Dick Morris continues his crusade against Hillary

New York Post Online Edition: postopinion:

THE indictment of Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign-finance director, David Rosen, may pose a threat to the senator's presidential bid. For now, the federal indictment is focused only on Rosen, but it is not hard to see the process creeping up the campaign food chain to the senator herself. At issue are the expenses the campaign incurred in an August 2000 fund-raiser for Hollywood glitterati. Rosen was indicted for claiming that the event cost $400,000 when, federal prosecutors allege, he knew the actual cost to be $1.1 million. Under federal campaign-finance rules, the Clinton campaign was obliged to pay for 40 percent of the cost of the fund-raiser. So, if the gala cost $400,000, the campaign had to pay only $160,000, but if the price tag was actually $1.1 million, the campaign would have been on the hook for $440,000. By understating the cost of the party, Rosen was, in effect, giving Hillary's campaign an extra $280,000.

I like Dick Morris, he has a joyfully amoral view of politics for the most part. His personal vendetta against Hillary sometimes goes to far in my opinion, although many of the issues he raises, as in this example, seem legitimate. I don't know how innocent or guilty Hillary is in this matter. I would bet though that if this involved Senator Santorum (to give an example) rather than Senator Clinton we would be hearing a lot more about it...