British newspapers are comparing the suicide of
Weapons-gate scientist David Kelly to the death of Vincent Foster,
the top aide and friend to Bill and Hillary Clinton who was found
shot to death in a Virginia park 10 years ago yesterday.
"The Prime Minister and his entourage were obsessive observers of
the Clinton years and Dr. Kelly's death instantly reminded them of
the suicide of Vince Foster," London's Sunday Telegraph reported.
"In the eyes of the Blairites - the lesson of Foster's death and
what it led to has always been clear and chilling," the paper said,
noting that the 1993 imbroglio spawned the Whitewater investigation
and eventually led to President Clinton's impeachment on a separate
matter.
Kelly's demise, coming just days after he denied telling the BBC
that the Blair government had "sexed-up" its intelligence on Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction, prompted the London Observer to revisit
the Foster case as well.
"[Foster] had, it seemed, shot himself," the paper noted. "Within
months, it was being suggested in newspapers and on radio stations
that Foster had died because he 'knew something' incriminating about
the Clintons' involvement in the so-called Whitewater affair and
couldn't take the pressure."
The Observer complained that after Foster's death, America's
"right-wing press used and abused any argument to try and portray
[Clinton] as a devious semi-criminal," adding, "It feels like that
now over here."
But as the Telegraph observed, "The two fatalities, of course,
have almost nothing in common. ... Foster was a close friend of the
Clintons, while Dr. Kelly, a quietly-spoken microbiologist, had no
association with the New Labour elite."
The paper might have also noted other key differences.
The Clintons, for instance, immediately began behaving
suspiciously after Foster's body was found, with top aides rifling
the dead lawyer's office after taking calls from the first lady.
Then there was the suicide note that belatedly appeared in a
briefcase that had already been searched and emptied.
Dozens of death scene anomalies also prompted suspicion; so much
so that most independent investigators remain convinced that, at a
bare minimum, Foster did not die where his body was found.
So far at least, nothing so strange has emerged to cloud Dr.
Kelly's suicide, let alone implicate Prime Minister Blair in
anything remotely resembling a Foster-like cover-up.
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