looking over the rosters of Clinton appointees, their spouses, and their interlocking circles of friends, Jacob Weisberg of the New Republic fretted about the “increasingly cozy relationships between press, law, academia and government” that he saw there. “There’s rarely been a time,” he concluded, “when the governing elites in so many fields were made up of such a tight, hermetic and incestuous clique.”14 There was something else Weisberg understood in those early days of the administration. “The Clinton circle has a pronounced class consciousness that tells them they’re not just lucky to be
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