The revelations carry into Clinton’s present post. The aide who, according to the book and other sources,
pushed the darkest anti-Obama rumors most aggressively was Sidney Blumenthal, whom Clinton last year attempted to make her official speechwriter. The book casts her state department chief of staff
Cheryl Mills as another hardliner whose most sensitive job was her role on a “campaign within a campaign”
devoted to Bill Clinton’s sex life. She reportedly “handled delicate matters where attorney-client privilege might prove useful.”
Daschle “considered Hillary an icy prima donna; her husband … a narcissist on an epic scale; the dynamic between the couple, bizarre; their treatment of their friends, unforgivably manipulative and disloyal,” the authors write.