Now We Know Why Bill Kept the Donor List Secret

A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton's foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman's mall project.

Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.

She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.

The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.

Let's see we have the Blagojevich scandal threatening Reid and Rahm and anyone who talked to him. We have Charlie Rangels hits that keep on coming, and the Richardson crack-up today and now this. But whod've thunk it up about the Clintons.

But why didn't this stuff come up in the primaries? Oh that's right, then the foundation donors were secret. Then Obama nominates Hillary to SOS, on the condition that they release the donor list, and cynical minds might say that this is one clever way to maneuver both Hillary and Bill out of the way. Since I have a cynical mind, consider it said.

Caroline Kennedy should not be measuring the drapes in that senate office just yet.