2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New emails highlight interaction between State, Clinton Foundation [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...warrantless spying, when they tried to force AG Ashcroft to sign off on it, on his hospital bed. Or that's the story we've been told, and I don't have any reason to disbelieve it. Showed some guts, showed some anger, even, at Bush junta's scumbag tactics--also determination to stop it (which he did).
Of course, he didn't go after Cheney on Halliburton. He should have. That was VERY corrupt. And so much more. ($1 Billion 'missing' in Iraq. Jeez.)
You may be right. But I think we make a mistake when we view the Establishment as a monolith. It has its serious rifts, even internal wars (CIA vs Rumsfeld's Pentagon/& Cheney, for instance). There are factions in every Imperium. Could be a whole lot of people don't like Clinton, and could be she isn't really in with the in crowd, but an aspirer, sucking up to all those billionaires and bad guys. Could be she's expendable if the strongest factions want Trump (or someone else they intend to throw it to). She strikes me as someone who is very unsure of her ground, kind of like Nixon.