[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 94 (Tuesday, July 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 19, 1994]
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             QUESTIONS ABOUND ON THE DEATH OF VINCE FOSTER

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, additional questions continue to 
be raised regarding the untimely death of Vince Foster, the assistant 
counsel to the President of the United States. Vince Foster was killed 
or died by his own hand last July. But it was not until 9 months later, 
9 months later, after he was found at Fort Marcy Park that the FBI was 
called in to do an extensive investigation.
  Now, why did they wait 9 months before they went out there with 
forensic experts to get the information which should have been gotten 1 
or 2 days after he was killed or the same day?
  Why did Bernie Nussbaum, Patsy Thomasson, and Hilary Clinton's chief 
of staff go into Mr. Foster's office right after he was dead and for 2 
hours extricated files and took them out of his office, went through 
them very thoroughly, even though Mack McLarty, the chief of staff of 
the White House, ordered that office sealed? It was not sealed until 11 
a.m., the next morning, after they went in and extricated or took all 
those files out of there. And why 2 days later did they go back in 
again a second time and the FBI was there with them at that time and 
they ordered the FBI to stay out in the hall and sit in their chairs? 
In fact, one FBI agent got up and looked in the room, and they said, 
``Sit down, this is executive privilege,'' and they would not let them 
in. More of these questions will be asked and answered tonight during a 
special order.

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