Hugh Sprunt Lecture on Vincent Foster Case on Google Video

August 12, 2007

[AJFavish]

I recently found my videotape of a lecture given by Hugh Sprunt in 1997 about the Vincent Foster case. Go to Google, go to the video section and search for "Hugh Sprunt". You will get links to all 15 parts of the lecture.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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[AJFavish]

A November 20, 1997 lecture about the Vincent Foster case by Hugh Sprunt is available on Google Video in 15 parts. The entire lecture is about 2.5 hours. Here are the URLs for the videos:

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6540096558580418551

Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3650607557376999520

Part 3: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5117787506042033329

Part 4: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4771410917789618196

Part 5: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1233942712165410832

Part 6: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7407223500630629420

Part 7: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8743916818180124701

Part 8: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=39934379545509127

Part 9: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3901333468901534696

Part 10: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1433963290573601325

Part 11: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8348173115001435578

Part 12: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7817039681300295259

Part 13: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2379228219163783308

Part 14: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7836383595097496127

Part 15: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4268519057068207681

[HAL9000]

What’s HSprunt up to these days? I haven’t seen anything from him in recent years.

[gcruse]

alt.current-events.clinton.whitewster

Those were the days, my friend.

[HAL9000]

Ah yes, the good times. I remember you there. “jqp” handled my posts.

[gcruse]

I remember jqp well. And Billy Beck, and Jasper, and crazy DC Dave, and many more.

[Col Sanders]

Funny...

I read that title and thought that this was "hugh" and that there were going to be "series" repercussions...

Sorry, nothing to contribute, that just struck me as funny.

Col Sanders

[justiceseeker93]

Ah, yes, the good times.

Although I wasn't here back then, I can vouch that a lot of new iformation about the Foster homicide has been developed since 1997 - when Sprunt gave that talk.

I've already reviewed the Sprunt tapes. Sprunt seems honest in his approach, although some on our side of the fence have had doubts about his integrity. He is thinking correctly on most of the issues he presents (of course he had time limitations which prevented him from discussing some others).

However, Sprunt seems to have one big blind spot when he trusts the truth of what Lisa Foster told the federal investigators. In fact, the "grieving widow" was in all probability part of the plot itself, and she had every motivation in the aftermath to cover up some very inconvenient facts which can be deduced from the evidence. Recall that she made out very well financially from her deceased husband's life insurancy policy payoff (which was in force even in the event of "suicide") and from the very timely transfer of oil leases from Vince's mother to Vince himself.

Careful critical analysis of Lisa's statements - i. e., exposing them as lies - go a long way to cracking the case.

[gcruse]

You think Foster’s wife had him killed? And stole the parking lot surveillance tapes? And carried him to FMP? And had his office prematurely cleaned out? And planted the fake suicide note?

[HAL9000]

It was certainly one of the sloppiest investigations ever - but I haven’t ruled out the theory that Foster committed suicide.

[AJFavish]

However, Sprunt seems to have one big blind spot when he trusts the truth of what Lisa Foster told the federal investigators. In fact, the "grieving widow" was in all probability part of the plot itself, and she had every motivation in the aftermath to cover up some very inconvenient facts which can be deduced from the evidence. Recall that she made out very well financially from her deceased husband's life insurancy policy payoff (which was in force even in the event of "suicide") and from the very timely transfer of oil leases from Vince's mother to Vince himself.

Careful critical analysis of Lisa's statements - i. e., exposing them as lies - go a long way to cracking the case.

Your point may be true, but unprovable based on publicly available information. Hugh was simply showing that the government's own reports are not supported by the government's own documents. At times, the government's own documents make outright deceptive statements in light of the government's own documents.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"...some on our side of the fence have had doubts about his integrity..."

Really? I'm amazed. They obviously have never met Hugh, then.

[ml/nj]

I haven’t ruled out the theory that Foster committed suicide.

"Don't believe a word you hear. It wasn't suicide. It couldn't have been." (Webster Hubbell on 7/20/93 in Washington to Phillip Carrol, godfather to Foster children, in Little Rock warning him of the coming disinformation blitz.)

"The thinking citizen who looks beyond your reports to review the medical, biographical and simply descriptive facts of the case will be left with the strongest impression this side of certainty that Foster was murdered." (James Dale Davidson WSJ Letter 4/11/95)

ML/NJ

[vharlow]

I’m thick, I know, but I don’t understand what could have come to light that would preclude Lisa getting these things, the insurance money, and the oil leases that would have been rightfully the family’s upon Vince’s death. They were married, legally, living together as husband and wife. She wouldn’t get life insurance if her name wasn’t in the spot marked “beneficiary” but I’m pretty sure it was. What would have prevented her just claim on these things? Nothing comes to mind, and I have a good imagination.

[thinden]

"Don't believe a word you hear. It wasn't suicide. It couldn't have been." (Webster Hubbell on 7/20/93

wonder what webster is up to these days?

[Ditter]

Lisa Foster knew the clintons as well as anyone alive. Don’t you think she was intimidated/scared to death of the clintons? If my husband had just been murdered by that pair (or I thought it) I think I would have been reluctant to point fingers at the most powerful couple in the world.

[justiceseeker93]

...I don't understand what could have come to light that would preclude Lisa from getting these things, the insurance money, and the oil leases that would have been rightfully the family's upon Vince's death. They were married, legally, living together as husband and wife...What would have prevented her just claim on these things?

The relationship between the two was going poorly, and they had in fact been living apart - a thousand miles apart - for five months before Lisa joined VWF in DC as supposedly "a last-ditch attempt to save the marriage." There was a pretty decent chance that each was seeing other people during that split up time. (That's merely some useful background.)

The life insurance policy paid off even in the event of "suicide" of the insured (quite unusual) but would certainly not have paid off if Lisa had participated in the murder plot. The fact is that there were powerful financial incentives for her to participate in the plot - and the cover-up of the murder as a "suicide." But these financial incentives would not be in place had she not seen to it that (1) the last insurance premium payment had been mailed and postmarked one day before the death and (2) the paperwork for the transfer of the oil leases from Vince's mother to Vince had been completed before the death. So the very fact that she told her husband to be sure to mail those two items from the WH on the day before the death was either (1) very good timing for Lisa by sheer coincidence or (2) sususpiciously suggestive that Lisa had foreknowledge of what was about to happen and was (affirmatively) preparing for it.

Lisa's actions on the day of the death and her avid participation in the cover-up are darn convincing of her involvement, to say nothing of the fact that she got lawyered up with a top notch Clintonista Washington criminal attorney immediately - despite the fact that she had only been in DC about a month.

[justiceseeker93]

Please see my post # 18. There was more than just fear that motivated her!

[vharlow]

Where are you getting these facts? What's your source on the life insurance policy? I was a licensed agent for years, and while a suicide clause is contained in most policies, that expires after usually 2 years. There's nothing unusual about that. Where did you get the information about WHEN the premium was mailed, when the oil leases were signed, etc? Even in the case of divorce, many divorce agreements include provisions that require life insurance policies to name the spouse as beneficiary, and I don't think those benefits would have been lost if someone other than Lisa killed him. People of that class don't divorce or split up with children without making provision for the ex-spouse that are usually quite comfortable.

I'm not saying she didn't participate in the cover up, but I just don't see any reason to assume she was complicit in the death itself.

My belief would be that she participated out of fear of the Clintons.

What I cannot understand about his family is why none of his children have sought greater knowledge about the death since they are already grown. Indeed, I suspect more fear.