'Vince Foster's Gun' Serial Number Searched Before
Death
When Vince Foster was found dead from an apparent gunshot
wound to the head in 1993, the government was quick to write off
the death as a suicide.
That sat well with Bill Clinton and Vince's closest confidante, Hillary
Rodham.
For years, detail after detail emerged questioning the official ruling.
Significant questions were raised about the unusual gun -- a .38 Colt
revolver made from the parts of three guns with two serial numbers
-- found conveniently in Vince's hand.
The Park Police said one of the serial numbers indicated the gun
was vintage 1913 -- and had no pedigree.
Foster family members insisted neither Foster nor his father ever
owned the old revolver.
Recently, a NewsMax.com reader named Craig Brinkley contacted
us.
Curious about the gun, Brinkley had filed a Freedom of Information
request with the FBI, asking details of requests on the gun's serial
numbers with the NCIC -- the National Crime Information Center.
The NCIC keeps records of all law enforcment inquiries of serial
numbers.
On March 23, 2001 the FBI responded to Brinkley's request.
Serial number 356555, one of the numbers on the gun, was never
searched, not by the FBI, the Park Police or by that "investigation"
by Ken Starr.
More curious: serial number 355055 was found on the frame of the
gun. Brinkley believes that was the gun's real nnumber.
That number was indeed searched by the Park Police, on the even
ing of Foster's death, more exactly at 22:45 EDT on July 20, 1993.
Interestingly, searches were conducted on the same serial number
no less than three times earlier that year before Foster's death, on
March 3, March 7 and April 29.
Was someone checking to see that this gun had a "clean" predigree
and was untraceable.
We called Marilyn Walton at the FBI's Access Integrity Unit. She
told us that the government does not disclose what law
enforcement agencies who requested a trace on the serial number.
She said it could have been made by local or federal agencies who
have access to the NCIC computer.
She noted that serial numbers are often duplicated, and usually
when a request is made, it includes additional information, such as
the gun's make and model.
In all four cases no such information was entered, just the number.