22 December 2007

Is Hillary or Obama More Vulnerable to Right-Wing Attacks?

By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Posted on December 22, 2007, Printed on December 22, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/71266/

Even as Hillary Clinton's operatives were dropping hints that Republicans would exploit Barack Obama's youthful drug use, some Clinton insiders privately worried about her own vulnerability because the Bush administration possesses detailed knowledge of her movements -- and her husband's -- over the past seven years.

Because of Sen. Clinton's unique status as the first former First Lady to run for President - and because her husband was succeeded by a Republican -- she is the first candidate to have both her and her spouse be subject to regular, long-term surveillance by an Executive Branch agency controlled by the opposing political party.

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