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

by David Wayne

  RECAP:

  Those dramatic inconsistencies lead to some startling, but very logical conclusions. We know from the above facts that:

  •The gun photographed in Foster’s hand was not the murder weapon;

  •Foster did not die at the official crime scene but must have been transported there after he was shot;

  •A cover-up distorted the true facts;

  •Most in major media played right along with the scripted show, apparently either because they lacked the time to investigate, or because they were “in somebody’s pocket” from the start.

  And silly us, we still believed in a “free press” back then, right? Keep on reading, my friends.

  So we know that the gun in Foster’s hand was not the murder weapon, and that he was killed elsewhere and dumped at the official crime scene after he was already dead.

  There’s even more (not that more is even necessary in this case!):

  No one in the park saw him alive;

  The person who found the body, and had someone call it in to 9-1-1, was absolutely certain that there was no gun in either of Vince’s hands— he was curious, so he looked closely. Imagine yourself in his position. You’re not sure what’s going on—you approach suspiciously—your senses are heightened from the danger—you look closely and you remember it too, probably for the rest of your days. Well he looked, he inspected, he remembered—he swore repeatedly that there was no gun in either hand (the FBI pressured him to change his testimony and he resisted);

  That crucial first witness also stated with certainty that Vince’s palms were face up. The official version states that they were just the opposite and that one hand was under his leg;

  Another early witness who saw the body a bit later stated with certainty that there was a gun in Vince’s hand, but guess what? It was an automatic. The witness was a “gun guy” who knew his weapons too. He described it repeatedly as an automatic, which differs dramatically from the 1913 Colt .38 revolver that was found in his hand later. They pressured him to change his testimony too; he refused, reiterating that he knows what an automatic looks like, and an automatic is what he saw in the victim’s hand. (Then, everyone after these early witnesses, states that they saw the .38 revolver in his hand);478

  Foster’s wife could not identify the gun;

  Patrick Knowlton was another extremely credible witness. Guess what he saw? The cars that were in the parking lot at the time that the body was discovered. And guess what? Vince Foster’s Honda was not one of them—it arrived later!;

  Blood tracking on his face and shoulders indicated that his head had been moved in several different positions after the gun had been fired;

  Blood trails from Vince’s nose and mouth “defied gravity”— the tracks were hard forensic evidence that the blood had traveled upward on his face— but the body was laying on a steep slope, so blood should have traveled downward;

  Both of the EMTs on the scene (Emergency Medical Technicians who are trained in life support, and trauma identification, and treatment) stated that they definitely observed gunshot trauma in Foster’s neck; they observed no entry or exit wound in the head (one of the EMTs even reinforced this in testimony— when he was questioned about the exit wound, he countered “Was there one? I didn’t know there was one.” Here’s how he actually testified:

  EMS Technician Richard Arthur:

  Q: “Where was the blood coming from?”

  A: “To me it looked like there was a bullet hole right here.”

  Q: “In the neck?”

  A: “Yes, right around the jaw line.”

  Q: “The neck and jaw line underneath the right ear?”

  A: “Somewhere there. I would have to see a picture to point it out exactly where, but there was a little bit of blood coming out of the mouth too, and a little out of the nose, but the main was right here. I didn’t see any on the left side. I didn’t see any on the chest or anything.”479

  And again later, more testimony from the same EMT:

  Q: “With respect to the bullet wound you think you saw in the—at the scene could you describe in some detail exactly what you thought you saw?”

  A: “I saw what appeared to be a bullet hole, which was right around the jaw line on the right side of the neck.”

  Q: “About how big?”

  A: “It looked like a small-caliber entrance wound, something with—I don’t want to say a .22 or whatever, but it was a small caliber. It appeared to be a smaller caliber than the gun I saw.”

  Q: “How close to the body were you when you saw this?”

  A: “Two to three feet.”480

  There was also a doctor at the scene, a Dr. Haut, who also saw the neck wound (which varies dramatically from how the wound was later officially described, as entering the mouth and exiting the back of Vince’s head). Dr. Haut wrote in his report:

  “Gunshot wound mouth-neck”

  Dr. Haut’s sworn report (the form actually reads “I hereby certify and affirm under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia”) reads:

  “U.S. Park Police found a gunshot victim, mouth to neck.”481

  The paramedics from the local fire station were used to seeing dead bodies and knew what to expect from a death scene, be it a suicide or a murder. They assumed it was a murder because the body was lying perfectly straight and you don’t see that in a suicide. They said it looked staged, like somebody had laid the body out—one of them even originally wrote it up as “murder” in his report for that reason. Here’s how he testified:

  “He was just perfectly straight. It just seemed weird, how the gun got underneath the leg and he was off the beaten path over a hill. I mean, most people wouldn’t go back into shrubbery and sit down in all this shrubbery and everything around him, and shoot himself. I mean, maybe he would, but I don’t know. I didn’t know the man, so I’m just saying it just doesn’t seem like a normal suicide that I would have run into.”482

  The lead prosecutor quit because he said he wasn’t being allowed to actually investigate the crime!

