Sotomayor Helped Puncture Vince Foster Conspiracy Theories

[Beacool]

By Jefferson Morley - May 29, 2009, 11:08AM

Among Sonia Sotomayor's many judicial accomplishments is the piercing of one of the federal government's unnecessary and counterproductive claims of secrecy--and the right-wing conspiracy theories it generated. As the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press notes, in 1995, Sotomayor ordered the public release of the legendary Vince Foster suicide note.

Sotomayor's Republican critics may not want to call attention to her jurisprudence in this case. Her order helped drain the fever swamps of right-wing fantasists who said that Foster had been murdered. It also effectively silenced the editors of the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh and others who had kept the bogus claim alive for years with little more than innuendo.

Foster was a White House deputy counsel in the first Clinton administration and a close friend of First Lady Hillary Rodham from their days as law partners in Arkansas. As the Wall Street Journal editorial page mounted a steady stream of attacks on the Clintons' investment in an Arkansas real estate development known as Whitewater alleging that they were hiding something (exactly what was never clear), Foster became despondent. He committed suicide in a Virginia park overlooking the Potomac River on July 20, 1993.

A day later the White House revealed that a torn-up suicide note had been found in Foster's brief case prompting Limbaugh to say

"had this sort of thing happened in the Reagan or Bush administrations, the press would be all over the White House, insisting that a cover-up was in progress."

In fact, Foster's suicide was exhaustively investigated. By 1995, two law enforcement inquiries and two congressional investigations reached the conclusion that Foster had committed suicide. Along the way, the contents of the reconstructed note were released. It revealed that Foster had written that the Clintons had not violated any law, that Republicans had "lied and misrepresented its knowledge" and that "The WSJ editors lie without consequence." The note itself was not made public out of deference to the feelings of Fosters' widow.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/29/sotomayor_helped_puncture_vince_foster_conspiracy/?ref=c1

[rcrush]

1. I'm still on the fence on that one.

[Beacool]

2. Well, I'm enjoying the fact that the Freepeers' heads are already exploding.

:rofl:

[Enrique]

3. she forged it

she'll probably forge a birth certificate for Obama too.

[Beacool]

4. Yeah, right..........

The right wingers will eat this up with a large spoon. Connect Sotomayor and Vince Foster? This is like finding the holy grain to their tin foiled minds. They'll again start the crap about the Clintons having Foster killed and how somehow Sotomayor covered up for them. Who knows, they are nutty.......

:crazy:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Yes. Attacking Clinton. What could be a better strategy!

:wtf:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. And make up some phony excuse to show he did NOT in fact murder his grandmother with his own two

hands because she was about to expose him as a Kenyan.