Clinton Was Scared Biden Was Usurping Her Power
Clinton’s Inner Circle At The State Department Was Worried That Vice President Joe Biden Was Usurping Her Role In Foreign Policy. IAN C. KELLY: “I talked to him off the record, and he admitted that he gets a ‘steady drumbeat’ of requests from producers to find out ‘if Hillary is holding her own’ in the interagency battles, and particlary if there’s infighting between her and the White House. He said what specifcally prompted his q at the briefing on whether the VP was beginning to usurp S’s role in foreign policy was Gibb’s announcement Tuesday that the VP was taking lead in Iraq policy (below). I emphasized to him that the Sec is very engaged and involved in Iraq policy, noting she was on a conference call today with Chris Hill. Think much of this is the perennial Washington story of who’s up and who’s down, but it still bears careful watch.” (Ian C. Kelly, Email To Jacob J. Sullivan, 7/2/09; State Department Release, 6/30/15, p. 4)