  Critical crime scene photos are “missing”—officers know that they exist because they saw them being taken. But guess what?—nobody knows where they are, or at least that’s what they told everybody, including Prosecutor Miguel Rodriguez. But Rodriguez got a peek at some enhanced crime scene photos, and guess what he says?—that there was a neck wound, folks!

  Law enforcement officers were also pressured to stay in line with the official version. Here’s how one of them testified:

  “Lieutenant Bianchi told me from orders higher up, said that I’m not allowed to talk to anybody about this, if I value my job. I said ‘Well, what about the CIA, FBI and all that stuff?’ He said you are not allowed to talk to anybody if you value your job.”483

  That’s some very explosive evidence. It reveals that Foster didn’t die with the gun in his hand, and that he didn’t die in the location in the park where they said he did. But bear in mind that there is also forensic evidence which actually proves that Foster didn’t shoot himself with any gun, and that he was definitely murdered. That’s arguably the most important forensic finding. The powder burn patterns reveal that he was acting in a defensive manner, and that his hands could not have actually been on the weapon that killed him.

  The work of Washington D.C. attorney John Clarke has proven that Vince Foster literally could not have fired the gun:

  “The only possible way to have gunshot residue deposited on the right index finger and web area and left index finger, a sufficient distance from the barrel-cylinder gap to provide the five-inch length of the residue pattern, is if the weapon was fired by the hand of another. The gunshot residue patterns found were made when Mr. Foster held his hands with the palms facing the revolver’s cylinder, consistent with his hands being in a defensive posture.”484

  Clarke explains that in simpler language:

  “Foster couldn’t have fired the weapon with the gunshot residue the way it was left on his hands. The res
idue was caused by Foster holding his hands consistent with a defensive posture. His hands were spread open; he wasn’t touching the gun, though he seems to have been pushing the barrel away when the gunman pulled the trigger.”485

  Clarke also determined that the Remington Company, manufacturer of the bullets that were found in the gun that is the “official” vehicle of Foster’s death, has never used the ball smokeless powder that was found all over the victim:

  “Ball smokeless powder is what was found on Vince Foster’s body and clothing. We think that’s significant because it’s used for reloads. But professional hit men also use it to get particular firing characteristics out of a gun. That would be consistent with there being no exit wound. They’d put a light powder charge in the gun so that it wouldn’t blow the back of his head off as it would, had it been stock ammunition. That’s why I think it was a professional hit.”486

  Therefore:

  •Foster did not fire the crime scene gun into his mouth as officially alleged, nor any other gun, for that matter.

  •The gun that was photographed in his hand was placed there, at least one hour post-mortem.

  •Another gun was involved in the crime and it was not present at the official crime scene, which is also highly indicative of murder.

  •The victim acted in a defensive manner, resisting a gun that was being pointed at him, also highly indicative of murder.487

  Criminals don’t seem to understand a few things about crime scenes. If you move a body after death, then the evidence shows that. And that’s what it clearly shows in this case.

  Vince Foster’s killers made other mistakes too. For example, his body was placed in the park before his car was—and it’s pretty difficult to drive after a gunshot to the head. And whoever did drive Foster’s car to the park forgot to move the seat back to where Foster always kept it when he drove—the seat position was dramatically different, which would have made it ridiculously uncomfortable for the tall (just under 6’5”) Vince Foster to operate.488

  Foster’s car keys were not found at the crime scene—so how could he possibly have driven there?489

  There’s also this long-established factor known as gravity—blood doesn’t run uphill. Yet the dried blood stains on Foster had trickled down in the direction that was against gravity in the position they say he was found in.490

  So let’s see what we have here: Blood doesn’t run uphill, dead bodies don’t move themselves, and good parents don’t blow their brains out on their lunch hour.

  The Clinton White House was accused of intentionally weakening the FBI and using it as a political tool. The FBI’s Director, William Sessions, apparently refused to play along and was eventually fired as a result. He is the only FBI Director in history ever to be dismissed by a President.

  It seems that more was going on there than appearances indicate. The reasons given for investigating and firing William Sessions as FBI Director were very flimsy— “improprieties” such as that he had used an FBI airplane to visit his daughter; changing the security system at his home, for which the government may have been billed. Sessions denied that he had acted improperly. Nonetheless, he was told by the President to step down. He defied the President, refusing to resign his position. President Clinton then fired Sessions as Director, on the day before Vince Foster’s death. On Monday, July 19, 1993, President Clinton telephoned Director Sessions and ordered him to vacate his office immediately. So on the following day, Tuesday, when Vince Foster died, the FBI did not have a Director.

