2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Clintons Have Not Changed: The Clintonian War on the IGs
Posted on March 3, 2016 by William Black
By William K. Black
February 23, 2016 Bloomington, MN
Secretary Hillary Clinton is asking Democratic voters to believe that she has experienced a Road to Damascus conversion from her roots as a leader of the New Democrats the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. When exactly this conversion occurred is never stated, but an interesting fact has emerged that demonstrates it did not occur during her service as the Secretary of State. A Wall Street Journal story provides the key facts, but none of the analysis.
Newly released emails indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top staff were involved in the selection process for the State Departments internal watchdog, a position that ultimately went unfilled throughout her four-year tenure.
The WSJs angle is that such involvement in the selection of the Inspector General (IG) is a threat to the IGs vital independence. True, and also true as the story notes that Hillary was far from rare as an agency or department head in seeking to select behind the scenes the supposedly independent IGs.
The function of the IG is to speak truth to power. Naturally, power hates IGs with a purple passion. Government leaders are most likely to hate having its abuses made public by IG when the government leader is secretly acting in concert with immensely powerful private leaders for their mutual benefit at the expense of the public.
remainder: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/03/clintons-not-changed-clintonian-war-igs.html#more-10101
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I find it amusing which threads are allowed to sink and which ones are responded to.
Must not be talking points out about this, focus groups take time...
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Bernie needs to talk about this and it does not get more serious nor more
legitimate an issue.
Thanks for your reply.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)"Newly released emails indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top staff were involved in the selection process for the State Departments internal watchdog, a position that ultimately went unfilled throughout her four-year tenure. "
During Hillary's tenure she refused to seat the very person who's job is to see that State Dept SOP would be followed. To make sure that it's ethics and internal and external dealings are above board. Let that sink in for a while.
Can anybody explain why that would be?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)because of it...they're a beneficiary. Not good, no matter how you look at it, imo.