- When Vince Foster was found dead from an apparent gunshot
wound to the head in 1993, the government was quick to write off the death
as a suicide.
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- That sat well with Bill Clinton and Vince's closest confidante,
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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- For years, detail after detail emerged questioning the
official ruling.
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- Significant questions were raised about the unusual gun
- a .38 Colt revolver made from the parts of three guns with two serial
numbers - found conveniently in Vince's hand.
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- The Park Police said one of the serial numbers indicated
the gun was vintage 1913 - and had no pedigree.
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- Foster family members insisted neither Foster nor his
father ever owned the old revolver.
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- Recently, a NewsMax.com reader named Craig Brinkley contacted
us.
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- Curious about the gun, Brinkley had filed a Freedom of
Information Act request with the FBI, asking details of requests on the
gun's serial numbers with the NCIC - the National Crime Information Center.
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- The NCIC keeps records of all law enforcment inquiries
of serial numbers.
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- On March 23, 2001, the FBI responded to Brinkley's request.
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- Serial number 356555, one of the numbers on the gun,
was never searched, not by the FBI, the Park Police or by that "investigation"
by Ken Starr.
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- Serial number 355055 was found on the frame of the gun.
Brinkley believes that was the gun's real number.
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- That number was indeed searched by the Park Police, on
the evening of Foster's death, more exactly at 22:45 EDT on July 20, 1993.
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- Interestingly, searches were conducted on the same serial
number no fewer than three times earlier that year, before Foster's death,
on March 3, March 7 and April 29.
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- Was someone checking to see that this gun had a "clean"
predigree and was untraceable?
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- We called Marilyn Walton at the FBI's Access Integrity
Unit. She told us that the government does not disclose which law enforcement
agencies requested a trace on the serial number. She said it could have
been made by local or federal agencies who have access to the NCIC computer.
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- She noted that serial numbers are often duplicated, and
usually when a request is made, it includes additional information, such
as the gun's make and model.
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- In all four cases no such information was entered, just
the number. Walton added that many guns share similar serial numbers.
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- Is it a coincidence that in the year of Foster's death,
four searches were conducted on the serial number found on the old gun
- none ever before or after?
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