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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 76
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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JEAN LEWIS DARES TO SPEAK
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Senator Pryor (D-Arkansas), speaking on C-Span's Washington
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Journal on August 9, 1995, asks, in response to a caller
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inquiring about the late Vince Foster's stop-on-a-dime trips to
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Switzerland, that people not believe the "hate mongerers" out
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there. So, to ask questions, to have doubts about the official
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story on Foster's death, is perilously close to becoming "hate
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speech". And as anyone who has attended a major university lately
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knows, "hate speech" is *verboten*.
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Senator Pryor says that Foster's clandestine and mysterious trips
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to Switzerland "didn't happen". In this, he is contradicted by
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph, James Norman, a
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senior editor at *Forbes* magazine, and others. So who are we to
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believe, a politician or some reporters? Tough call.
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Senator Pryor asks that people not believe the "conspiracy
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theories" about the strange death of Foster. "Oh, please," he
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says, "For the sake of Foster's poor family, let the man rest in
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peace."
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I have two problems with those noble defenders of the still bereaved
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Foster family who demand that anyone having questions should stop
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asking them. Number one, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. was a public
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figure. As such, he is not just the private property of the
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easily upset next-of-kin, but "belongs" to us all; we all have
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"standing" in the matter of his death and have a perfect right to
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keep asking questions -- even tough questions. Number two, I find
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it suspicious that the Foster family does *not* want these
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persistent questions looked into. Questions surrounding Foster's
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death have not arisen in a vacuum nor are they without merit. So
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why wouldn't the Foster family want them answered?
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Why wouldn't the Foster family want them answered? It might be,
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as Norman and others are claiming, that Vincent W. Foster, Jr.
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was a spy who sold out his country for a few million dollars.
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*That* would be a good explanation as to why the Foster family is
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"satisfied" with the official investigation and begs that we stop
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looking into the matter.
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But some of us still dare to speak.
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Jean Lewis has also dared to speak, although regarding different
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circumstances. Appearing before the House Banking Committee,
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Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC] investigator Lewis charged
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that government officials had thwarted her investigation into the
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failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. "This committee should
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know that I believe there was a concerted effort to obstruct,
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hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation," she
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alleged. {1}.
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What is so daring about saying that? Lewis was close to the late
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Jon Parnell Walker, a Senior Investigation Specialist with RTC
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who had been trying to get the Madison case moved from Arkansas
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to Washington, DC. Soon thereafter, "Jon was looking over a
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possible new apartment in Lincoln Towers in Arlington, Virginia,
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when reportedly he suddenly decided to climb over the balcony
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railing and jump." {2}. So Lewis is daring in that, besides
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possibly harming her career, her testimony could lead her to
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"suicide".
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Oh but hey, the "American people" are tired of hearing about
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Whitewater. No, what they are tired of is the stupid O.J. Simpson
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trial. The American people are intensely interested in
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Whitewater, or they would be if they were honestly told the whole
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convoluted story. Instead, they are given the impression, by the
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newsfakers, that Whitewater "is just a minor dispute over a 69
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thousand dollar real estate development." {3}. *L'affaire
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Whitewater* is bigger than that. It is, according to *New York
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Post* reporter John Crudelle, a "massive financial scandal, the
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likes of which has never been seen before." {4}.
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The American people are sick to death of the putrid O.J. Simpson
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trial. "They're also tired of the media not asking proper
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questions about the Clintons," adds Sherman H. Skolnick, the
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Chicago-based investigator. "The way I describe it is, those that
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believe in 'fairy tales' have a hard time, in the beginning, when
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they hear what people like me say. If they've been believing only
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in the mass media, then they grew up believing in 'fairy tales'
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and in myths. My job, if I'm able to do it at all, is to disabuse
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them of the 'fairy tales' they believe in."
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"If I only read the [Chicago] *Tribune* and the [Chicago] *Sun-
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Times*, if I only listened to the local TV, what could I possibly
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know? Not very much."
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Skolnick, a long-time prober into Whitewater and related matters,
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makes the following prediction: "I now believe that, by Labor
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Day, the whole thing will be really heated up."
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"Today [August 8, 1995], until today [the investigation] was
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nothing. But starting, I think today, there's gonna be real
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noise."
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---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
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{1} Associated Press, August 8, 1995.
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{2} "Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs, and Sex" by Nicholas A. Guarino.
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{3} "Whitewater, the Federal Reserve, and the C.I.A." by Sherman
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H. Skolnick.
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{4} John Crudelle, segmented into ABC's *Nightline* on August 8,
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1995.
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