Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

by David Wayne

13. There is no evidence that the gun found in his hand belonged to Foster. Nor is there any evidence that the gun fired the fatal shot.

  14. The gun reportedly found in Foster’s hand was not his own gun, but was a “drop gun” of the type that is used by professional killers because it is pieced together from various guns and is therefore impossible to trace.

  15. The gun in Foster’s hand was a .38, yet he was apparently shot with a .22, a smaller caliber wound which explains why it was not at first disclosed that there was no exit wound. The medical examiner viewing the damage at the scene stated that “it was consistent with a low-velocity weapon.” A higher caliber .38 creates an exit wound with a gaping hole because of its much higher velocity. The much more powerful explosion taking place from a .38 also produces a strong “blowback,” discharging blood and tissue out the mouth of the victim. Yet no blood or tissue was found on the gun.

  16. Although the official version is that the bullet exited the rear of Foster’s skull, the bullet was never located. Furthermore, autopsy doctor clearly states that there was no exit wound and there is substantial eyewitness testimony corroborating the absence of an exit wound.

  17. The supposed crime scene weapon contained two .38 cartridges, one of which had been expended and one which had not. They were high-velocity .38 rounds of ammunition, which is dramatically inconsistent with the evidence at the crime scene, which displayed the absence of a large pool of blood and the absence of a large exit wound on the victim.

  18. One of the first witnesses to arrive at the crime scene was a medical technician who emphatically describes the weapon as an automatic not as a revolver and his detailed description of it is highly consistent with that of an automatic.

  19. The gun in Foster’s hand is clearly shown in an ABC color photo and its color is black. Foster’s family members all concur that Vince Foster’s gun was silver in color. Yet when the FBI showed Foster’s widow the gun supposedly from the crime scene, the gun that they showed her was a silver one.

  20. When Foster’s widow went to look for her husband’s gun where it was normally stored, she found a different gun there that no one in the family recognized as being Vince Foster’s.

  21. The only ammunition found at Foster’s home was of .22 caliber, not .38. The FBI will not reveal the caliber of the silver handgun in their possession.

  22. Eyewitness testimony indicates that Foster’s car was not present at the park at the time that his body was first found. Two other cars were. Foster’s car was found in the parking lot AFTER the corpse had been found, and the two other cars were then gone.

  23. Foster was a very tall man, nearly 6’5”. Yet the driver’s seat of his car found at the park was pushed so far forward that it was in a position which was appropriate for a person about 5’8” tall. It would have been needlessly difficult for Foster to have driven his car with the seat that far forward. That fact implies that Foster’s car was driven to the park later by someone other than he.

  24. X-rays of Foster’s skull have either disappeared or were never taken in the first place. They do not officially exist. Original crime scene photos have also “disappeared” they do not officially exist.

  25. The death was immediately labeled a suicide, precluding a homicide investigation. Standard operating procedure in the case of a violent death is to assume, investigate, and exhaust all possibilities of homicide first.

  26. Foster was, by all accounts, a loving family man and very devoted father of three. On the morning of his death, he mailed a letter to his mother which stated nothing at all out of the ordinary. Nor did he make any mention to his wife or children, or leave any explanation of any type. His sister had just traveled 1,000 miles to visit him on the day of his death, and Foster was upbeat about it and had promised her an exciting tour including lunch at the White House. Therefore, it defies credulity that he was even remotely considering suicide.

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  Bullets don’t magically vanish;

  Blood doesn’t run uphill, or disappear;

  Dead bodies don’t move themselves;

  And good parents don’t blow their brains out

  on their lunch hour.

  “Hubbell said if you really want to understand Foster, to take a look at his recent speech at the University of Arkansas.”460

  “The class of 1971 had many distinguished members who also went on to achieve high public office. But it also had several who forfeited their license to practice law. Blinded by greed, some served time in prison.”

