WAPost: the latest Clinton email story just is NOT a scandal

[Ghost Dog]

8. But, this doesn't involve emails, just the SoS's agenda

and Foundation accounts. Isn't this the heart of it:

Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State

... At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million...

... (T)he frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton...

... The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP's calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties...

http://bigstory.ap.org/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f625

I suppose the defensive argument should be that 1). All top level US politicians, rightly or wrongly, but that's the way it is, expect to receive favors in return for access, and more, and 2). The Foundation spends money efficiently to do good work.