Forrestal was a LOT more high profile than Foster at the time of his swannie at Bethesda. Hoffman was the last leader of the radical left and was just enjoying a resurgence after his years on the lam. Both killed themselves. We know Hoffman suffered mental illness and it's universally suspected that Forrestal did too, given his behavior.

Foster suffered clinical depression. He left it untreated throughout his life, for fear of the stigma, until his wife finally prevailed upon him to see a doctor. it was too late.

Mental illness strikes people in all walks of life. I had a cousin who committed suicide about twenty years ago. Rich, educated, good looking, proper breeding, elite lineage. None of that mattered. When it hits somebody with a high profile, high stress job like Secretary of Defens, or Deputy White House Counsel, it can be fatal.

Again, which is more likely: That Vince Foster, with uncontrolled Depression, blew his brains out in the park, or that the President aof the United States and the First Lady arrainged for hit men to put a gun in Fosters mouth at just the right angle, pull the trigger (all without doping the man) fire another shot from his cold dead hand in order to put get the residue on there, clean the gun, refire once to make it appear as if Foster took kis own life, stick the body in a trunk, drive across the river and dump it in the park (carefully arrainged so as to make it look like a suicide.) And then either pay off the hitmen with money they didn't have or have them killed in turn so as to ensure silence. Then convince their mortal enemy, Ken Starr, to cover the whole thing up and then lie about it.

For a guy who claims that he'll support a Centerist Democrat if Rudy doesn't get the nomination, you're sounding more and more like a John Birch Right Wing Scaife Flunky.

I don't assert for a minute that Bubba and the Dyke are innocent as babes. Every politician, of both parties has done something dirty in order to get where they are, and the higher they get, the more they've done. But what you're allegeing is fantasy, concocted by rich, paranoid fascists with the time and the money to spread such an idea and a list of willing ears to listen. Thats how stories like this gain currency. And that's exactly what happened here.

Ken Starr cover for the Clintons? What's next? Billy Graham becomes an Athiest?