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→Patrick Knowlton
Knowlton was ridiculed in the Grand Jury, with Starr's prosecuter implying to the jury Knowlton was in the park looking for a gay rendezvous. His statement was ignored in the final report. Knowlton sued for inclusion over Starr's objections, stating the FBI had misrepresented and falsified his statements. The panel of three federal judges who appointed Starr allowed Knowlton to attach an appendix to the final Starr Report with his testimony of what he saw at Fort Marcy Park. Knowlton also documented ethical violations, witness intimidation, harassment, threats, and obstruction of justice by FBI officials.
Knowlton was ridiculed in the Grand Jury, with Starr's prosecuter implying to the jury Knowlton was in the park looking for a gay rendezvous. His statement was ignored in the final report. Knowlton sued for inclusion over Starr's objections, stating the FBI had misrepresented and falsified his statements. The panel of three federal judges who appointed Starr allowed Knowlton to attach an appendix to the final Starr Report with his testimony of what he saw at Fort Marcy Park. Knowlton also documented ethical violations, witness intimidation, harassment, threats, and obstruction of justice by FBI officials.
==Timeline==
*July 1, 1993, Thursday - Foster purchases a plane ticket from Washington D.C. to Geneva on TWA and Swiss Air.
*July 8, Thursday - Swiss Air refunds the purchase price of Foster's ticket. Foster had canceled the trip to Geneva "when he inquired about his numbered bank account at Banca Della Svizzera Italiana in Chiasso, Switz.--and found the account empty. Foster was shocked to learn from the bank that someone using his secret authorization code had withdrawn all $2.73 million he had stashed there and had moved it to, of all places, the U.S. Treasury."<ref>Jim Norman, ''Fostergate'', Media Bypass Magazine, August 1995</ref>
*July 11, Sunday - Vince Foster tells his wife Lisa he had written the opening argument for his defense against a feared congressional probe into his affairs. According to the Fiske report, Lisa believed this was the torn note found in Foster's briefcase by Stephen Neuwirth on July 26, six day's after Foster's death.
*July 12, Monday - Webster Hubbell receives Inslaw's rebuttal to the Bua Report. The rebuttal is dated July 11, 1993.
*July 16, Friday - Sheila F. Anthony allegedly effects an approximate $286,000 wire transfer from Mellon Bank to Lisa Foster. Sheila Anthony contacts a psychiatrist and tells him--according to the psychiatrist--that Vince Foster is working on "top secret" issues at the White House, and that "his depression was directly related to highly sensitive and confidential matters." But Vince Foster does not visit the psychiatrist. Instead the name of this psychiatrist, along with the names of two others, are found in his wallet after his death.
:*Clinton has a two hour meeting with Judge Louis Freeh.
:*In the evening Vince and Lisa Foster drive to the Tidewater Inn, on the eastern shore of Maryland.
*July 17-18, Saturday & Sunday - Vince and Lisa Foster spend the weekend on Maryland's eastern shore. By "coincidence" Webster Hubbell also spends the weekend in the area, and he and Vince Foster meet at the estate of Michael Cardozo, head of Clinton's legal defense team and son-in-law of prominent Democratic fund-raiser Nathan Landau.
:According to the Fiske report, "Lisa Foster stated that the weekend did not go particularly well for Foster. When Foster returned on Sunday evening, July 18, he spoke to Lyons by telephone." James M. Lyons was a Little Rock attorney who was Counsel to the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Planning Foundation. He says Foster discussed Travelgate, and they talked about his representing Foster before Congress.
*July 19, Monday - Marsha Scott, Deputy Assistant to the President, spends 1-2 hours in a closed door session with Vince Foster. This is especially noted by [[Linda Trapp]], executive assistant to [[Bernard Nussbaum]], because Foster rarely has meetings this long with any one person.
:*Foster calls Larry Watkins, his physician in Arkansas and says he is depressed. Watkins calls a D.C. pharmacy and has 30 tablets of DESYREL (Trazodon) delivered to Foster's residence before 6 p.m.
:*At 3:15 p.m. Clinton meets with Janet Reno to discuss the FBI. Afterward he fires FBI Director William Sessions, and appoints Floyd Clark as Acting FBI Director.
:*Webster Hubbell stops by Foster's office. According to testimony, Hubbell gives Foster a Systematics-related document.
:*Monday night Foster goes home earlier than usual. Bill Clinton calls to invite Vince to a movie back at the White House. Vince declines, and has dinner with Lisa.
*July 20, Tuesday - At 9:27 a.m. in the Rose Garden, Clinton nominates Judge Louis Freeh to be head of FBI. Clinton commends the FBI on the "remarkably swift arrest in the World Trade Center bombing" and laments that "drugs continue to ravage our young people and our streets".
:*In Little Rock, the FBI obtains a warrant to search the Little Rock offices of David Hale, the head of Capital Management Services. Hale was a Clinton-appointed municipal judge who charged that James McDougal and Gov. Clinton forced him to give fraudulent SBA loans to Clinton's friends. This included $300,000 to a company connected to Madison Guaranty and run by McDougal's wife, $100,000 of which later ended up in a Whitewater Development Co. account.)
:*James Lyons calls Foster from Little Rock late morning, but says he was unable to speak to him. Lyons was scheduled to meet with Foster the following day in Washington D.C.
:*C. Bradley Buck, a partner at the Rose Law Firm, calls Foster. Buck leaves a message when he is unable to speak to Foster. Foster calls back at 12:17 p.m. (D.C. time) and leaves a message for Buck. Buck then calls Foster back at 1:00 p.m., but Foster has gone out. Buck later tells the FBI his calls related to the blind trust he was working on with Foster for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
:*At 12:00 Foster asks Linda Tripp, executive assistant to Bernard Nussbaum, to get him lunch from the cafetaria. He eats lunch in his office. At about 1:00 p.m. he emerges with his jacket on and leaves, telling Tripp, "There are lot's of M&Ms left in there. I'll be back."
Later at 6 p.m. Foster is reported dead, his body found laying on a steep slope near one of the cannons at Ft. Marcy Park across the Potomac in Virginia. His 4-door Honda Accord bearing Arkansas license plates is found in the Park parking lot. The car is registered to Vincent Foster, Jr. of Little Rock, Arkansas.
:*A Park Service employee says that a man in a white contractor van had told him that he had seen a body by the last [second] cannon at Fort Marcy Park. This report was in the form of a 911 telephone call to the Fairfax County Public Safety Communications Center. The call was received by dispatcher Marion White at call-taker position 11, at 5:59.59 p.m.
:*The Secret Service is notified when a White House identification badge is found in the car.
:*White House staffers Bernard Nussbaum, Patsy Thomasson, and Maggie Williams rifle Foster's office for "national security matters". The FBI and the Park Police are kept waiting outside in the hallway. Secret Service officer Henry O'Neill says he saw Maggie Williams, Hillary's chief of staff, leave "carrying what I would describe, in her arms and hands, as folders". Some documents are taken to Hillary's closet upstairs at the White House.
:*The White House releases a statement saying, "The positive identification of Mr. Foster's body was provided to the White House at approximately 9:55 p.m., and the death was reported by Park Service Investigators as an apparent suicide."
*July 22, Thursday - At the afternoon press briefing, Dee Dee Myers says that the Park Service Police had been at the White House that morning; ". . . what they are looking for is anything that would confirm it was a suicide, such as a note".
:*Deborah Gorham, Vince Foster's secretary, is asked by Bernard Nussbaum to help search Foster's file. She observes that the index detailing the Clinton's personal files is missing.
==''Investigating the investigators?''==
==''Investigating the investigators?''==