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SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW ARKANCIDED VINCE FOSTER CASE
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A lower court has ruled the photos are subject to the Freedom of Information
Act, and should be released.
For those of you who weren't tuned in in 1993, Vince Foster is the childhood
friend of Bill Clinton who allegedly was having an affair with Hillary! Hillary
ordered the ransacking of his office minutes after he was suicided. Maybe this
will blow the lid off this murder!

Court to review Foster photos

By MICHAEL KIRKLAND, UPI Legal Affairs Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review whether
photographs relating to the 1993 suicide of White House deputy counsel Vince
Foster were properly withheld by the independent counsel's office.

A lower court has ruled the photos are subject to the Freedom of Information
Act, and should be released.

Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park in McLean, Va., his pistol in his
right hand. Conspiracy theorists maintained that Foster had been killed on the
orders of President Bill Clinton, or on his behalf. Investigations by the U.S.
Park Police, the FBI and House and Senate committees all concluded that Foster
committed suicide.

An investigation by special counsel Robert Fiske Jr. and a separate
investigation by his successor, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, concluded
the same thing. Starr said in a 58-page report that the "overwhelming weight of
the evidence compels the conclusion that Vincent Foster committed suicide."

Accuracy in Media, a public interest group that maintained Foster's suicide
note was a forgery, filed a request with Park Police seeking autopsy
photographs and photos of Foster's body at Fort Marcy Park.

The government refused, and a federal appeals court in Washington agreed,
saying they were exempted from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA.

AIM said it wanted the photos to uncover "government foul play," the appeals
court said, but unless the group had some compelling evidence it was not enough
to justify an invasion of privacy.

Attorney Allan J. Favish, who represented AIM in the case, then filed his own
FOIA request with the independent counsel's office to obtain the photos.

When the office refused, Favish filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles.

Though a federal judge again said that there was no evidence justifying the
invasion of privacy, a divided appeals court panel reversed, saying evidence
was not necessary.

When the case was sent back to trial court, the judge, under the appeals court
guidance, ordered the release of five of the 10 photographs of Foster's body,
including one that had been previously published in Time magazine.

The government, joined by members of Foster's family, appealed. This time, an
appeals court panel ordered the release of nine of the 10 photos.

When the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, with headquarters in
San Francisco, refused to hear the case, the government asked the Supreme Court
for review.

The justices granted review Monday without comment in a one-line order. Though
not yet scheduled, the case probably will be heard next fall.

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(No. 02-954, Office of the Independent Counsel vs. Favish et al.)

Copyright 2003 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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