Supreme Court Rules Government Does Not Have To Release Foster Suicide Photos
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The US Supreme Court ruled today that the
government does not have to release 11-year-old photographs from
the suicide of Clinton administration White House lawyer Vincent
Foster.
Like Clinton, Foster was from Hope.
The unanimous decision makes it more difficult to use a public
records law to access law enforcement records. Justices said the
privacy rights of survivors outweigh the benefits of releasing some
photographs.
A California attorney had sought the pictures, saying they might
prove that Foster was murdered as part of a White House cover-up.
Multiple investigations determined that a depressed Foster shot
himself in the head at a Civil War-era park in Virginia in 1993.
The 48-year-old longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton
was handling several personal legal matters for them at the time.
