Hilary Clinton took a page out of the Mafia's handbook.
A new book titled "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton," reveals that former political aides kept a "hit list" of all the people who did not support Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign.
The list, comprised of Democrat's, contains then senator John Kerry, West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and Missouri Senator Clair McCaskill, who was an ally of Clinton's.
"Almost six years later, most Clinton aides can still rattle off the names of traitors and the favors that had been done for them, then provide details of just how each of the guilty had gone on to betray the Clintons- as if it all had happened just a few hours before," wrote authors Jonathan Allen from Politico magazine and Amie Parnes, White House correspondent for The Hill. "The data project ensured that the acts of the sinners and saints would never be forgotten."
Exerts of the book, available in February, were published in Politico. One early version of the list ranked Clinton supporters on a scale of one to seven, from the most supportive to the "most treacherous." Kerry, Rockefeller and Kennedy were listed as seven.
McCaskill "got the seat closest to the fire" on the list. Clinton personally tried to get her endorsement, setting up a private lunch date in 2007. But in January 2008, McCaskill became the first female senator to announce her support for Obama.
"Hate is too weak a word to describe the feelings that Hilary's core loyalists still have for McCaskill," the authors wrote in Politico.
According to Allen and Parnes, it would have been out of the ordinary if Clinton did not keep a hit list and that "politicians do it everywhere." Clinton's list is special because of the extent of their political power.
"I wouldn't, of course, call it an enemies list," one source told Allen and Parnes. "I don't want to make her sound like Nixon in a pantsuit."
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