Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker explores an interesting revelation from Wikileaks involving former (and future?) presidential offspring Chelsea Clinton.
The biggest human interest story so far of the Wikileaks hack is the story of Chelsea Clinton’s discovery in 2011 that her parents’ nonprofit was full of conflicts of interest. They had set up a charity that allowed donors to get their way. At first, she tried reform, only to lose out to the entenched cronies. What emerges, in the context of Chelsea’s actions in the next few years, shows us how she reconciled herself to the realities of the Clinton Organization. …
… It sounds as though the then-31-year-old Chelsea, accustomed to dismissing everything negative about her parents coming from the Clinton-haters, started seeing actual internal data and was able to put two and two together. …
… Now imagine yourself as a 30-something young woman, raised by nannies and thrust into the world as a celebrity with no say in the matter. She’s gotten into the best universities in the world and just embarked on the ultimate academic status symbol.
And she discovers that her family’s slush fund is rife with conflicts of interest.
Here, Chelsea did the smart thing: she commissioned a report by Simpson, Thatcher, and Bartlett, a law firm as establishment as one can get. …
… It looks to me as if Chelsea gave it a try and lost out to the capos in the organization. She took the academic way out, studying another, far more benign group (in all likelihood), and discovered that even there, the donors end up calling the shots. Maybe that is how she rationalized her decision to go with the flow. Maybe it was her way of telling the world that it is pretty corrupt out there.
