An architect, or asleep at the wheel?

Victor Davis Hanson writes at PJ Media,

Hillary can also play the outsider and run on her record as an outlier secretary of State, as if she kept her finger in the dike as the Obama foreign policy collapsed. That is a stretch, because Clinton was central to the Benghazi fiasco. Her fingerprints are all over the Libyan implosion and failed reset with Vladimir Putin. Her naiveté about Bashar Assad (“reformer”) is infamous. At best she was asleep at the wheel when Obama moved away from Israel and toward Iran; at worst, she was an architect of that transmogrification.

Given the above, Hillary can run on the promise of being our first female president and try to avoid any specifics and as many interviews as possible. Soak the rich like herself, attack Fox and the right-wing press, warn about the Republicans’ war on women and minorities — that’s about the extent of her toolbox. She won’t pledge any new tax or entitlement or budgetary reform, and instead will hope that no one cares, as no one cared during the era of vacuous hope and change. If Obama icon-ed his way to the White House, why cannot she?

Her nomination hinges on a five-hour work day of light campaigning, doing softball interviews with preselected toadies, shaking down big green, gay, and feminist bankrollers, damning right-wing news, shrilly slurring Fox News, and hoping that she can stay on the Obama reservation and not earn a David Petraeus-like indictment from the Obama Justice Department.

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Will Hillary have a "Petraeus moment?"

Did you have an opportunity to listen to the brilliant Rush Limbaugh today? He was wondering if Hillary Clinton would have her "Petraeus moment." That refers to the fact that the White House knew about the affair General Petraeus was having with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. His "moment" came when he refused to follow the administration line on Benghazi, and the White House therefore leaked to the press information about Petraeus having an affair, which destroyed Petraeus's career.

Hillary has been careful not to cross Obama. But don't doubt for a moment that he has some juicy dirt on her.

Politicized justice

Andrew McCarthy writes:

David Petraeus, the former top U.S. military commander and CIA director, is reportedly being permitted by the Obama Justice Department to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in order to end the criminal investigation into his mishandling of highly classified information. It is just another example of Obama’s hyper-politicized administration of justice: One set of rules for government insiders like Petraeus, another set for most Americans, and a third — law as a weapon — for use against Obama’s political detractors and scapegoats.

...Had he not negotiated a plea, Petraeus should have been charged in a multi-count indictment. If he wanted to dispose of the case without a trial that would have further disgraced him, he should have been required to plead guilty to at least one felony count and to have admitted his lies to government officials — misrepresentations that, under the sentencing guidelines that apply to people who don’t get special treatment, instruct judges to impose a term of incarceration.

McCarthy goes on here to detail the criminal acts of Petraeus, then concludes,

General Petraeus served his country with courage and distinction. That record certainly should have weighed in his favor . . . at sentencing. His deliberate and reprehensible criminal conduct, however, cried out for a felony prosecution. That it was treated instead as a trifling misdemeanor is another shameful chapter in the Obama legacy of politicized justice.

Silencing David Petraeus

Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo write:

The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against David H. Petraeus, contending that he provided classified information to a lover while he was director of the C.I.A., officials said, and leaving Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to decide whether to seek an indictment that could send the pre-eminent military officer of his generation to prison.

Will this be the crowning accomplishment of Eric Holder in service to Barack Obama?
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