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grand juror that when he returned the next morning he would bring
a map. His attorney protested the aggressive questioning to which
he was subjected, getting assurances that his client was not a
target of the investigation.
     There are a number of strange things about the Foster case,
but one of the strangest is the refusal of the TV networks and the
once great New York Times to tell the public about the
unanswered questions that probably explain why Kenneth Starr has
reopened this Fiske-closed case.
SENATE EXPOSES FLAWS IN FOSTER PROBE
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     The Senate Banking Committee has released two thick volumes of
depositions taken by its investigators probing the unanswered
questions about the death of former White House deputy counsel
Vincent Foster.  During the Senate hearings last summer, one of the
Republican senators commented that the committee's
investigators had discovered more in a few weeks than the special
prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno had learned in
six months.  The newly released documents show he is right.
Special Prosecutor Robert Fiske summed up his investigation with a
double-spaced, 58-page report that simply validated the inept
investigation conducted by the Park Police Keystone Kops.  He kept
under wraps all the interviews conducted by his FBI investigators.
The Banking Committee has now issued a 54-page typeset majority
report, together with dissenting views by the Republican minority.
But the real service performed by the committee lies in their
release of two volumes totaling 1343 pages of transcripts  of
testimony taken under oath, reports prepared by Fiske s
investigators and supporting documents.      These two volumes by
no means answer all the questions we have had about Foster s death.
In our view, a careful study of these documents strengthens the
claim that Foster s body was moved to Fort Marcy Park from some
other place.  We now have before us the statements of all the
personnel who were present the night the body was found.  All say
Foster was lying face up when they saw it.  All deny that they
moved Foster s head or saw anyone move the head.  Since all the
experts agree that the bloodstain on the right side of Foster s
face proves that his face had at some time rested on his bloody
right shoulder, this must be considered evidence that he did not
shoot himself, unattended, on the spot where his body was found.
     That casts doubt on the first conclusion of Fiske, who
explained the mysterious bloodstain by claiming, with no evidence
whatever, that one of the officers or medical personnel had
readjusted the position of the head.
     But the interviews and documents also cast strong doubt on
Fiske s second conclusion--that Foster killed himself because he
was depressed over the Travelgate scandal and some critical
comments about him in the Wall Street Journal.  The interviews with
people that worked with Foster and his friends strongly indicate
that he was not the kind of man who would be driven to suicide by
such trifles.  They also indicate that he loved his family, and it
is hard to believe that he would desert them in such a heartless
way, without even leaving a note of explanation, because he had
been subjected to some public criticism.
     For  five days after Foster's death, everyone said his
behavior was quite normal.  The secretary who brought his lunch the
day he died thought he must have planned to meet someone.  He was
a bit upset because she had taken so long, and he carefully removed
all the onions from his hamburger.  Was he concerned about bad
breath?   He ate his lunch and left, saying he would be back.  No
serious effort was made to discover where he went and who he saw.
That is the fatal flaw in the investigation.
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