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Foster's death was concluded to have been a suicide by inquiries/investigations conducted by the United States
Park Police, the
Department of Justice, the
FBI, the
United States Congress,
Independent Counsel Robert B. Fiske, and
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
[1] The FBI "was requested by the United States Park Police (USPP), Washington, DC to assist them in their current investigation" of the death of Vincent Foster.
[2] The FBI also participated in the investigation by Independent Counsel Robert Fiske where, with Fiske's attorneys "agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) questioned 188 persons and reviewed and analyzed thousands of documents."
[3]
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr relied on "experienced investigators with extensive service in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)."
[4] By using the FBI, the Office of Independent Counsel employed "the very agency it [was] designed to be independent from, the Justice Department."
[5] The final Report states "The investigation under the auspices of...Mr. Fiske was little more than an FBI investigation. Publicly available official federal government records indicate that throughout the 16 day U.S. Park Police investigation into the case, FBI participation was significant.
[6] The official final Report on the death of Vincent W. Foster consists of two volumes and is 137 pages.
United States Congressional hearings did not investigate the circumstances of Vincent Foster's death and specifically confined the Foster death inquiry to whether the White House was guilty of "improper conduct" during the course of "the Park Service Police investigation into the death."
[7]
After a three-year investigation, Starr concluded that Foster's death was a suicide.
CNN stated on February 28, 1997, "The
Starr report refutes claims by
conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup," but "despite those findings,
right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and first lady [Bill and Hillary Clinton] tried to cover it up."
[8]