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Livingstone was the perfect [http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html patsy] for what happened next. Big, stupid, partisan, willing to make a fool of himself and loyal to the end, Livingstone was nearly the embodiment of the perfect Clinton surrogate.

Livingstone was the perfect [http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,6984,00.html patsy] for what happened next. Big, stupid, partisan, willing to make a fool of himself and loyal to the end, Livingstone was nearly the embodiment of the perfect Clinton surrogate.

   

   

That the files were illegally procured there is no doubt. That a [[DNC]] operative illegally downloaded copies to a flashdrive there is no question. That the files contained half-truths and innuendos, similar to the abuse the country suffered only two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is a near certainty;  that innocent lives and careers were affected for the coming decades is unquestionable. It was intended as the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. Any White House staffers who served Presidents Reagan and Papa Bush who may think of running for Congress one day had to brace themselves for whatever lies and innuendo may be thrown at them out of an FBI background check.<ref>http://fas.org/irp/congress/1996_rpt/fbirep.htm </ref>

That the files were illegally procured there is no doubt. That a [[DNC]] operative illegally downloaded copies to a flashdrive there is no question. That the files contained half-truths and innuendos, similar to the abuse the country suffered only two years earlier in the [[Clarence_Thomas#Appointment_to_the_United_States_Supreme_Court|Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill]] hearings there is a near certainty;  that innocent lives and careers were affected for the coming decades is unquestionable. It was intended as the political equivalent of the [[Katyn massacre]]-a decapitation of the future leadership of the Republican party. Any White House staffers who served Presidents Reagan and Papa Bush who may think of running for Congress one day had to brace themselves for whatever lies and innuendo may be thrown at them publicly out of an FBI background check.<ref>http://fas.org/irp/congress/1996_rpt/fbirep.htm </ref>

In the end of coarse, no one was ever held accountable for the abuse and lives destroyed. But all fingers inside the White House and outside pointed at the new First Lady who was rapidly getting a national reputation for the use of [[dirty tricks]]ters, private investigators, and outright thugs to harass, discredit, intimidate, and blackmail her perceived political enemies or those who stood in the way of her raw ambition for power.

In the end of coarse, no one was ever held accountable for the abuse and lives destroyed. But all fingers inside the White House and outside pointed at the new First Lady who was rapidly getting a national reputation for the use of [[dirty tricks]]ters, private investigators, and outright thugs to harass, discredit, intimidate, and blackmail her perceived political enemies or those who stood in the way of her raw ambition for power.