Transparency

Good grief. Eight years. $60 million in taxpayer funded investigations. Hundreds of thousands of pages of financial documents, tax returns, contracts, daily schedules, and cancelled checks. And what did Ken Starr finally have to show for all that? A blue dress and a series of illegally recorded conversations between two of the most ignorant sluts who ever managed to evolve into bipeds. Between the two of them, they possessed the collective IQ of a fencepost, and enough personality disorders to populate an entire asylum.

What he discovered about Hillary was exactly nothing. Not one single thing he could even ask for an indictment on. A prosecutor needs only to ask for an indictment. Grand juries will almost always return one if a prosecutor so much as asks. They don’t have to find anyone guilty of anything. They only have to agree with him that the evidence supports the notion that there might be a reason to pay for a trial. So if he finds evidence, he asks them for permission to prosecute the case. And he got nothing. Exactly zip.

Eight years. $60 million. A positively rabid prosecutor who asked for, and received, illegal tape recordings and the investigative power of the FBI to assist him in his search for dirt. And he got nothing.

Is there a single one among us who could stand up under that kind of scrutiny? Most of us totally panic when the IRS sends an audit notice. Just imagine having 20 years of your life, your cancelled checks and credit card transactions, your most private humiliations, your husband’s philandering, your entire career, opened to public scrutiny by a man who is intent on destroying you both professionally and personally. Just imagine having your parenting skills, your sex life, and your personality defects the subject of dinner table discussions all over the country, night and day, for years on end.

The odd thing is that with all the reporters carrying on about how it’s their job to comb through her schedule and see if she was really just getting manicures, all they’ve really fixed on is where she was and who she was meeting with when the Lewinsky scandal hit the fan. Was Hillary in the White House while Bill was leaving stains on dresses? Yes, she was. Does she have a right to black out the name of the person she met with while Bill went on the air to say “I did not have sex with that woman?” Shouldn’t the media be able to question that person about what was said?

They say they want to know if she really did participate in high-level meetings and diplomatic missions. Hellooooo? Considering that the entire time she was in the White House she was vilified for acting like the “co-president”, and considering that people were outraged that she was her husband’s chief advisor and most trusted ally, and considering that Republicans nearly crucified her for taking the lead on health care reform and acting as an foreign ambassador who had the temerity to talk to world leaders instead of just shaking their hands in receiving lines, don’t you think it’s a little odd that they now say she was “just a First Lady” and didn’t sit in on those important policy decisions and meetings? That’s exactly what they spent 8 years complaining that she had no business doing since no one elected her. She was the dragonlady, rumored to be the real brains behind the throne, remember? Congressional Republicans speculated endlessly on who was really running the country.

Is there anything we don’t know about Hillary? And more importantly, is there anything left that we actually want to know?