"And then there's also the issue of murder with Vincent Foster. That's a much more serious charge than failing to seek legal advice, and yet we're all just blowing that off, and everybody's trying to focus on Newt Gingrich like a witch hunt, to bring him to the stake and burn him, because they don't like the policy that he's behind. And unfortunately, the policy that he reps works, so if you can't attack the policy, they're trying to attack the man behind it."
Christine O'Donnell in 1996, defending Newt Gingrich by forwarding the conspiracy theory that Vince Foster was murdered.
Crime reporter Dan Moldea interviewed police officers involved investigation. Moldea told Salon that the police were correct to conclude Foster's death was a suicide.
How did you go about investigating Vincent Foster's death?
I did what no one else had done -- I went to every single cop involved in this case -- whether he was involved in the crime scene search or part of the official investigation. I saw all the crime scene photographs and I saw all the autopsy photographs. I don't think I was prevented from seeing any of the documents I wanted to see. I am a bona fide crime reporter with great -- and loyal -- sources in law enforcement. I've been doing this for 24 years and you get to know people.
And from those sources and documents it was clear to you that Foster committed suicide.
Yes. It was a no-brainer. But I also looked into the aftermath of the suicide: the search of Foster's office, which led to the discovery of the torn-up note, which led to the interviews that law enforcement conducted, which confirmed, finally, that Foster had, in fact, committed suicide.
Moldea explains powerful conservative media moguls such as Richard Mellon Scaife funded conservative to print bogus investigative stories on how Vince Foster was murdered. So much for liberal media bias.
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