  Compare the investigation and removal from office of Director Sessions—stemming from very weak evidence—with the absence of a serious investigation into the extremely suspicious death of Vince Foster; the contrast is startling. Sessions was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing—there was obviously little there, to begin with—and the “ethics” charges pursued against him are widely perceived as having been politically motivated. Sessions later explained what he considers to be the real reason for his firing to a reporter, saying that “at the time I left the Bureau, (I stated) that I would not be part of politicizing the FBI from within or without.” That’ll apparently cost one their job in a place like Washington. It certainly cost Sessions his.491 He cited his refusal to buckle under to pressure from the White House, and the Justice Department, and their political interference with running the FBI—that was the actual reason that he was fired as Director. Any would-be investigation into the very mysterious death of Vince Foster was therefore the victim of Washington politics. As Sessions put it, “the decision about the investigative role of the FBI in the Foster death was therefore compromised from the beginning.”492

  Veteran Homicide Investigator Mark Fuhrman examined the evidence and concluded that the body was obviously moved, the crime scene was staged, and the reason the Park Police were given jurisdiction was because then the investigation could be controlled. “Someone tried to stage a crime scene that is not believable in the least, and to make it work they gave it to an investigative body like the Park Police who can be ordered around and bullied,” said Fuhrman.493

  Detective Fuhrman cited obvious signs of foul play: “There was no brain matter, no skull fragments, not anything behind his head or blood on the vegetation around it. It was a sunny day, the light was good, yet there was nothing noted, nothing photographed.” The conclusions from that evidence are obvious: “If he killed himself, he didn’t do it there,” stated Fuhrman. “If he committed suicide, then someone moved him to Fort Marcy Park.”494

  Or—someone may have moved him in Fort Marcy Park. Investigator Hugh Turley agrees with an observation shared by U.S. Attorney and Lead Prosecutor, Miguel Rodriguez: The evidence clearly indicates that Foster’s body was at first found—and even photographed—at a different location within Fort Marcy Park, and then, for some inexplicable reason, moved to the location in the park where it is officially stated that the body was found (and which ignores any pos-sibility that it was first found elsewhere). U.S. Attorney Rodriguez states that he saw the original crime scene photos, which confirm that the body was initially in a different location inside Fort Marcy.495

  But what is evident is that the scenario officially embraced by the Government’s version of events clearly did not happen—Foster did not die in the location or in the position in which we are officially told, despite attempts by Washington attorneys using their lawyerly ways to try to force square pegs into round holes. Saying it simply does not make it so. The body was either moved to the park or the body was moved at the park, and to posit that it wasn’t defies the preponderance of forensic evidence.

  Famed forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee became a national personality during the O.J. Simpson trial, but he made a name for himself in criminal investigations in the decades prior. Dr. Lee points out that an accurate “reconstruction of the circumstances of Mr. Foster’s death was not possible at the time of the OIC’s (Office of Independent Counsel) investigation.” He cited “the lack of complete documentation,” “the lack of x-rays of Mr. Foster’s body,” “the lack of close-up photographs,” and “the unknown location of the fatal bullet” as being obvious problems with doing a complete and proper reconstruction of the crime. The crime scene was corrupted long before the experts could get to it. Standard criminology procedures were blatantly violated. That never became a huge issue because, Dr. Lee continues, “In the Foster case, the death was not publicized enough to generate a firestorm ... “ Had the case been scrutinized in the media to anywhere near the extent the O.J. case was, the facts would have generated a firestorm from the massive irregularities and inconsistencies clearly identifiable in the factual evidence. Dr. Henry Lee makes particular note of the immediate and most obvious discrepancies in the evidence:

  “There were conflicting reports of where his body was found in the park, its position on a steep slope and whether or not his right hand clutched a .38 Colt handgun ... In consideration of powder burns found on both his hands, it was a feat that some believed could onl
y have been performed by a contortionist ... It was alleged that within 24 hours of the crime, Foster’s White House office had been stripped of documents, and U.S. Park Police investigators were prevented from entering the office or conducting routine interviews. Five days later, a torn suicide note was supposedly found in his office briefcase.”496

  It’s interesting to note that crime scene expert Dr. Henry Lee and Homicide Detective Mark Fuhrman were bitter enemies about the evidence interpretations in the O.J. Simpson murder trial and took dramatically different positions; yet they apparently share the same disdain for some of the striking disparities of evidence in the Vince Foster case.

  EVIDENTIARY OVERVIEW

  Primary Indications that Official Version of Vince Foster’s Death is Incorrect

  Official Version: On the afternoon of July 20, 1993, Vince Foster left his White House office shortly after lunch, without his briefcase, met with no one, drove to Fort Marcy Park in Virginia, walked to a desolate area of the park, placed a Colt .38 revolver directly inside his mouth and fired the weapon.

  1. Powder Burns Were Defensive

  The powder burn patterns found on both of Foster’s hands came from the front of a gun cylinder. If he had shot himself, then his hands would have had stains consistent with powder discharged from the rear of the cylinder. Heavy gunpowder deposits were found on the inside area of both his index fingers, meaning that they were both wrapped around the front of the gun. Forensic experts determined that such a grip is simply not consistent with a suicide and is, in fact, consistent with the actions of a person acting defensively. Ballistics experts conclude this is an indication of foul play.