I think Hillary gave up her political career the day she accepted the SOS job. obama let it out that he had asked her to be SOS and she couldn’t turn it down. If she had she’d have been toast immediately. This way she gets to travel the world and go down in history as the first first lady to be SoS.
Yes, something was up for Hillary to accept SOS, and reportedly she was at first reluctant. She was likely still in shock and exhausted and demoralized from the campaign and loss, but made of cold steel ambition, Hillary rose to the bait in typical form.
This fiasco undoes her featured legacy, because she can not escape her direct responsibility, no matter how this is played. It was not Rice and it was not really Obama either. These intellegence officers belong to Hillary.