  “Sometimes doing the right thing will be very unpopular ... When the heat of controversy swarms around you, the conviction that you did the right thing will be the best salve and the best sleeping medicine ... The reputation you develop for intellectual and ethical integrity will be your great asset, or your worst enemy ... I cannot make this point to you too strongly. There is no victory— no advantage— no fee— no favor— which is worth even a blemish on your reputation for intellect and integrity.”461

  “Don’t believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn’t have been.”462

  When the personal attorney and lifelong friend of the President of the United States turns up dead on his lunch hour on a work day afternoon, you can say it’s a security breach of the highest level. In fact, you don’t even need to wonder if that’s a national security issue—it’s the very definition of one. That’s why, right from the start, and even before they officially acknowledged being aware of Foster’s death—the Clinton Administration controlled the would-be investigation by exerting considerable influence upon both the FBI and the U.S. Park Police, and ensuring that the death would quickly be officially labeled “suicide”—and if that was in direct violation of long-established protocol, then so be it. It’s what Presidents call stonewalling and they’re very good at it.

  Vincent Foster was quite obviously a man of extremely high integrity, as evidenced in the words of the above address which was personally written by him and given only days prior to Fosters death. His “conviction to do the right thing” may very well be what got him killed.

  The laws of our nation and of each state clearly proscribe that any violent death is to be treated as a potential homicide and investigated as such, even in cases that appear to be suicide (suicide is a legal determination made later). In the case of Vince Foster, less investigation was made than would have been mandated in any typically occurring violent death—the violent death of the highest ranking government official killed since President Kennedy was actually given less investigation than a common death.

  Vince was a long and trusted friend of President Bill Clinton—they went all the way back to boyhood, growing up as close friends in Arkansas. He became a partner in the same firm as Hilary Clinton and worked closely with the Clintons for decades. When Clinton was elected President, Vince went with him, becoming personal attorney to the President and First Lady with an office right in the White House, a trusted member of the innermost circle of power in Washington. So he certainly “knew where all the bodies were buried” as the old expression goes.

  Foster’s very suspicious death also occurred at a very auspicious moment. The Whitewater investigation was official, on the front page every single day and dramatically threatening the very Presidency with which Foster was charged to protect.

  Kindergarten class photo in Hope, Arkansas, 1950. Bill Clinton is at the far left. Vince Foster is the taller boy to Clinton’s left.

  The official version of the United States government, published in the 1994 Fiske Report, is that on July 20, 1993, White House Counsel Vince Foster, depressed about his work, drove to Fort Marcy Park in suburban Virginia after having lunch in his White House office on a Tuesday afternoon, parked his family’s Honda automobile in the park’s parking lot, walked 700 feet through the park to a very remote area, and then pressed a 1913 Colt .38 caliber revolver deep against the back of his mouth and pulled the trigger.

  However, a proper police investigation would have revealed
that story was not possible because a plethora of forensic evidence clearly indicates otherwise.

  Vince left the White House one afternoon after eating lunch in his office on what everyone described as a normal work day for him. Prior to leaving, he offered some candy to a co-worker and then told his secretary “I’ll be right back” on his way out. Everything was normal—a typical work day—he wasn’t suicidal. A few hours later—before you could say “Presidential privilege,” Foster was dead, his body discovered that afternoon in a park in Virginia. They said he stuck a .38 in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

  Courtesy of Reuters/ABC/Archive Photos

  The gun pictured in the crime scene photo above is obviously very dark. The gun that the FBI showed Foster’s wife and got her to identify as his, was silver. The gun in the photo is a .38 with high-velocity ammo. The forensic evidence is dramatically inconsistent with this weapon. Note the absence of blood on hand, shirt and gun. A .38 with a high-velocity load splatters “blowback” all over everything. The wounds are only consistent with a low-velocity weapon such as a .22 caliber. The gun above is pieced together with parts from different guns to make it impossible to trace; it’s the type used by professional killers—known as a “drop-gun” for hits.

