hoo boy. this is the kind of thing we'll be seeing a lot of when Hillary actually announces [View all]

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Yes, a right wing source dug this up; the right wing will be spending a lot of time and money on opresearch and no, I don't think everything is out there as regards Clinton. This is an illustration of that. It's not made up. That's Hillary on the tape so defending it is tricky. btw, I don't see this as something terrible that she did. I get that people employ black humor over awful stuff, but the optics? they're bad. The tape is at link.


06.16.14
Why Was Hillary Clinton Laughing About Helping Suspected Child Rapist?

As a lawyer in the 1970s, Hillary Clinton defended a child rapist. Is it disturbing that in a taped interview recorded years later she is heard laughing over how she succeeded in securing a more lenient sentence for him?

It’s hardly unusual for a criminal trial lawyer to gossip about a courtroom triumph on behalf of a less than admirable client, often with gallows humor and over drinks after a hard day’s work.

But it’s highly unusual for a lawyer to boast and laugh about such a circumstance in an on-the-record interview with a journalist—and pretty much jaw-dropping when the lawyer is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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“This is beyond disturbing,” wrote veteran GQ magazine political correspondent Lisa DePaulo.

Former Washington Post reporter Ruben Castaneda commented: “Strikes me as the kind of dark humor you hear between cops, defense attorneys, and journalists. And yes, chuckling about this to a reporter looks bad. Appears like she was laughing about how clever she was as a defense attorney.”

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/16/why-was-hillary-clinton-laughing-about-helping-suspected-child-rapist.html