The Death of Vincent Foster - Evidence of a Cover-up Who killed Vincent Foster? Was Vince Foster murdered? What really happened to Vince Foster?

A KEY witness in the investigation of the death of the White House aide, Vincent Foster, has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the US government of a conspiracy to obstruct justice and of a violation of his civil rights.

In a fresh blow to the FBI, already reeling from bad publicity after the mishandling of the Atlanta bombing, the witness, Patrick Knowlton, has named two FBI agents as defendants, alleging that they were part of an orchestrated scheme of intimidation.

Knowlton, the first witness to discover Vincent Foster's car at the crime scene on the afternoon of Foster's mysterious death, says that he was the victim of intense harassment in October 1995 after he accused the FBI, in an interview with The Telegraph, of falsifying his witness statements.

The intimidation, he claims, involved threatening gestures by a surveillance network of more than 20 people. It began, he says, on the day he received a subpoena to appear before the Federal Grand Jury to answer questions about the Foster case. The lawsuit alleges that the threats were intended to discourage him from telling the truth in his appearance before the Grand Jury and at the same time to discredit him.

"I never believed that anything like this could happen in the United States," said Knowlton, 41, a businessman in Washington DC. "They've turned my life upside-down and I'm not going to let them get away with it."

He was interviewed by the FBI in 1994 during the investigation of Robert Fiske. The Fiske Report concluded that Foster committed suicide for personal reasons. Knowlton claims that the report falsified his testimony and that of other crime scene witnesses.

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