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KEN STARR'S SECRET REPORTS

Reed Irvine
Chairman, Accuracy in Media
March 15, 2001


When Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr released his report on the
death of former White House Deputy Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.
in October 1997, he refused to make public reports written by
three consultants that he had hired to study the case. Accuracy
in Media (AIM) sued the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC)
to obtain these and other documents that should have been made
public long ago. The three reports by Starr's consultants were
recently given to AIM. They appear to hurt Starr's case more than
they help it.

Take the report submitted by Dr. Brian Blackbourne, the San Diego
County medical examiner. Its text is only 3-1/4 single-spaced
typewritten pages. Dr. Blackbourne reports meeting with Dr. James
Beyer, the 75-year-old Northern Virginia medical examiner who
performed the autopsy on Foster. He says, among other things, "I
discussed the autopsy x-rays with him."

That suggests that there were autopsy x-rays to discuss, but Dr.
Beyer has testified under oath that he did not take any x-rays,
even though he checked the "x-rays taken" box on the autopsy
report. When asked about that discussion of the x-rays, Dr.
Blackbourne admitted that it was actually about the absence of
x-rays. He told me Dr. Beyer had explained their absence, saying
that his x-ray machine was not working on the day he performed
the autopsy. That was what he had told the FBI and the Senate
Whitewater committee.

When Dr. Blackbourne was told that the first call to service this
brand new machine was made over three months after Foster's
death, he was shocked. He asked, "Do you mean that they couldn't
take any x-rays for three months?" No, it meant that Dr. Beyer
was lying about the machine not working. What is worse, Starr's
investigators, and presumably Starr himself, knew that the claim
that the machine was not working was false. We know that because
the record of that first service call on Oct. 29, was included
among the documents AIM obtained from the OIC. They had
investigated Dr. Beyer's excuse and had found the proof that it
was false, but they did nothing about it.

Dr. Beyer had checked off "x-rays taken" and had told a Park
Police officer attending the autopsy that they showed no bullet
fragments in the skull. The x-rays were undoubtedly taken.
Crucial evidence had vanished, but Ken Starr and his
investigators did not disclose that fact, and there is no
indication that they tried to find what had become of them. They
didn't even tell Dr. Blackbourne that they had evidence that
exposed Dr. Beyer's lie.

It turns out that Dr. Beyer is an old friend of Dr. Blackbourne,
whose faith in his honesty appears unshakeable. He didn't know
that his old friend had used "Clintonspeak" to cover up his lie
about the x-rays when he testified under oath before a Senate
committee. When asked when the machine was repaired, he responded
that he had no x-rays in his files between two dates that spanned
the day of Foster's autopsy. He was allowed to get away with that
evasion.

Dr. Beyer claimed to have found an exit wound about the size of a
half dollar in the back of Foster's head that no one else saw. If
that were true and the shot had been fired where the body was
found, there would have been a bloody mess, but the police and
rescue workers and Dr. Donald Haut, the county medical examiner
who examined the body at the scene, all said there was very
little blood visible on the body and none on the surrounding
vegetation. Park Police Sgt. John Rolla had tried to find an exit
wound by feeling the back of Foster's head. All he could find was
a soft spot, and he reported that the bullet did not exit.

Dr. Haut told the FBI investigators that there was very little
blood and that he had seen more damage done by a .25 caliber
bullet. The gun found in Fosterís hand was a .38 revolver and the
casing of the expended round was HV, high velocity. If that had
been fired into Fosterís skull through his mouth, there would
have been a large exit wound and torrents of blood.

Starr stacked the deck in hiring Dr. Beyer's friend to evaluate
his work. Dr. Blackbourne won't admit that the evidence indicates
that his old friend has lied about the x-rays, but he should have
been informed before he wrote his report. Those who concealed
that evidence should be called to account no matter what
positions they now hold or hope to get.


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