Michiko Kakutani

This review of Hillary´s book is really incredible. You really don´t even know where to begin. One of my readers offers up this letter to letters@nytimes.com.

Dear Editor,

Lining the cat-litter pan with the latest bilge from Michiko Kakutani would be an insult to my cat.

In the first four (short) paragraphs, Ms. Kakutani manages to blame the victims, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, twice for an orchestrated and wholly undeserved campaign of lies and evasions, directed at, not by, them.

She goes on to blame Mrs. Clinton for "skim[ming] over details of matters like Whitewater and 'travelgate'". Given the tone of this less-than-balanced review, one can be left with little doubt that should Mrs. Clinton have addressed these issues in sufficient detail for Ms. Kakutani, she would then have accused Mrs. Clinton of protesting too much.

It is a fact, Kauktani nothwithstanding, that Whitewater (a $40,000 investment) was investigated by the RTC, and by no less than three independent counsels, at an expense far above 50 million dollars, with no findings against the Clintons. "Travelgate" contained even less, if it's possible to imagine such a thing, liability or wrongdoing on their part. The Clintons were thus unfairly called--more than the two times Kakutani specifically mentions, I might add--to respond to ridiculous and unfounded charges.

There, Ms. Kakutani; there's the detail you called for.