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| The Shadow Campaign |
WaPo | To a greater extent than any modern politician, with the possible
exception of her husband and the late Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy,
Hillary Clinton and scandal are inseparable. While first lady, she was
caught up in the Rose Law Firm file flap and the White House travel office firings,
about which she denied knowing anything. At the State Department there
was Benghazi, the lack of candor about Benghazi, the phony
Accountability Review Board (which conveniently didn’t question her)
and the apparent scapegoating of four State Department employees who
seemed to have no real responsibility for the death of four Americans.
Unlike her first-lady excuses, she couldn’t very well say she didn’t
know what was going on in her own department. The stench of fundraising
scandals and the prison sentences of some of Clinton’s donors
almost get lost in the torrent of excuse-mongering. If she is not one
of the most dishonest pols of our time, than she must be a perpetual
victim (no doubt of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”) or the most
unlucky woman on the planet.
Since Clinton left office, controversy has swirled about the management of the Clinton Foundation. Now, thanks to the new memoir from former secretary of defense Robert Gates, it spins even faster.
