FBI Reports Linking Hillary to Vince Foster “Suicide” Just Disappeared from the National Archives

Vince Foster was a mentor to Hillary when they worked together at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.  When Bill was confirmed as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993, Foster took a role as his Deputy White House Counsel.   6 months later, to the day, Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, along the Potomac River, of an apparent “suicide” resulting from a gun shot from a .38 caliber revolver.

Like a lot of things surrounding the Clintons, Foster’s “suicide” has always been shrouded in mystery.  A few months ago, The Daily Mail interviewed former FBI agents Coy Copeland and Jim Clemente who claimed that Hillary “triggered” Foster’s “suicide” by “humiliating” him in front of colleagues just a few days before his death.  

‘Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting,‘ Copeland says. ‘She told him he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.’

Indeed, Hillary went so far as to blame Foster for all the Clintons’ problems and to accuse him of failing them, according to Clemente, who was also assigned by the FBI to the Starr investigation and who probed the circumstances surrounding Foster’s suicide.

‘Foster was profoundly depressed, but Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly embarrassed him in front of others,’ says Clemente.

‘Hillary blamed him for failed nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front of his White House colleagues, ‘You’re not protecting us‘ and ‘You have failed us,’ Clemente says. ‘That was the final blow.’

After the White House meeting, Foster’s behavior changed dramatically, the FBI agents found. Those who knew him said his voice sounded strained, he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished. At times, Foster teared up. He talked of feeling trapped.

On Tuesday, July 13, 1993, while having dinner with his wife Lisa, Foster broke down and began to cry. He said he was considering resigning.

That weekend, Foster and his wife drove to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where they saw their friends, Michael Cardoza and Webster Hubbell, and their wives.

‘They played tennis, they swam, and they said he sat in a lawn chair, just kind of sat there in the lawn chair,’ Copeland says. ‘They said that just was not Vince.

He loved to play tennis, and he was always sociable, but he just sat over in the corner by himself and stared off into space, reading a book.’

Two days later, Foster left the White House parking lot at 1:10 p.m. The precise time when he shot himself could not be pinpointed. After Park Police found his body, they notified the U.S. Secret Service at 8:30 p.m.

Based on what ‘dozens’ of others who had contact with Foster after that meeting told the agents, while Foster was already depressed, ‘The put-down that she gave him in that big meeting just pushed him over the edge,‘ Copeland says. ‘It was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.’

No one can explain a suicide in rational terms. But the FBI investigation concluded that it was Hillary’s vilification of Foster in front of other White House aides, coming on top of his depression, that triggered his suicide about a week later, Copeland and Clemente both say.

The Daily Mail is now reporting that an “extensive investigation” has found that FBI reports filed by those former agents have “gone missing” from records stored at the National Archives and Records Service in College Park, MD.  On two occasions, reporters went to the National Archives to review boxes of evidence related to Vince Foster’s death.  While the boxes contained “dozens of FBI reports concerning Foster’s death – including interviews with the medical examiner, U.S. Park Police officers, and White House aides about the contents of Foster’s office” it was mysteriously missing the reports of Copeland and Clemente.

Growing suspicious of the missing reports, The Daily Mail filed a FOIA request with Martha Murphy of the National Archives who subsequently reviewed all of the “relevant FBI files, including those that had not been previously made public.”  An emailed response from Martha Murphy reported that the FBI files requested could still not be found:

“He examined all eight boxes but found no interviews by any investigator that detail either a meeting between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster or the effects of a meeting between Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster on Vince Foster’s state of mind.  We did not limit ourselves to interviews by the two individuals [FBI agents] you mention.”

But to be clear, according the Director of Communications and Marketing at the National Archives, John Valceanu, just because the FBI agents’ reports could not be located doesn’t mean they’ve been vanished:

‘We do not agree with your conclusion that the records you requested are missing from the National Archives simply because we were unable to locate any responsive records in response to your request.’

Instead, Valceanu suggested the files might just be misplaced among the other 3,000 boxes of records related to the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton’s Whitewater scandal.

Certainly, we can understand how difficult it must be to keep track of all the boxes of FBI evidence related to past Clinton investigations but it does seem suspicious that this specific report would be the one to go missing.