O'Reilly: I'd Grill Hillary on Foster

NewsMax.com ^ | 11/26/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Fox News Channel rising star Bill O'Reilly says he doesn't think he'll ever get a chance to interview New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

But just in case, he's got a list of questions all ready to go - a full half of which deal with Mrs. Clinton's late confidant and one-time Whitewater lawyer, Vince Foster, who was found shot to death in a Virginia park in 1993.

"Forty-five minutes after the suicide of your friend, White House counsel Vince Foster, you called your assistant Maggie Williams and sent her to Foster's office. Why?" O'Reilly asks in an imaginary grilling of Hillary in his best-selling new book, "The No Spin Zone."

"Another White House counsel, Bernie Nussbaum, removed files from Foster's office and refused to hand them over to investigators, citing attorney-client privilege. Did you ever talk about those files?" he asks the former first lady.

The Fox News star also wonders about Mrs. Clinton's billing records, which were finally discovered with Foster's handwriting all over the margins.

"They mysteriously turned up inside the White House living quarters with your finderprints on them. How did that happen?" O'Reilly asks Mrs. Clinton.

In his book, Hillary's answers are all left blank.

O'Reilly is one of the few journalists who will acknowledge publicly what most will only say in private: that the apparent cover-up of the circumstances of Foster's death will continue to be a legitimate area of inquiry for as long as the Clintons are in public life.

In December 1999, the Fox host had this extraordinary exchange with independent counsel Ken Starr, who closed out Foster's death as a suicide in 1997.

O'REILLY: Now, some of your investigators have told us off the record that they believe Vince Foster did not commit suicide and that your office was not aggressive enough in investigating the Vince Foster situation. How do you reply?

STARR: Bill, you didn't get that from my investigators. I don't know who you got it from.

O'REILLY: I did.

STARR: Oh, I ...

O'REILLY: I did.

STARR: They - they did not think that ...

O'REILLY: I got it from one of your investigators, I have to tell you. I would never say an untruth on this program.

STARR: All right. OK. All right. Let me just say this.

O'REILLY: Go ahead.

STARR: We looked at every aspect of that invest - of that death, and we came unanimously - those of us involved in it, so I will look forward to finding out who this person was ...

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Other topics O'Reilly said he would like to pursue with Mrs. Clinton include questions about her suspect commodities trading and her use of air force jets in her campaign to become senator from New York.

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[Senator Pardek]

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[Syncro]

Instead of Foster how about a Bar-B-Que?

Oh that's right...toxic fumes.

[backhoe]

O'Reilly: 'I'm on a Jihad Against Elite Media'

[DoughtyOne]

Well, when you get right down to it, I think the Clintons were very close to terrorists in our own nation. I still believe that if all were known the Clintons would be residing in ajoining cells at the gray-bar hotel.

[DeaconRed]

"Well, when you get right down to it, I think the Clintons were very close to terrorists in our own nation. I still believe that if all were known the Clintons would be residing in ajoining cells at the gray-bar hotel.

My feelings exactly! ! ! ! !

[MeekOneGOP]

O'Reilly is one of the few journalists who will acknowledge publicly what most will only say in private: that the apparent cover-up of the circumstances of Foster's death will continue to be a legitimate area of inquiry for as long as the Clintons are in public life.

Yeah? Well, WE know. . .

VINCE FOSTER - The Mirage of Suicide and The Reality of Murder

What does Patrick Knowlton Know? More on the Vince Foster case***

[MeekOneGOP]

[Samizdat]

Thanks for the flag. Hey, in Barbara Olson's new book, she makes an rather abrupt but subtle about face on Foster. In her first book, Hell to Pay, she called Foster's death a suicide in a rather matter-of-fact fashion. Then, in four instances in her new book, she calls it a mysterious death. She also has some questions for Hitlery about it. Maybe its wishful thinking but I think I detect a crack in the silence armor on Foster.

[Samizdat]

Thanks for the flag. Hey, in Barbara Olson's new book, she makes an rather abrupt but subtle about face on Foster. In her first book, Hell to Pay, she called Foster's death a suicide in a rather matter-of-fact fashion. Then, in four instances in her new book, she calls it a mysterious death. She also has some questions for Hitlery about it. Maybe its wishful thinking but I think I detect a crack in the silence armor on Foster.

[AmishDude]

Barbara had always been very careful to document everything and I suppose that it would have distracted from the theme of her book to bring up the strange case of Vincent Foster.

[spectre]

"crack in the armour of silence"...

I have no idea what happened to Foster, but doesn't anyone find it interesting that the former Mrs. Vince Foster has NEVER given an interview?

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[Northern Yankee]

I'd like to see OReilly grill Hellary on a Weber!

[christianswindler]

I was not aware that Ken Starr's own staff had doubts about Ken Starr's conclusions. So far as I knew, they all seemed pretty supportive at the time.

[christianswindler]

Why can't GWB have this entire matter reinvestigated?

[FreedomPoster]

I still believe that if all were known the Clintons would be residing in ajoining cells at the gray-bar hotel.

Great idea! I like the torture aspect of forcing them to spend time with each other.

[Tymesup]

There's a guy named Father Monty with a website and a few pages on Foster. He's got a picture of Foster's house sitting abandoned and going to seed. I guess Mrs. Foster didn't want anything to do with cleaning things up, or somebody volunteered to help. I was just at the website, probably within the last two weeks, so it should be out there. I should have bookmarked it.

[LoisHunt]

I'm pretty sure I did read an interview with Mrs. Foster in the New Yorker. She wasn't arguing any of the official findings, I think.

[Samizdat]

I have no idea what happened to Foster, but doesn't anyone find it interesting that the former Mrs. Vince Foster has NEVER given an interview?</i.

Did you know she is fighting in court the release of crime scene photos? She can't get her kids to join her in this effort though. There must be some knock down drag outs going on in that family about now.

[Samizdat]

Why can't GWB have this entire matter reinvestigated?

Why indeed?

Unless he does something about this, I will never trust him completely. It is not a matter of going after a previous administartion. This is a matter of winking at murder for political gain in the USA. We are not a third world country or at least we are not supposed to be. We are supposed to be a country of the rule of law and this is so far opposed to that, that it must be dealt with.