  If a person places a .38 caliber revolver in their mouth and pulls the trigger, the blowback is incredible. It splatters blood and tissue all over, drenching the hand in it, as well as the wrist, the gun itself, the clothing nearest by, and obviously the wound in the mouth and nasal cavity which literally pour out huge amounts of blood from the residual blood pressure in the body and because the heart keeps pumping and sending more and more blood which escapes through the wound and the nasal cavity. The heart itself is fine. That’s why donor hearts for transplants often come from head-trauma deaths. The heart keeps pumping blood for up to two full minutes after a gunshot wound to the head. So you can imagine how much blood keeps pouring out of those gaping wounds.463

  But that didn’t happen to Vince Foster. His hand was clean; the gun was free of blood; the white cuff of his shirt was still white; witnesses stated that they saw almost no blood at all on the white dress shirt; there wasn’t oozing blood from his mouth and nasal wound; or a large pool of blood beneath him. It wasn’t until his body was moved to take it to the morgue that the blood poured out of his wounds and bloodied his white shirt—the way that forensics tells us that it should have been bloodied to begin with, right at the crime scene.

  And the incongruities go on and on. The gun that belonged to Vincent Foster was silver. The gun that was photographed underneath Foster’s hand at the crime scene was black.464

  It gets worse. There are, in point of fact, so many inconsistencies that it becomes difficult to prioritize them. And we’re not talking here about things such as differing witness opinions that can be argued about like “He said—She said”; these are straight forensic facts, folks. So let’s tackle a few, right here:

  DEFENSIVE POWDER BURNS:

  The powder burn patterns of a gunshot, known as GSR—for gunshot residue, paint a vivid picture about the violence that occurred. The powder burn patterns on Foster’s hands were on the inside of both index fingers, i.e., towards his thumbs. The long GSR burns indicate he had his hands in front of a gun barrel, in a defensive manner, and further indicate that his hands were not actually touching the gun when it was fired—because the length of the GSR burn is determined by the distance from the gun (details follow in this chapter).

  GUNPOWDER EVIDENCE:

  GSR staining from a different gun was found on Foster’s clothing and on his eyeglasses—not the gun found in the victim’s hand. That has a dramatic evidentiary indication—that the victim was exposed to gunfire from a gun that was not present at the official crime scene. The powder burns clearly indicate that Foster’s hands were not on the gun grip when the gun was fired. Simple translation: Foul play clearly involved. Furthermore, even though he supposedly stuck the gun inside his mouth and fired it, there was no gunpowder on his tongue. If a .38 is fired directly into the mouth, it leaves certain gunpowder markings.465

  FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE:

  Foster’s prints were nowhere on the gun, even though we would expect a person seriously contemplating suicide to be perspiring, which would facilitate the adherence of fingerprints to a gun; and it was a hot and humid July day, which would further facilitate it. That’s a clear forensic indication that the gun was placed in his hand in the hours after his death, at which time his fingerprints would no longer adhere to the gun. Someone else’s prints were on the gun (but we do not know whose).466

  BLOOD POOLING EVIDENCE:

  A .38 caliber at point-blank range with high—velocity ammo obviously leaves a lot of blood. However, the first doctor on the scene, as well as the EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians), were very surprised by the dramatically insufficient amount of blood and tissue evidence on or around the body. Based on substantial experience with gunshot wounds, for a wound of that type they would have expected to find a bloodbath, but did not.467

  BLOOD SPATTER EVIDENCE:

  A .38 (even without the high-velocity ammo that was in the crime scene gun) fired at point-blank range into a human skull always leaves a large amount of blowback, i.e., it splatters blood and tissue all over the victim, all over their clothing, and all over the gun. Yet when the crime scene photo is examined (of Foster with a dark gun in his hand), virtually no blood is visible on victim, victim’s clothing or gun. Even the cuff of his white dress shirt corresponding to the hand with which he supposedly fired, is in practically pristine condition. That is simply not possible.468

  ABCENSE OF BULLET:

