What’s up with Hillary Clinton associating herself with classified-document-thief Sandy Berger? Matt Yglesias explains:
[W]hat you hear if you talk to people in left-of-center national security circles in Washington is that one of Berger’s informal responsibilities is basically to get in touch with former Clinton administration foreign policy hands and warn them in no uncertain terms that if they back Barack Obama, Clinton will win anyway and those who supported her rivals will pay the price.
In other words, like many leaders of semi-legitimate enterprises (think of the Corleone Foundation in Godfather III), Hillary calls on her criminal friends to handle the behind-the-scenes enforcement…
