Brit Hume's son Sandy died in mysterious Vince Foster-like circumstances on Feb. 22, 1998, during the impeachment imbroglio. It was officially labeled a suicide.
Below is a quote from the Clinton Body Count:
On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Indeed, it was reported in Associated Press that the Arlington Police were not responding to any inquiries.
Hume was a reporter for The Hill magazine, newspaper about Congress for Congress, and had broken a major story in 1997 regarding the friction between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a faction led by Representative Paxon (who announced his resignation just 24 hours after Hume's death).
In addition, Sandy Hume had just joined the staff at Fox TV News and was just three weeks into a job that represented the pinnacle of his young career. Oddly enough, aside from echoing the one Associated Press story, the Fox News website has ignored the death of its newest commentator.
Sandy already had a reputation for getting the story that nobody else wanted to look at, and it is worth noting that his death came hard on the heels of reports that "a reporter" was about to break a story confirming the White House's use of investigators to dig up dirt on critics and investigators.
It has recently been confirmed that the man who performed the as-yet-unreleased autopsy is none other than Dr. James C. Beyer, who has a record of concealing homicides behind a ruling of suicide.
oh my goodness I have never read/heard that before....how sad for Mr Hume...
JESUS...I had no idea!
I'm not questioning this Freeper's sincerity, but I'm sure this kind of conjecture is very hurtful to Brit, and I think we might want to consider eliminating it. Losing a man's son is difficult enough without having it bandied about in the rumor mill. Just a thought.
That's awful. The Clinton's are such insidious evil.
I remember it was the (rising GOP star) Paxon resignation and susequent dropping-off-the-face-of-the-earth aspect of the story that really wrinkled my forehead.
Also, if I recall, many of the threads which mentioned this story here on FR ended up deleted for reasons unknown.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. It's plausible that the family simply wanted this to remain a private matter and the media respected their wishes.