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SoberSecondThought ago

I've upvoted this, and I have no problem with most of what you wrote. I just want to give my perspective.

The strongest evidence that Foster was killed comes from eyewitness Patrick Knowlton, who pulled off the highway into Fort Marcy Park to pee. Knowlton only realized the next day, when he saw a news report about Foster, the importance of what he had seen.

Knowlton told the FBI that the Honda with Arkansas plates that was parked at Fort Marcy was a brown hatchback, not Foster's blue sedan. This matters enormously. The park is very small and there were only three vehicles in it when Knowlton arrived. The occupants of the second vehicle were interviewed and cleared. The occupant of the third vehicle was a scary guy who eyeballed Knowlton the entire time, which is why Knowlton paid such close attention to his surroundings.

Knowlton was subjected to lengthy, repeated harassment. This was a coordinated effort between the FBI and the prosecutor's office. It started with the FBI badgering him and insisting that he was wrong about the color of the Honda; then his vintage car was destroyed; next the FBI agent recorded that Knowlton had admitted that he was unsure about the color; and "lost" his interview for over a year by filing it under the wrong address and misspelling his last name. When a journalist nonetheless managed to locate Knowlton, and asked him about what he actually saw, Knowlton was very upset at what the FBI claimed and insisted on testifying to the commission. This triggered a huge campaign of harassment that went on for days. Knowlton's girlfriend, the journalist, and a lawyer all witnessed the harassment in the street; meanwhile Knowlton was treated very badly by the inquiry itself. He was accused of being gay, of having gone to Fort Marcy for sex; and his testimony was more or less dismissed as a fantasy.

There was a panel of three judges overseeing Ken Starr's inquiry. They insisted on allowing Knowlton to submit a twenty-page deposition about what he saw, what happened at the FBI, and the subsequent harassment. Starr did not want Knowlton's testimony, but the judges overruled him. No mainstream media outlet covered Knowlton's deposition. In defiance of the court order, Starr left it out of his published report.

In other words, the REAL outcome of the Starr commission was a finding, certified by three judges, that the FBI had harassed a key witness, whose story established that Vince Foster did not drive himself to Fort Marcy Park. What is more, when Knowlton and his lawyer published a lengthy analysis of the evidence (including all kinds of other incredibly suspicious stuff like Foster's car keys not being on the body), William Sessions (the FBI Director fired by Clinton) volunteered that he thought their story needed to be looked into.

I won't go on and on about this (at least not right now). I just want to underline the key point, which is that a court supported the accusation that the FBI had engaged in a cover-up and that Foster did not commit suicide. We have been told absurd lies about this episode for more than two decades, and the media have simply ignored the lies.