[Breitbart] As creator of the modern detective story, Edgar Allan Poe always had a good plot twist up his sleeve. For instance, "The Purloined Letter," from 1844, takes the reader by surprise: The incriminating letter, thought to be expertly hidden, hasn’t been hidden at all‐it’s been hiding in plain sight.THE SIMPLICITY OF A MYSTERY
That is, while the police had been looking high and low for the incriminating letter ‐peeking into walls, pulling up floorboards‐they hadn’t thought simply to look on the suspect’s desk. At the end of the story, the ace private eye explains that the suspect "had deposited the letter immediately beneath the nose of the whole world, by way of best preventing any portion of that world from perceiving it."
One reason the Poe story endures is that we’ve all had moments like that: when we didn’t notice something that was obvious‐precisely because it was obvious.
Virgil always felt that way about the Clinton Global Initiative: It was an obvious conspiracy staring us in the face. Surely we can all remember that giant international influence-peddling system that has mostly faded away, now that Bill and Hillary don’t have much influence to peddle. Yet for years, plutocrats and miscreants would pay millions to cadge some of the Clintons’ celebrity‐and hope, too, of course, that President Hillary Clinton would deliver for them in the future.
It was all happening right before our eyes, on a swanky stage in Manhattan, and yet most reporters and chatterers thought that what the Clintons were doing was great. (And yes, no doubt, plenty was happening offstage, and that was not so great; too bad so few were interested.)