Time: Sat Aug 30 06:21:47 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA01671; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 06:20:15 -0700 (MST) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA13400; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 06:18:26 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 06:16:49 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: FBI SECRET REPORT ON VINCE FOSTER (News) (fwd) <snip> > >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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > >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 > > > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: "J. Orlin Grabbe" <kalliste@aci.net> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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