Marinka Peschmann - Following Orders: The Death of Vince Foster, Clinton White House Lawyer

A sequel to:

THE WHISTLEBLOWER

How the Clinton White House Stayed in Power to Reemerge in the Obama White House and the World Stage

Following Orders

Copyright 2012-2013 Marinka Peschmann

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Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. Ephesians 5:11 (ESV)

Dedication

To truth-tellers who stand tall in the face of adversity and deception, who have the courage to speak truth to powerand never cave in to evil.

CONTENTS

Cast of Characters

KEY PLAYERS

Hillary Rodham Clinton, former first lady of the United States (1993-2001)

William Jefferson Clinton, former president of the United States

Vincent Foster, deputy counsel to the President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton, Bill Clintons childhood friend, and Hillary Clintons closest Rose Law Firm colleague, trusted confidante

Bernard (Bernie) Nussbaum, chief counsel to the president, shared a long history with Hillary that went back to President Richard Nixons Watergate impeachment effort, resigned humiliated in disgrace over his mishandling of the Whitewater and Foster investigations

Linda Tripp, Bernard Nussbaums executive assistant in the White House presidential counsels office, ex-army wife and career civil servant, who in 1998 made international headlines after she began taping Monica Lewinsky, President Clintons paramour, for insurance to protect herself from the Clintons as they attempted to fix another court case at which she would be called to testify

WHITE HOUSE AND ADMINISTRATION STAFFERS

Betsy Pond, Bernard Nussbaums secretary

Deborah Gorham, Vince Fosters personal executive assistant

Tom Castletown, White House intern

Bruce Lindsey, deputy counsel to the president, longtime Arkansas friend and Little Rock attorney

Steve Neuwirth, associate White House counsel, brought to Washington from Bernie Nussbaums New York law firm

Craig Livingston, director of White House security, an ex-bouncer from Arkansas, who took the fall for improperly obtaining hundreds of Federal Bureau of Investigations security clearances of Republicans that illegally ended up in the West Wing during the Clinton Filegate investigation; resigned disgraced

William Kennedy, counsel to the president, longtime Arkansas friend, Rose Law Firm lawyer, who was reprimanded in the Clinton Travelgate investigation

Maggie Williams, Hillarys chief of staff and longtime friend from Arkansas, who accepted $50,000 during the Clintons campaign finance scandal investigation, Chinagate

Patsy Thomasson, director of White House administration, with access to the West Wing despite not having a security clearance, also involved in the travel office investigation, long-time Arkansas ties

David Watkins, White House operation director, also involved in Travelgate, and longtime Arkansas friend

Dee Dee Myers, press secretary

George Stephanopoulos, Clinton communications director

Mark Gearan, White House chief of communications director

Thomas Franklin Mack McLarty, chief of staff, a lifelong friend of Bill Clinton and Vince Foster from Arkansas

Webster Hubbell, top Justice Department official, longtime Clinton friend, Hillarys close colleague at Arkansas Rose Law firm, indicted three times and convicted in the Whitewater investigations

Deb Coyle, worked outside President Bill Clintons Oval office

Henry P. ONeill, secret service officer, an eighteen-year veteran

OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT COUNSEL (OIC)

Robert Fiske, independent counsel

Kenneth Starr, independent counsel

U.S. PARK POLICE INVESTIGATORS

Chief Robert Langston

Major Robert Hines

Detective Peter Markland

John Rolla

Cheryl Braun

CW, Confidential Witness

Lisa Foster, Vince Fosters wife

Prologue

W hile it might have initially appeared that the deputy counsel to the president of the United States was taking a nap in a parklying neatly face-up on a steep embankment with his feet pointing downVincent W. Foster Jr. was not napping. He was dead. Dressed in expensive trousers and a white dress shirt, less than eight miles from the White House, he was lying dead. A single gun-shot wound to the head. Dead. Some of the blood on Fosters face was still wet, but starting to dry. A trail of blood flowed upwards from his nose to above his ear. It was July 20, 1993. President William Jefferson Clintons Arkansas childhood friend, and First Lady Hillary Clintons Rose Law Firm partner, and White House confidante was dead.

At the pinnacle of his law career, where rumors of a U.S. Supreme Court appointment abounded, Foster, the loving husband and father of three, who worked directly with the most powerful couple in the world, was dead. The tall, handsome, Southern gentleman, would never see his forty-ninth birthday, never laugh, smile, or speak again. The twinkle in his hazel eyes was forever darkened. Vince Foster was dead.

It was an executive assistant in Hillarys presidential counsels office, Linda Tripp, who was officially one of the last people to have seen Foster alive in the White House.

White House reporter: Considering Mr. Fosters position and his status [in the Clinton White House], isnt it reasonable to assume that law enforcement agencies are at least going to make some attempt to determine a motive here? For example, if you dont do that, youll leave open wild possibilities, such as that he may have been being blackmailed or anything like thatjust to rule those things out? Dont you think its reasonable that a law enforcement agency will attempt to establish a motive?

Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers: My only point, is that at this point, the Park Service Police is the only agency thats investigating [Vince Fosters death], and that the objective of their search is simply to determine that it was a suicide.

Are we clear? The objective of the investigation into Vince Fosters death was simply to determine that it was a suicide [emphasis mine]. The conclusion was predetermined. From the get-go, homicide, foul play, the possibility of blackmail, a potential risk to Americas national security, was never investigated. Facts be damned. Vince Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park. No need for the Clinton White House to cooperate with investigators or the press. They didnt. Case closed. Move on

In America there has been a slow, creeping destruction of the freedom of speech and of the rule of law, and soon all Americans will lose free speech completely if they do not fight for it now. Though the road to silencing legitimate questions from the media and Americans alike may have been a long, deliberate one, crafted by those in power like Hillary and Bill Clintonused to stay in power, and to thwart the rule of lawit becomes harder to reverse the silencing trend, expose government malfeasance, and hold corruption accountable if people do not stand up and speak now. Like an undiagnosed cancer, silence permits corruption to grow. Not to speak is to speak. You