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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: FBI SECRET REPORT ON VINCE FOSTER (News) (fwd)
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>This reponse to my previous post came in from the Burkett family:
>
>Hugh,
>
>I read with interest your post on the FBI Secret Report on Vincent
>Foster, and took note of the smug response FBI's number 3 man, Robert
>Bryant made when questioned as to why the FBI was involved at all in the
>Foster case. My husband and I regard Bryant as prime player in the FBI
>cover up of the 1991 murder of our son, Tommy Burkett. In October of
>1993, Bryant wrote a letter to the editor of the small Chantilly Times
>newspaper, which had been reporting on our efforts to get justice for
>Tommy. Bryant told the paper the FBI was not and had never been
>officially involved in any review of Tommy's case. However, we had
>received a letter from Bryant himself a few weeks earlier (Sept '93)
>stating he had reviewed information we had sent him, and asking for more
>information!
>
>Interestingly, the FBI had been frantically calling the Chantilly Times
>editor for days and trying to get her to retract a story in which a
>reporter mentioned Tom and I had met with federal agents and permitted
>them to take fibers from our home for testing. The frightened reporter
>telephoned my home and told me about the FBI pressure. I said I did not
>think the paper should retract one word. I said if the FBI didn't like
>the story they should write a letter to the editor. (At the time, we knew
>our phone was tapped, and we believed the FBI had tapped it). Lo and
>behold, Bryant immediately writes a letter to the editor of the Chantilly
>Times! In addition to denying "any review" of Tommy's case, Bryant
>called our son's murder a "suicide" and patronizingly spoke of our
>"dissatisfaction" with the Fairfax County Police Department's ruling.
>Bryant then stated that anyone "falsely" presenting himself as a federal
>agetn would be subject to prosecution.
>
>Well, the agents we spoke with have not been prosecuted, to our
>knowledge, for obvious reasons. We filed a complaint against Bryant for
>publicly commenting on a case he claimed he had not even reviewed, for
>siding with the local police against citizens' complaints, and for
>publicly characterizing how we feel about the FCPD cover up of Tommy's
>murder--(Claims we are "dissatisfied"!) It is not up to Bryant to decide
>how victims "feel" about government cover ups, or to make public
>statements about how victims feel. He has never even met us! If one of
>his sons were murdered and the murder covered up, I expect he would be
>much more than "dissatisfied"!
>
>By the way, when I first called the FBI to complain about Bryant's letter
>to the editor, the FBI insisted "no one at FBI" wrote that letter and
>that "The FBI does not do business in the press" and "does not write
>letters to the editor". I then sent them a copy, and they acknowledged
>"It looks like someone at FBI" did write the letter. The supervisory
>agent I spoke with said the "someone" --meaning Bryant--was "much higher
>up in the FBI" than he was.
>
>The OPR (office of professional responsibility) at FBI "investigated" and
>decided Bryant did nothing wrong by using his professional position to
>discredit our complain against FCPD, but OPR "forgot" to tell us that
>conclusion for several years, until our Senators wrote and asked the
>outcome of OPR's "investigation". How can people within the FBI
>"investigate" their #3 man (Bryant) objectively? And would any agent in
>the FBI do an objective civil rights investigation, when the #3 man has
>publicly supported the police agency in question?
>
>Apparently Bryant is "high" enough in FBI to lie and cover up with
>impunity. We have asked Senator Hatch to hold Senate Judiciary
>Committee hearings on the way FBI handled their "alleged" civil rights
>investigation of Tommy's death, and similar cases. For more information,
>and to read our most recent letter to Senator Hatch, please check our web
>site at http://www.clark.net/pub/tburkett/pacc/PACC.html
>We would be grateful for your support of our request for hearings on the
>FBI's handling of Tommy's case and civil rights cases in general. Please
>call or write Senator Hatch, or your own Senators! We have been fighting
>long and hard and have had one roadblock after another thrown in our way.
> We need your help.
>
>Beth George and Tom Burkett, parents of Tommy Burkett, whose murder is
>being clumsily covered by FBI and FCPD
>
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>Tommy had things he wanted to do.
>
>
>Tom Burkett & Beth George
>(703) 435-3112 (Voice/Fax)
>http://www.clark.net/pub/tburkett/pacc/PACC.html
>
>
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