O'Reilly: I'd Grill Hillary on Foster
NewsMax
November 26, 2001
Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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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