You wouldn’t know it from the media, but Clinton’s efforts to smash the last glass ceiling has come crashing down around her as the result of a devastating report by CBS News about cover-ups of rampant sex crimes and drug abuse at the State Department under her watch. The report, based on an Inspector General’s memo, included charges of cover-ups of sex assaults on foreign nationals by a State Department security officer in Beirut, an ambassador reprimanded for soliciting prostitutes in his host country, members of Clinton’s own security detail’s “endemic” use of prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries and a drug-dealing scandal involving security contractors in Baghdad—all covered-up with alleged interference of investigators by higher-ranking staff.
Team Clinton knew Hillary had taken what for others would have been a career-ending hit. In response, Clinton’s debut on Twitter was rushed out within hours of the CBS story breaking. Clinton’s Twitter bio was hastily rewritten after news of her impending Twitter debut was first leaked to select reporters.
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The distraction worked for now. Reporters reacted like schoolgirls, gushing about Clinton’s bio and hipster-wannabe photo on her Twitter homepage.
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Curiously, the Inspector General’s memo cited by CBS News is dated October 23, 2012--two weeks before President Barack Obama faced reelection. The release of that memo by a patriotic American back then might have also doomed Obama’s dream of a second term.
Update: Tuesday morning the New York Post poured gasoline on the fire engulfing Clinton’s political career. The Post reports Clinton’s State Department covered-up the child sex exploits of the same ambassador accused of soliciting prostitutes:
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