Subj: Vincent Foster and Waco
Date: 2/11/01 8:22:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time
From: sammy.finkelman@moondog.com  (SAMMY FINKELMAN)

I found something that could shed a little insight into
what happened at Waco:

Date: 02/10/01 (03:51) Number: 37448 of 37546 (Refer# NONE)
To: SAMMY FINKELMAN
From: heizer@home.com , RAY HEIZER

Subj: CAS: Tripp on Foster on LKL


L. TRIPP: ... After I spoke freely to the independent counsel about Vince
Foster, I was asked to leave the White House, and they offered me a
political appointment, which...

KING: The Pentagon?

L. TRIPP: Yes. Which essentially ensured that in order to maintain my
livelihood, I would belong to them. And it worked. It worked for quite some
time.

...

...

KING: Let me name same people and your thoughts back on them. Vince Foster?

L. TRIPP: Oh, a wonderful man.

KING: Did you know he was depressed?

L. TRIPP: Let me relay a little story to set this up. Vince Foster, when I
first met him -- and over time I used to say to him that he was far more
representative of a Bush White House appointee than a Clinton. He was
dignified, decent, caring, smart. When Waco happened, that's when I first
knew that Vince was falling apart.

KING: How so?

L. TRIPP: I was with him -- well, we had CNN all the time, not to plug, but
it was always on in the White House. And a special bulletin came on showing
the atrocity at Waco and the children. And his face, his whole body slumped,
and his face turned white, and he was absolutely crushed knowing, knowing the
part he had played. And he had played the part at Mrs. Clinton's direction.

Her reaction, on the other hand, was heartless. And I can only tell you what
I saw.

KING: How do you know they were involved in this? I thought this was a Reno
action of which Janet played and felt very sorry.

L. TRIPP: This was...

KING: Foster-Clinton?

L. TRIPP: Foster, Mrs. Clinton, Webb Hubbell, Janet Reno.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
KING: And you liked him more for that?

L. TRIPP: I always liked and respected. Look -- it's like anything else.
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned. He earned my respect from day
one. And...

KING: You saw him right before he left, right?

L. TRIPP: I was the last one to see him, so they claim. <---------------
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KING: What did he say, I'm going to get a...

L. TRIPP: No, I had already given him his lunch. He said, I'll be back.


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Note by Sammy Finkelman: This interview isn't clear on exactly what Foster
did. Linda Tripp doesn't elaborate much here. But Carol Moore mentioned a
long time ago that he was involved in meetings. Most logically, he might have
been coming up with arguments against FBI Director William Sessions' water
cannon plan (which was needed in order to support the tear gas plan)

This sounds like Foster believed nobody would get killed or at least
that not so many would. It might not be that he intended the compound
to be burned down. You have to try to figure out a way in which all
the facts fit. One idea that I get frrom this is that maybe this
might explain the fire trucks and the notification of Parkland Memorial
Hospital nd the hiospital in San Antonio. Notifying them did not make
that much sense if the intention was to kill all of the Davidians,
but I assumed maybe the intention was to leave a few survivors. I
think maybe taht and fire trucks can be explained noty in terms
of overall public relations, but in terms of what was necessary
for some members of the conspiracy to burn the compound. They
would know about the fire trucks, or the warnings - or possibly
do them themselves and think that not too many people would get
killed, while the intention actually might not have been that at all.

About Hillary's reaction. This sounds somewhat similiar to Bill's.
Now this would not be their actual attitude. It would be calculated
rather. The idea would be to affect the kind of attitude that they
hoped would be emulated by other peoiple around them - not to care.

That's important if you wanted them or expected people to die and did
not want people to do a postmortum on the events that led to that. If
people are not sorry they won't go over thinbgs too much - and if
they don't review the events they won't notice perhaps some peculiar
things.
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WHY WACO?
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SAMMY FINKELMAN