There is a major story out there for our local sleuths who seemingly have a passion for national status: the Whitewater case. It is a fresh matter that involves real intrigue, starting with a corpse. It would be news because it runs to the inner circles of the White House involving the president and his wife.
The case is far more contaminated with deception, lies, coverups and inconsistencies and a higher potential for the charge of obstruction of justice than the Nixon affair. Why the lethargy from the press? Simply, it would skewer the writers' party of choice.Consider these revelations: The body of Vince Foster obviously moved from the place of demise to Fort Marcy Park by unknown parties. A gun in the hand of the deceased of a different caliber than the gunshot wound. A torn-up suicide note that had no fingerprints, declared a forgery by the nation's leading experts, and was found two days after Foster's briefcase was declared empty by the White House legal counsel.
Then the president's wife claiming she made no calls to the White House immediately after learning of her "close associate's" death when phone records revealed her statement to be false. Critical documents that would shed light on the case were spirited out of Foster's office and denied to Senate investigators under the false premise of lawyer/client relationship. Why would all this be if there is no smoking gun?
Recall that Hillary Clinton cut her political teeth as a lawyer on the Watergate committee. The lesson that many took from that scandal was: Nixon should have burned the tapes. Now, relevant documents cannot be found by the Senate Banking Committee looking into the Whitewater affair, so doesn't it make sense that Hillary learned from the Nixon incident and shredded the tapes? To an honest investigator that's a real story material with enough fuel for any writer's rocket-to-stardom.
Selective morality, as well as partisan politics, paraded about as journalism is unpalatable. What was good for Enid Waldholtz should be good for the president and his wife. What happened to the baying hounds? Apparently the shoe is now squeezing the wrong foot.
Lance Turner
Provo