From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton Scandal Primer
From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton Scandal Primer
The Atlantic
Things ought to be looking a little brighter for Hillary Clinton this week.
The House Benghazi committee, her main source of irritation for months, is now going through its own harsh turn in the spotlight. After Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy seemed to suggest on TV that the panel was created largely to hurt her, there’s been increased scrutiny of its mission, and McCarthy himself ended up withdrawing from the race for speaker of the House. Meanwhile, a fired staffer has gone public with allegations that the committee had become politicized and was more interested in harming Clinton—just like McCarthy said—than it was in finding out the truth about the September 11, 2012 attacks in Libya.
And yet Clinton isn’t quite in the clear. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported on how the setup of Clinton’s private email server may have made it vulnerable to hacking. The Washington Post has a report on how Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, Cheryl Mills, implausibly spent her first four months on the job working as a volunteer—at the same that she drew a paycheck from New York University for work that included negotiating with the government of Abu Dhabi on the college opening a branch there.
Even during what ought to be a good week, Clinton can’t seem to escape the drip-drip of controversies that have helped bog down her presidential campaign so far.
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