This story really bothers me, and not just because of the corruption. In 2011, the United States all but encouraged rank-and-file Arabs across wide swaths of the Middle East to rise up against their despotic rulers in the so-called "Arab Spring." But any support collapsed when it came to the democracy-(and-woman)-hating tyrants of the Persian Gulf, who provide America with oil and with prime real estate for our military bases. The worse case is Bahrain, whose autocratic monarches have crushed a pro-democracy movement with tear gas and armored personnel carriers bought with an assist from Clinton's U.S. State Department. And it sure looks like the runway for that crackdown was greased with multi-million-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation.