{"id":416665,"date":"2010-03-11T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/11\/clinton-widens-her-circle\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:42:41","slug":"clinton-widens-her-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416665","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Widens Her Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clinton Widens Her Circle <\/a>
The Washington Post<\/a> notes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “had one condition that eclipsed all others as she considered Obama’s offer to be secretary of state: She demanded hiring authority at the department. To Team Clinton, this meant every political job — about 200 — from the most senior level to the 20-something researchers. Historically, it is the president who fills these political positions, and no one can recall a Cabinet secretary in recent memory requesting and receiving this kind of hiring latitude.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly, “a little over a year into her tenure as secretary of state, allies and detractors alike say Clinton has made a vigorous effort to widen her circle, wooing and pulling into her orbit the agency’s Foreign Service and civil service officials, many of whom said in interviews that she has brought a new energy to the building.” <\/p>\n

Conyer’s Wife Sentenced to Three Years <\/a>
Monica Conyers, the wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), was sentenced to 37 months in prison for taking bribes, the Detroit News<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n

She “is the only Detroit elected official convicted so far in a long-running corruption investigation that has netted 10 guilty pleas.”<\/p>\n

The Detroit Free Press<\/a> notes that “after months of silence,” the “combative and unpredictable” Conyers “erupted during her sentencing in federal court Wednesday: first, repeatedly asking to withdraw her guilty plea, then exclaiming she wasn’t going to jail for something she didn’t do.”<\/p>\n

However, a plea document Conyers signed last summer said she “waives any right to appeal her conviction or sentence” as long as she was sentenced her to five years or less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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