'She Kind of Feels Immune . . . She Lives in a Bubble.'

Here’s Bob Woodward, Watergate reporter, assessing Hillary Clinton’s “Turn into nonpaper with no identifying heading and send nonsecure” instruction to a staffer:

Here is Hillary Clinton, somebody who worked on the staff of the Nixon impeachment committee, and what was lesson one of the lessons from that? Never write anything down! She did years of Whitewater investigations, where she was the target and here, many years later, she’s saying, “Oh, let’s subvert the rules” and writing it out herself! Whether that’s some sort of crime, I think is not the issue. The issue is it shows she kind of feels immune, that she lives in a bubble and no one’s going to ever find this out. Well, now we have.

Elsewhere, Fox News reports the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail as secretary of state isn’t just looking at the insecure handling of classified information; it’s now expanded to look at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws.

Fox News quotes three intelligence sources.

One intelligence source told Fox News that FBI agents would be “screaming” if a prosecution is not pursued because “many previous public corruption cases have been made and successfully prosecuted with much less evidence than what is emerging in this investigation.” 

A former top Justice Department official told our John Fund that “he has no doubt that the FBI report will eventually leak, especially if the DOJ ignores its recommendations.”

Democratic primary voters may have decided that, like Bernie Sanders, they’re “tired of hearing about the damn e-mails!” But the rest of the country may not be so forgiving. The evidence is pretty clear; examine the list of Clinton Foundation donors and the decisions that flowed out of her office, and wonder how likely it is that they’re all purely coincidental. Under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the U.S. State Department authorized arms deals to Clinton Foundation donors, authorized Russia’s purchase of 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply, gave six of eight prestigious awards to Clinton Foundation donors, and saluted Nigeria’s human-rights record while Bill Clinton collected $700,000 speaking fees from a Nigerian entrepreneur tied to his country’s government.

Going back to 2013, journalists investigating the Clinton Foundation diagnosed “an undertow of transactionalism in the glittering annual dinners, the fixation on celebrity, and a certain contingent of donors whose charitable contributions and business interests occupy an uncomfortable proximity.” But it’s unthinkable that that same culture of transactionalism would extend to Hillary’s office in the State Department, right?