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On 21 March 2017, the web site The Last Line of Defense published a story that appeared to report that U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) arranged for the body of Vince Foster to be exhumed as part of an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Foster took his own life on 20 July 1993, and the circumstances surrounding his death in part formed the basis of long-circulating conspiracy theories that Clinton associates were often found dead under mysterious circumstances. Foster's death was ruled a suicide in multiple investigations. The claim about Gowdy's purported order was picked up by several dubious sites, but there is no truth to it; the story originated with The Last Line of Defense (The Resistance), an openly fake news outfit whose disclaimer states: The image used to illustrate TheLastLineOfDefense.org's article was from 2014 (not March 2017), and was published as part of a news report about finding the identities of unnamed dead individuals. TheLastLineOfDefense followed up this fake news piece with another one positing that a post-exhumation autopsy of Foster's remains had prompted doctors to issue a ruling changing the manner of his death from suicide to homicide: The site then put out yet another article in the series holding that Foster's exhumed body had been stolen from the morgue:
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