Presumably, the FBI or someone is checking whose prints are on top of whose on the billing run, etc., to try to get a handle on the relative timing of various folks' handling of the billing run. For example, one would think that Hillary Rodham Clinton's prints would be "below" everyone else's except possibly one set of Vince Foster's prints.
We have not yet been told whether his prints were on the billing run (remember there are two sides to a sheet of paper), but we have been told it is his red ink handwriting. Maybe Vince is the kind of guy who never left any fingerprints. . . You know, cool, calm, collected, and clinically depressed too. . . Come to think of it, that is probably why, even though the "death weapon" was found in his hand at Fort MArcy, it had no fingerprints of Foster's on it. It takes a cool, calm, and collected guy to kill himself withouth evening breaking into a sweat! [Of course, fingerprints can be left without having oily or sweaty hands, it just helps the process!]
Remember how we have been told that Vince Foster wrote his "suicide note" some nine days before his death? For reasons unknown, he apparently tore up his own suicide note. It was found six days after the death (27/28 pieces of bright yellow torn up pieces of paper) in the bottom of his briefcase at the White House by Stephen Neuwirth, an Associate White House Counsel, who was packing up Vince's office stuff to be returned to the family. This is the briefcase that had been searched twice with the official searchers somehow not seeing the couple of dozen torn yellow piece of paper on the bottom.
I guess after tearing up his own suicide note, Vince had second thoughts and decided not to throw the pieces away, but rather to preserve them in the bottom of his briefcase. It is clear that Vince was a meticulous careful man, so this is the sort of thing he would do. By the way, his "assistant" of many years at the Rose Law Firm told the FBI that he did not tear pieces of paper up that he intended to dispose of. Instead, he crumpled them into a ball and tossed them into the wastebasket...
Now, the FBI has assured us that Foster's fingerprints do not appear on either side of the pieces of his "suicide note" even though he is apparently the person who tore up this note. Lisa says he wrote it (she thinks -- she never saw it until after his death) on Sunday afternoon, July 11, 1993, while he lying on the bed upstairs in the master bedroom of their rental home at 3027 Cambridge Place in Georgetown. You have to ask yourself how this note to himself (if he wrote it or part of it), written at home one Sunday afternoon in his bedroom, made it to the briefcase in his White House office.
To return to the fingerprint issue, for that matter, no one's fingerprints appear on either side of the pieces of torn paper -- though a partial palm print of Bernie Nussbaum's does appear (apparently placed while he was examining the torn up scraps that had been pushed together [with a pencil?] by Steve Neuwirth).
Question -- why do no one's fingerprints appear on the torn note that was written just 15 days before the pieces were found? Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently left fingerprints on the billing run, prints that the White House wants us to believe are years old. Did Hillary Rodham Clinton sweat a lot more than Vince, or what? Or did Vince decide to wear latex gloves while he was tearing up his own "suicide note?"
Think what each of your thumb-forefinger pairs physically does when you tear up a sheet of paper. Each time you tear the sheet of paper, each pair grips each side of the sheet of paper (four print contacts per tear). The note was torn into 28 pieces, meaning it was torn around 5-7 times. Of course, as the thickness of all the torn pieces gets thicker, the harder you have to squeeze your thumb-forefinger pairs together to still be able to tear the paper.
Kind of strange to leave no prints in this situation, right? Try to imagine a scenario more likely to leave prints on a piece of paper. All I can suggest is this scenario with the additional fact that the "tearer" massaged the sides of his nose firmly and extensively with his forefingers and thumbs (to pick up all that good oil there) before tearing up the note. Imagine a forger working laboriously to fake Vince's handwriting on all or part of the torn note. The forger would certainly leave fingerprints from all the careful, slow copying (or efforts to copy) of Vince's handwriting, right? There is no question that any such person's prints would have to be wiped from the torn note...
Vince did this with his bare hands and left no prints? Someone did it with latex glvoes and left no prints? The prints did not survive the 15 days between when the note was written (assuming it was torn up and dumped into the master bedroom trash can at the Foster home in Georgetown)? But Hillary Rodham Clinton's prints survived all these years on the billing run just because she casually flipped its pages (something I have done many many times with billing runs -- you don't exactly squeeze the print out to death when you flip through it)?
Sounds really contradictory to me. You can call this "sequel" "Beyond Beneath the Return of the Logic Choppers" or some such... This flick is bound to be a big hit in your neighborhood theatre!
Warm regards,
Hugh S.