An Inside Look at the Fall of Richard Holbrooke

“When it comes to Washington backbiting, even the dead don’t get to rest in peace. Among the revelations to emerge from the latest trove of Hillary Clinton emails are jokes and gibes at the expense of Richard Holbrooke, the legendary diplomat who died on the job of a torn aorta (literally a broken heart) in December 2010 as he sought to contain the chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Politico reports.

“The emails, released by the State Department in response to a request by the House special committee on Benghazi, tend to confirm the sad narrative of Holbrooke’s last years, when he found himself cut out of senior-level discussions and his powers curtailed by the Obama White House. He was also made the butt of jokes by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta over what even Holbrooke’s friends admit was his lifelong, almost desperate, ambition to be secretary of state.”