When the Associated Press released its story six days ago about the email evidence that Hillary Clinton granted special access to a request from her son-in-law (who works for a hedge fund) to have the State Department help out a politically connected investor, the major media were far too concerned with Donald Trump’s call for a moratorium on Muslims entering the United States to pay much attention.  The usual suspects noted the evidence that influence-peddling seems to have been initiated, but crickets were the order of the day in the media most Americans see. To recap, the AP found: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors asked Chelsea Clinton's husband for help setting up such contacts, according to the most recently released Clinton emails. The lobbying effort on behalf of Neptune...(Read Full Post)