 51, that Abbie Hoffman was forcefed phenobarbital by GHW Bush and the CIA in revenge for the "October Surprise" article in Playboy (or maybe by Pete Townshend in revenge for the Woodstock incident) Senator LaFollette was killed by Joe McCarthy, Demosthenes was killed by Antipater, Judas Iscariot was killed by the remaining diciples and Saul was killed by David.

Really. The fact is that suicide occurs at all strata of society and for many reasons. Anthony and Cleopatra wished to avoid capture by Octavian. Robert Maxwell saw his empire crumbling around him. Budd Dwyer shot himself on live TV after his bribery conviction. And then there's plain old Mental Illness.

Forrestal had been hospitalized for two months after being found wandering, dazed and yelling that "The Russians are Comming." (That's where the movie title comes from.) Conspiracy theorists put forth all kinds of theories, blaming everyone from the "Majestic 12" in the know about UFO's to Menacham Begin's Irgun Gang. (Nazi Joe made reference to this twice.)

Despite all the crackpot theories I heard at NYU at the time, the fact is that Abbie Hoffman was Bi-Polar and had just changed treatments, which I'm sure the Fatman will tell you can produce some bizzarre results. The CIA had no more to do with Abbie than Begin did with Forrestal.

And Foster? He was diagnosed with clinical depression. Like many people, particularly the prominent, he had ignored it for years but, at the insistence of his wife, had finally sought treatment. He'd been prescribed Trazadone the day before his death; probably too late to do any good.

He was found dead with the gun in his hand and residue on said hand. There was a suicide note which stated, inter alia: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport."

Full Text:
I MADE MISTAKES FROM IGNORANCE,
INEXPERIENCE AND OVERWORK
I DID NOT KNOWINGLY VIOLATE ANY
LAW OR STANDARD OF CONDUCT
No one in the White House, to
my knowledge, violated any law
or standard of conduct, including
any action in the travel office.
There was no intent to benefit
any individual or specific group
The FBI lied in their report to
the AG [Attorney General Janet Reno]
The press is covering up the
illegal benefits they received
from the travel staff
The GOP has lied and
misrepresented its knowledge
and role and covered up a prior
investigation
The Ushers Office plotted to
have excessive costs incurred,
taking advantage of Kaki and
HRC [Little Rock interior
designer Kaki Hockersmith and
Hillary Rodham Clinton]
The public will never believe
the innocence of the Clintons
and their loyal staff
The WSJ [Wall Street Journal]
editors lie without consequence
I WAS NOT MEANT FOR THE JOB OR
THE SPOTLIGHT OF PUBLIC LIFE IN
WASHINGTON. HERE RUINING PEOPLE
IS CONSIDERED SPORT.

No fingerprints, not Fosters, not Hillary's nor anybody else's were found on the note.

Two Independent Counsels (Robert B. Fiske and Kenneth Starr) investigated the matter.) The Starr Report Full Text Here concluded definitively that Foster Committed Suicide. As CNN Reported on February 28, 1997 "The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup... despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and first lady tried to cover it up."

Those groups, and the murmerings that continue to this day, have been and continue to be funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, with some help from the late Jerry Falwell. It's akin siultaneously to those groups who blame America for every evil in the world and those who think there's a Jewish cabal behind everything. Paranoia know no political affiliation.

I should think thagt the OIC report would settle the matter once and for all. After all, as Snopses.com put it: "If Foster had been murdered or if unanswered questions about his death remained, Starr would have been the last person to want to conclude the investigation prematurely." After all, Starr was so desperate to nail Clinton on anything that he resorted to the stains on a fat girl's dress. If there was anything there, no matter how tenuous, don't you think Ken Starr would have ran with it?

By the way, Kenneth Starr has been, since April 2004, the Dean od Pepperdine School of Law, which is endowed by none other than Richard Mellon Scaife. He was originally supposed to take that job in 1996, but stayed around the OIC to pursue the Lewinsky matter. I suppose it took Ken all those years to persuade Dick there was no evidence. I guess it will take as long with you, too.

Bottom Line, Moxie: Vince Foster committed suicide. So did James Forrestal. So did Abbie Hoffman. There is no conspiracy.


And Courtney Love did not kill Kurt Cobain, either.