various "conspiracy theories" have been circulating connecting Foster to the NSA, although there doesn't seem to be any substantial, verifiable connections-- UNTIL NOW. below the amazing british reporter Evans-Pritchard, who has broken much of the Foster information, states that Deborah Gorham, Foster's executive assistant, gave testimony that he was handling NSA documents near the time of death!!! (Evans-Pritchard was quoted a few weeks ago of being "skeptical" of the more extreme Foster-NSA theories, although he has pointed out the many inconsistencies associated with the Foster "suicide"...) this Foster thing continues to gain steam.. apparently Newt Gingrich has hired an independent investigator... frankly, I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Clinton administration... or perhaps even the Presidency as we know it... BTW, a hot Foster URL with all the extreme theories/releases is http://www.cris.com/~dwheeler/n/whitewater/whitewater-index.html the most amazing stuff on this page claims some publishers were attempted to be *bribed* in not releasing Foster info/stories.. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 07 Aug 95 03:04:34 0600 Subject: Ambrose throws scat in the oscillator http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et/access?ac=111146825878&pg=//95/8/7/wambro0 7.html Secret service link in death of Clinton aide By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington VINCE Foster was handling top-secret intelligence files at the White House before his violent death in July 1993, according to sworn testimony given to the Senate Banking Committee. Deborah Gorham, Foster's executive assistant, gave a dramatic new twist to the widening Whitewater investigation into the financial affairs of Hillary and Bill Clinton. Gorham told Senate lawyers that Foster, Deputy White House Counsel and an intimate friend of the Clintons, stored documents from the National Security Agency in a safe next door in the office of his boss. The Telegraph has obtained a full copy of Gorham's deposition, which was taken behind closed doors on June 26 and never been released to the press. She testified that Foster handed her the files for safe storage in March or April of 1993. Asked what the documents looked like, she replied: "There were two one-inch ring binders that were from the National Security Agency." She referred to the NSA files with precision three times in her testimony. The Senate investigators, however, did not seem interested in this surprising disclosure and moved on quickly to other matters. When Gorham appeared as a witness in televised hearings last Tuesday, the subject never came up. The National Security Agency is a legendary arm of US intelligence. It is controlled by the Defence Department and has a far larger budget than the CIA. Its chief function is to collect intelligence from satellites and by eavesdropping on telephones and computer traffic all over the world. Foster's job as Deputy White House Counsel was to handle legal matters concerning the institution of the presidency. While his office might handle classified documents from the FBI or other law enforcement agencies from time to time, it would be highly unusual for him to get mixed up in the foreign espionage activities of the ultra-secret NSA. Gorman said that these two files were the only ones Foster ever handed to her for storage in the safe. She also testified, however, that Foster kept a file on the Waco disaster locked in a cabinet in his office, which may belie White House claims that Foster never played a significant role in the storming of the Branch Davidian stronghold by the FBI. There is no proof that Foster ever had any dealings with the NSA There is no proof that Foster ever had any dealings with the NSA, or any other branch of US intelligence. But allegations have been flying on the Internet computer superhighway and in political newsletters on both the Left and the Right over the past few weeks claiming that he was an NSA operative during the 1980s. It is alleged that he took care of legal matters for a computer company in Arkansas that installed "bugged" software on behalf of US intelligence in commercial and central banks all over the world. At the time, Foster was head of litigation at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas. It has never been established that he did, in fact, do work for this computer company. But his partner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was the attorney of record on two known occasions, once in 1978 and then again in April 1986 (during the term of Bill Clinton's Governorship) when a federal court clerk inadvertently revealed her role in a case by releasing details of a sealed law suit. The staff of the Independent Counsel investigating Whitewater has been asking some questions about this subterranean software nexus after receiving a letter from Elliot Richardson, the former US Attorney-General. Richardson, who has followed the affair closely, has suggested that it might be linked in some way to the death of Foster. Jim Leach, the Chairman of the House Banking Committee, has also been looking into the computer mysteries in preparation for his own congressional hearings into Whitewater, this week. In a parallel development, The Telegraph has learned that the House Judiciary Committee is beginning to prepare for possible hearings into gun-running and drug-smuggling in Arkansas. Terry Reed, a former Air Force intelligence operative, has been asked if he is willing to testify about his experiences in a covert operation based at the Mena airport in the mid-1980s. I want to know whether they're for real this time, or whether it's just another of their political pillow fights" After watching the charade of Republican hearings into Waco and Whitewater over the past three weeks, Reed has mixed feelings about this prospect. "I want to know whether they're for real this time, or whether it's just another of their political pillow fights," he said. He is the plaintiff in a civil-rights suit that is cracking open the great Arkansas scandal quite effectively through the power of legal "discovery". Last month, he took sworn testimony from a secretary at the Criminal Intelligence Division of the Arkansas State Police who said that she helped shred sensitive documents revealing the involvement of Bill Clinton's Arkansas in the Contra support operation run by Lt Col Oliver North. In another deposition, L. D. Brown, the Arkansas State Trooper, has now repeated under oath the allegations published in the August edition of the American Spectator magazine. He said he was recruited by the CIA in 1984 - with the encouragement of Governor Clinton - and flew on two missions to Central America to deliver M-16 rifles to the Nicaraguan Contras. On one of the return trips, he discovered the aircraft was carrying cocaine into Arkansas. He confronted Clinton, but was told not to worry. "That's Lasater's deal," said the Governor, referring to Dan Lasater, a business tycoon and political supporter who was later convicted on federal cocaine charges. Over dinner at the Cosmos Club in Washington last week, Trooper Brown said that his old friend Bill Clinton was complicit in a major drug-smuggling operation. That, he said, is something that cannot be forgiven.