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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (210368)	12/15/2001 5:08:01 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

How can you conclude that it was not a gunshot that caused the butllet shaped whole without an autopsy? That is preposterous, to make conclusions without a complete forensic study as to the cause. --edit--No comment on the rape? Ken Starr and the democratic committe for justice will get squat from me. -- The Real Dirt on Kenneth Starr By Reed Irvine and Joseph C. Goulden March 2, 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The White House and its agents have mounted an unprecedented campaign to dig up dirt on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and members of his staff and to disseminate their findings to the news media. The President is publicly remaining above the battle, but his surrogates are working the TV talk shows, feeding his followers scraps of information, some true, some false. They have succeeded in demonizing the prosecutorial team and focusing public attention on their alleged misdeeds. Clinton becomes the victim and Starr his persecutor. Bill Clinton is a master of the Big-Lie technique. If reporters dare challenge his brazen lies with facts, they are attacked and shamed for asking "sleazy" questions or wasting time with old stories that have been put to rest. Those who are not intimidated by this must be attacked, discredited and even demonized. A year ago, we learned of a 331-page document called "The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" that was being distributed to friendly journalists by the White House. Its main purpose was to discredit anyone who dared question the findings of the official investigations of the death of White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster. They were described as kooks peddling outlandish conspiracy theories. If that didn't work, other steps could be taken. Chris Ruddy, whose stories about the Foster death in the New York Post forced the reopening of the investigation, was fired after publication of reports that the FCC might challenge the right of Post publisher Rupert Murdoch to own licenses for TV stations. Richard Scaife, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, hired Ruddy and enabled him to continue his investigation of the Foster case. Scaife was demonized by the White House as the mastermind behind a vast right-wing conspiracy to get Bill Clinton. Clinton surrogates linked Kenneth Starr to this alleged conspiracy when he announced that he planned to resign as independent counsel and accept a job with one of several universities that had received grants from a Scaife philanthropic foundation for several years. The fact that Chris Ruddy's articles in Scaife's paper have been highly critical of Starr and his investigation of Foster's death makes no difference to those who are trying to portray Starr as a member of their imaginary "vast right-wing conspiracy." Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) appearing on Meet the Press on March 1, as a White House surrogate in the attack on Starr, displayed a reckless disregard of the truth rivaling that of James Carville. He said, "The fact of the matter is Kenneth Starr has gotten totally out of control. He has this fixation of trying to topple the President of the United States. He's doing everything possible to do it. Take the Vince Foster matter. Vince Foster's suicide was investigated by two people, including a special prosecutor, found to be a suicide. Kenneth Starr comes in, spends millions of dollars more to reinvestigate it, drags Foster's family back into this, caused untold number of people to have to hire lawyers and everything else, and then in the dead of night slips out his report saying, ‘Why I just found the same thing,' after he's tormented everybody." The fact is that Starr's handling of the Foster investigation is a serious black mark against his otherwise distinguished career. Miquel Rodriguez, the prosecutor Starr hired to handle the investigation of Foster's death, was given to understand that what was wanted was a short investigation that would validate the finding that Foster committed suicide. When Rodriguez saw that there was strong evidence that Foster had not died where his body was found, he began to use the grand jury to try to find out where and how Foster really died. Rodriguez soon found that was not what his superiors wanted, and he resigned. From then on, Starr's investigation of Foster's death consisted of unsuccessful efforts to find evidence to prove that Foster died in Fort Marcy Park. To those familiar with the case, the claim that Starr spent three years trying to link President Clinton to Foster's death is a bad joke. It is obvious from the report he released last October that he was struggling to produce a report that would agree with the findings of the earlier investigations without being an obvious whitewash. The Foster case is replete with evidence of perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice involving President Clinton, the First Lady and some of their top aides. If Starr had wanted to topple Clinton, this would have been his opportunity. After Rodriguez resigned, the only person tormented by Starr's agents was Patrick Knowlton, one of the three eyewitnesses whose testimony shows that Foster was dead before his car reached the Fort Marcy parking lot. Knowlton is now suing two of Starr's agents. The three judges who appointed Starr were so impressed by a scathing critique of the Starr report written by Knowlton's attorney, John H. Clarke, that they ordered Starr to attach it as an appendix. It reveals some real dirt on Kenneth Starr, but the White House is not handing out copies to reporters.