Another NY Times Story That Finds No Wrongdoing Of A Clinton Associate

The New York Times can not let Trump’s descent into the “rigged” election madness go without some sort of counterpoint.  So on the front page today, underneath the headline “Public Rattled As Campaign Turns Coarse” with the subheadline “Talk Of Sexual Abuse Fuels Voters’ Anger” (gee, I wonder whose responsible for all the coarse talk about sexual abuse), it has another obligatory story on Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, as she transitioned from her prior position to the private sector. Once again, the story creates lots of innuendo but shows that Mills followed the rules every step of the way. Yes, I think we all abhor the revolving door between government and the private sector and even Democrats would love mothing more than to find some way to restrict it. But everything the story described was both legal and even questionable activities were cleared by a State Department ethics review.

You have to wonder why the Times continues to write these stories that show no wrongdoing but describe the typical situations when people move from the public sphere to the private sector and sometimes back again. It might all be a bit unseemly, but it is all legal. It would be nice if they focused this kind of scrutiny on the regulators who actually have an incredible potential effect on the companies they currently regulate and then subsequently join. To give them the extreme benefit of the doubt, perhaps the Times is just offering us a preview of what Republicans will be focusing on for the next four years. Somehow, I doubt that is the Times’ intention.