| − | Vince Foster was the highest ranking [[Executive Branch]] official killed in office since [[John F. Kennedy]]. At the time of Kennedy's murder, the killing was supposed to handled as a [[homicide]] investigation by the [[Dallas]] police. However federal officials and the [[Secret Service]] removed the body and flew it back to [[Washington DC]], interfering with an ongoing investigation. After that botched investigation, federal laws were passed making various assaults or killing federal officials a federal crime. The [[FBI]] should have been the lead agency in the Foster death investigation. However various circumstances left the job to the US Park rangers, and not even the more experienced DC homicide police. Bill Clinton fired the head of the FBI the day before Foster's body was found in a federal park, at a time the Bureau was leaderless, stunned, and in chaos. | + | Vince Foster was the highest ranking [[Executive Branch]] official killed in office since [[John F. Kennedy]]. At the time of Kennedy's murder, the killing should have bern handled by the [[Dallas]] police [[homicide]] division. However federal officials and the [[Secret Service]] removed the body and flew it back to [[Washington DC]], interfering with an ongoing investigation. After that botched investigation, federal laws were passed making various assaults on or killing of federal officials a federal crime. The new law made the [[FBI]] the lead agency in Foster's death investigation. Various circumstances however left the job to the US Park rangers, and not even the more experienced DC homicide police were involved. Most profoundly was Bill Clinton's firing of the FBI Director the day before Foster's body was found in a federal park, while the Bureau was stunned, leaderless, and in chaos. |
| | [[File:Vince-foster-murder-clinton-696x445.png|right|300px|thumb|The Vince Foster gun. The weapon used to kill Foster and the gun found at the sceen, among other pertinent facts, raise inexplicable questions.]] | | [[File:Vince-foster-murder-clinton-696x445.png|right|300px|thumb|The Vince Foster gun. The weapon used to kill Foster and the gun found at the sceen, among other pertinent facts, raise inexplicable questions.]] |