I find her to be among the most self-righteous people I’ve ever known in my life. And it’s her great flaw…
–Former Clinton White House aide Bob Boorstin to Carl Bernstein
Information from the forthcoming and competing Hillary Clinton biographies is emerging not quite two weeks before their often-changed publication dates. The Washington Post today says A Woman in Charge, by former Post reporter Carl Bernstein, and Her Way, by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. both provide information and assertions that could be unwelcome as she tries to follow her husband to the White House.
Marital infidelity, of course, is examined and her decision to remain married to Bill Clinton. According to the Post, which obtained copies of the books, Bernstein says both considered divorce at different times for different reasons. Bernstein also reports both Clintons went to great lengths to try to keep his philandering secret and that, later, she was convinced she would be indicted because of Whitewater.
Gerth and Van Natta reportedly take a more in-depth look than Bernstein at her time in the Senate; they suggest she did not read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before voting to authorize war. Her Senate spokesman, Philip Reines, seemed to confirm that, telling the Post via email that she was briefed several times. About these books, Reines said, “Is it possible to be quoted yawning?”
What arrogance.
The Post story runs three pages and can be found here.
Update 5/27 – Bernstein excerpt available
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