Foster Case Witness Claims Harassment, Sues Government
A witness in the Vincent Foster case is suing the government for $1.5 million, alleging two FBI agents and 26 other people conspired to discourage him from testifying about what he saw on the day the deputy White House counsel died.
Patrick Knowlton says the FBI falsified information he gave them and that he was harassed by people who followed him after his account in the Foster case became public.
The lawsuit, filed Oct. 25 in U.S. District Court, alleges that FBI agents and people who intimidated Knowlton conspired to violate his civil rights and inflicted emotional distress on him.
Two investigations concluded that Foster died in 1993 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Knowlton said that after giving information to the FBI, he was subjected to bizarre, frightening encounters.
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