The face Hillary showed to the world was that of an innocent victim.
I later learned that Hillary mounted a counteroffensive to staunch further "bimbo eruptions.'' After checking with her attorney on how far she could go legally, she joined with her sidekick Betsey Wright in a sub-rosa black arts campaign against the mounting list of women claiming sexual involvement with Bill Clinton. They hired a private detective, Jack Palladino, to handle the matter. When the detective ran into resistance, he would visit relatives and former boyfriends and develop compromising material to convince the women to remain silent. For Palladino's services, Hillary and Wright arranged to pay him $100,000 out of federally subsidized campaign funds, initially disguising the payments as "legal fees," monies they later repaid.
-- Gail Sheehy, page 395, DARING: MY PASSAGES.
