NYT Author: Hillary’s State Department Was Most ‘Unabashedly Political’ In History [VIDEO]

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Daily Caller:

A New York Times reporter who recently published a book about Hillary Clinton’s State Department says the agency was the most “unabashedly political” it has ever been during her tenure as secretary of state.

 

“One of the things I tried to show in this book is how the State Department has never been so unabashedly political as it was. And there was all sorts of polling, they continued to look at her poll numbers throughout her period as secretary of state,” Mark Landler told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell during an interview on Thursday.

 

In his book, “Alter Egos,” Lander draws on his work as both a White House correspondent and State Department reporter to detail the “fraught and fascinating relationship between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

 

Mitchell, who also covered Clinton’s State Department, agreed that the agency was highly political during the Democratic presidential candidate’s watch.

 

“Those staffs were going at it and she, you know, populated her State Department with political advisors,” Mitchell said.

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Diplomacy by the numbers.