Mitigating the Risk

The editors of the Washington Post correctly identify the risk:

The behavior depicted in the latest emails does not appear to have significantly harmed the conduct of U.S. diplomacy, distracted from Ms. Clinton’s performance or even, given the evidence available, been particularly frequent. It certainly is not enough to launch a criminal investigation. As political scandals go, this is middling, at best.

But it suggests that some donors to the Clinton Foundation may have seen their gifts as means to buy access — and it points to much bigger potential problems. Should Ms. Clinton win in November, she will bring to the Oval Office a web of connections and potential conflicts of interest, developed over decades in private, public and, in the case of her family’s philanthropic work, quasi-public activities. As secretary, she pledged to keep her official world and her family’s foundation separate, and she failed to keep them separate enough. Such sloppiness would not be acceptable in the White House.

but fail to identify any control. What would provide a control over the new Clinton White House’s continuing blurring of public and private? Fear of impeachment? Really?

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  • steve Link

    “will bring to the Oval Office a web of connections and potential conflicts of interest, developed over decades in private, public”

    What POTUS candidate would not have such a web?

    Steve

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