An unspoken political vulnerability of Sen. Hillary Clinton is that she is the first presidential candidate to have both her and her spouse subject to regular, long-term surveillance by an Executive Branch under the control of an opposing political party.
Since they left the White House in 2001, Bill and Hillary Clinton -- as the former President and First Lady -- have been under the protection of the Secret Service, a branch of the Treasury Department. Records are maintained showing where they go and, to an extent, whom they meet.
Ordinarily, those records are kept as closely held secrets, but theoretically at least, President George W. Bush -- with his expansive view of his powers as "unitary executive" -- could gain access to them, either formally or informally.
His father did much the same when his subordinates scoured the passport files of then-Arkansas Gov. Clinton in 1992, looking for a "silver bullet" that would kill off the Democratic nominee's presidential hopes.
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