“What could she have known in her line of work that could have wrecked someone big?”
I haven’t followed it closely, but I gather she was an Obama connected former White House staffer turned lobbyist. (Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.) As for what she could have known, anybody at any time can stumble across the skeleton in the closet. All it takes is fear of exposure on the part of somebody with something to hide and you have all the motive you need. As to what, exactly, that need not be anything of consequence. For example; King Henry said to his subordinates about Arch Bishop Thomas Becket, “Oh, please, won’t someone remove this thorn from my side?” He might as well have signed a death warrant. His subordinates killed the Arch Bishop. To which the King said, “I didn’t mean kill him!”
People in powerful positions make things happen without meaning to. One day at the Honeywell plant where I worked, the plant manager said while looking out the window, “I wonder how that plant over there is doing?” Two weeks later his subordinates dropped two heavy accounting ledgers on his desk with everything he could possibly want to know about the plant across the street. He’d made an off-hand comment. He had no desires to actually know the answer.
Your post would be applicable as an unsaid point in many threads of FR. Excellent.
I see your point. Someone so loyal that they will do anything even to the extreme, for the other person/country/company.