A hill too steeped in lies.

• Author: Rosenwasser, Tamzin
• Position: WORDS & IMAGES - Hillary Clinton

AS ONE PUNDIT PUT IT: "It's not fake news that denied Hillary Clinton the presidency, it's the real news we've been listening to for the last 25 years." If Clinton's partisans were doing an inventory of her purported vast accomplishments over the past four decades--accomplishments that were supposed to be her free pass into the White House--there are a number of items they might wish to leave out:

* Her failures, such as flunking the Washington, D.C., bar exam after graduating from Yale Law School.

* Her singular success at turning a $1,000 investment into $100,000 dollars in 10 months, although Robert Bone, at AK Financial Services, who helped her do so, was suspended for three years, and slapped with the largest fine in exchanges history.

* The sordid outrage of her firing seven employees of the U.S. Travel Office, and trying to send an innocent man to prison to justify firing him--all to give the Travel Office to confederates from Arkansas.

* The "completely innocent bureaucratic snafu" in which Craig Livingstone, hired by her as Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security, gained improper access to the secret FBI files of 900 people.

* The demise of HillaryCare, after it was slapped down by Judge Royce Lamberth because illegal secrecy violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

* Whitewater, the shady real estate deal in which five people were jailed for fraud, but Pres. Bill Clinton and his First Lady skated free.

* The sale of lodging in the the Lincoln Bedroom, for an aggregate of $5,400,000.

* The fact that she already had her two terms. (Remember? "If you vote for my husband, you get me. It's a two-for-one blue-plate special.")

* The amazing circumstance that someone who not only was "dead broke, but in debt" in December 2000, after 27 years of living off the taxpayers, now is worth millions. (Of course, they would not have been in debt except for Bill's sexual harassment of women.)

Even if we leave all of this out, let us ponder the warning chiseled in stone on the U.S. Archives building: What Is Past Is Prologue. The FBI investigated Clinton after it came to light during the Benghazi hearings that she kept official State Department government records on a private email server in direct violation of the Federal Records Act, and destroyed 33,000 emails, claiming they were personal. The Department of Justice refused to prosecute her, although they have prosecuted and imprisoned many others for far less. The FBI...