Topic

Scandals

25 articles 2016–2018

Yes, 'It's a Scandal'

Mark Hemingway · October 28, 2016

Around every election, basic cable stations dust off their copies of All the President’s Men and start airing it. For better or for worse, Watergate is still central to modern politics and especially modern journalism. It's encouraging, of course, that we still want to believe no American,…

Absolute, Categorical Lies

Stephen F. Hayes · September 2, 2016

On March 10, 2015, Hillary Clinton told reporters at a rare press conference that she had “absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department."

Aiding and Abedin

Stephen F. Hayes · August 26, 2016

As Bill Clinton entered the final year of his presidency, his aides put together a legacy-building trip to South Asia—the first visit to the region by a U.S. president since Jimmy Carter's in 1978. Early drafts of the itinerary featured a notable exclusion: The president would visit India, an…

Clinton Looks Like Nixon at California Rally

Jenna Lifhits · May 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton was in high spirits at a rally in California Wednesday, throwing up a Nixon-esque peace sign and laughing heartily, hours after an audit revealed that she broke federal rules with her use of a private email server.

The Email Saga

John Bolton · February 5, 2016

For alumni of U.S. national-security departments and agencies, Hillary Clinton’s email saga is mind-numbing. The publicly available information makes clear she and her aides violated so many elementary security prohibitions that alumni are speechless. They wonder, had they done what she did, how…