Clinton Campaign: Don't Blame Us, We're Incompetent

Senator Clinton's staff have claimed that Norman Hsu's history of business problems and criminal convictions didn't show up on a background check because they didn't use Hsu's two middle names in the search.

So you're telling me that if I have judgments against me under the name Gabriel R. Malor, they won't show up when someone does a background check for Gabriel Malor? In the words of Cartman, "Sweeeeet."

A background check shouldn't have been the only thing causing Democrats to look a little closer. A man comes out of no-where and raises a million dollars? Did no one wonder who he was?

There is this, too:

Irvine, Calif., businessman Jack Cassidy told the FBI that he sent at least three e-mails to a Clinton campaign official on the West Coast this summer, specifically raising concerns that Hsu was engaged in a risky investment scheme and was using Hillary Clinton's name "in vain" to solicit people for his business proposition, according to a person directly familiar with the matter.

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Clinton spokesman Wolfson said the campaign did an initial public records search in January when Hsu began raising money. The inquiries from Cassidy this summer prompted the campaign to do a second vetting of Hsu, which turned up nothing derogatory.

Clinton had two shots (at least) to find out about Hsu. Don't blame her, though, it's just that her staff is incompetent.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 11:13 AM

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