  After a bullet traverses through a human skull, it loses its velocity and does not travel very much further. A huge team of FBI agents scoured every inch of the area where the body was supposedly found, figuring trajectories and bullet angles and using hi-tech gear to locate the bullet. They couldn’t find it.469

  ABCENSE OF CHIPPED TEETH:

  If a .38 is fired directly into the mouth, it breaks teeth. That’s especially true of the Army Colt. 38 Special, the type of gun found in Foster’s hand, because it is a very bulky weapon with a high sight. At the impact of a huge explosion and resulting recoil of a .38 inside one’s mouth, especially one firing a high- velocity round, teeth are broken and nearby tissue is practically destroyed. But the victim had no chipped teeth, insufficient tissue destruction and not even gunpowder on the tongue.470

  ABCENSE OF BONE FRAGMENTATION:

  Bone fragmentation is also what usually happens from the above-described explosion. But, you guessed it— not in Vince Foster.

  VICTIM’S CAR KEYS:

  If the victim drove to the park, as the official version purports, he obviously would have needed his car keys. Yet they were not there. The crime scene was thoroughly searched, as well as the victim and victim’s car. There were no car keys. They turned up later, very “mysteriously” at the morgue, in Foster’s pockets, which had already been checked.471

  VICTIM’S EYEGLASSES:

  Even though the Government maintains the position that the gun stayed in Foster’s hand because there was no dramatic recoil (and you can’t have it both ways), it also purports that the recoil of the gun was so dramatic that it knocked Foster’s eyeglasses off his head and drove them up a steep hill, over and down the other side of that hill at a distance of approximately 15 feet from the victim, where they were found deep inside heavy underbrush. That’s not to mention the facts that the ballistics indicate that the glasses should have been thrown in the opposite direction, and that the eyeglasses contained gunpowder from a gun other than the crime scene gun!472

  ABCENSE OF SOIL ON SHOES:

  The virtually complete absence of soil or dirt on the bottom of Foster’s shoes clearly reveals that he never took that 700-foot walk through the park trail that afternoon. Independent investigators test-walked the same path in the same type shoes and, quite unlike Foster’s shoes, picked up considerab
le dirt and soil on their shoes.473

  BALLISTICS MISMATCH:

  The gun in Foster’s hand was not the gun that killed him. The ballistics did not match.474

  “FOREIGN” WEAPON:

  No link was ever established between the victim and the weapon. It was not his gun.

  PROFESSIONAL WEAPON:

  The weapon was what is known as a “drop-gun”—a gun favored by professional killers because it is hard to trace. Drop-guns are pieced together from parts of different guns. They are so-named because the shooter drops it without fear because it is untraceable, or places it in a victim’s hand to stage a suicide.475

  EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS:

  Most of the eyewitness testimony dramatically contradicts the official version of events. For example, the first person to find Foster’s body, swore under oath repeatedly that he was absolutely certain that there was no gun in either of his hands, and that he was laying with his palms up, which is not at all how officials claim.476

  Solid eyewitnesses have repeatedly verified that Foster’s car was not in the parking lot at the time that the body was found. It arrived later. One police officer reportedly even felt the hood of Foster’s car after it arrived—long after Foster’s body was found— and noticed that the hood of the car was still warm. As Brett Kavanaugh conceded (he followed Miguel Rodriguez as Lead Prosecutor after Rodriguez resigned), all of the police, medical emergency personnel, and others—twenty-four witnesses in total—all identified the Honda in the park’s parking lot at the time of their arrival as being “brown”—not silver-gray, which was the color of Foster’s Honda.

  PROSECUTOR RODRIGUEZ:

  “Well, it all comes down to that brown car issue, right? All the police and medical personnel who were in the park also described it as brown.”477

  The witnesses were all consistent that the car was brown. Therefore, the car was not the Foster family’s grey Honda. But, through semantic gamesmanship, that car magically became Foster’s car in the official version of events, by misrepresentation of witness testimony, preposterously implying that they had somehow all gotten the color wrong.