Editing Ken Starr (section)

=== Investigation of the death of Vince Foster ===
{{Main|Vince Foster|Arkansas Project}}
On October 10, 1997, Starr's report on the death of deputy White House counsel [[Vince Foster]], drafted largely by Starr's deputy [[Brett Kavanaugh]], was released to the public by the Special Division. The complete report is 137 pages long and includes an appendix added to the Report by the Special Division over Starr's objection.<ref>{{cite book| url= http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015042166499;view=1up;seq=7| title= Appendix to the Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr.| series= Vol. 2 has title:Appendix to Report on the death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr., containing comments of Kevin Fornshill, Helen Dickey, and Patrick Knowlton| year= 1997| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102083520/http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015042166499;view=1up;seq=7 |archivedate=January 2, 2016 |publisher= HATHI trust digital library, Purdue University|volume= 2 | isbn= 9780160492747| access-date= }}</ref> The report agrees with the findings of previous independent counsel [[Robert B. Fiske]] that Foster committed suicide at [[Fort Marcy Park]], in Virginia, and that his suicide was caused primarily by undiagnosed and untreated depression. As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, "The [Starr] report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup," but "despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and [[First Lady of the United States|first lady]] tried to cover it up."<ref name="cnn">{{cite news| url= http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/23/starr.report/|title=Report: Starr Rules Out Foul Play In Foster Death|date=February 23, 1997|work=All Politics|publisher=CNN|access-date=June 25, 2009|archive-date=June 9, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609211503/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/02/23/starr.report/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[CNN]] also noted that organizations pushing the murder theory included the ''[[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]]'', owned by billionaire [[Richard Mellon Scaife]], and [[Accuracy in Media]], supported in part by Scaife's foundation.<ref name="jackson">{{cite news| url= http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/|title=Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife?|last=Jackson|first=Brookes|date=April 27, 1998|publisher=CNN|access-date=June 25, 2009|archive-date=March 7, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307061025/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/|url-status=live}}</ref> Scaife's reporter on the Whitewater matter, [[Christopher Ruddy]], was a frequent critic of Starr's handling of the case.<ref name="jurkowitz">{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADDD04414A7CA3&ext_hed=THE%20RIGHT%60S%20DADDY%20MOREBUCKS%20BILLIONAIRE%27S%20CASH%20FUELS%20CONSERVATIVE%20JOURNALISM%27%20S%20FIRES&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG|title=The Right's Daddy Morebucks; Billionaire's cash fuels conservative journalism's fires|last=Jurkowitz|first=Mark|date=February 26, 1998|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|publisher=New York Times Co.|access-date=June 25, 2009|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904065457/http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0EADDD04414A7CA3&ext_hed=THE%20RIGHT%60S%20DADDY%20MOREBUCKS%20BILLIONAIRE%27S%20CASH%20FUELS%20CONSERVATIVE%20JOURNALISM%27%20S%20FIRES&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG|url-status=live}}</ref>