THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, January 7, 1995 TAG: 9501070237
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
Whitewater prosecutors are reopening some aspects of their investigation of Vincent Foster's suicide, summoning three rescue workers before a federal grand jury to testify about the scene of the White House lawyer's death.
Two of the witnesses who appeared Thursday at the U.S. Courthouse had told the FBI previously they saw a briefcase in Foster's parked car at the park where the suicide occurred, according to FBI interview documents.
U.S. Park Police, who investigated Foster's July 20, 1993, death, recovered no briefcase from the car. Park Police Maj. Robert Hines said Friday that the two rescue workers were simply mistaken.
Nonetheless, independent counsel Kenneth Starr has taken at least some aspects of the Foster suicide before a grand jury.
On Thursday morning, prosecutors were overheard discussing plans to present photos from the scene of Foster's suicide at Fort Marcy Park in Virginia to grand jurors in U.S. District Court in Washington.
Later in the day, at least two rescue workers went in to testify before the grand jury, which met into the evening, according to one non-government source familiar with the proceeding.
The thoroughness and competence of the initial investigation and the evaluations drawn from it are under review, the source said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The review covers not just the manner of death but ``What did Foster bring with him to Fort Marcy and what happened to it?'' the source said. ILLUSTRATION: Foster
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