Bill Clinton Assigned Staff To Investigate Himself?
This (subscription-only) story in The Atlantic by the Hotline's Marc Ambinder illustrates the surreal world of the Clinton marriage...
That's why, at [Bill Clinton's] prompting, researchers at his presidential library and his offices in Harlem embarked on a highly secretive two-year project: investigating their own boss.
The team conducted a painstaking reexamination of all the well-worn issues from Clinton's presidency, poring over trial transcripts, internal White House documents, notes, and public and private correspondence, searching for any overlooked information that could be used to give new life to old embarrassments. Perhaps more important, the researchers covered Clinton's postpresidential history too, with a muckraker's eye, including the rumors about his private life that inevitably trail him.
All but a handful of Clinton's staff and friends were kept in the dark about the vetting process, though two who did know about it confirmed its existence to me. Neither would describe how the results were disseminated or who has access to them now. But the purpose of the exercise is clear enough: Bill Clinton wants to know what everybody else could know about Bill Clinton.
Well, that's... normal.
"Do me a favor, will ya? Investigate who I've been seen with. I can never remember."
Now, here's the question that this report leaves unanswered... has Senator Clinton seen the completed report?
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