Then, according to an account by media watchdog Steven Brill, she was the Set-Up Artist, a conniver who teamed up with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg to expose Clinton's alleged misdeeds primarily because she wanted a book deal.

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Nowhere more compellingly, perhaps, than in the case of Sylvia, a conniver and liar bored with all the world, not least with the husband whose very work she cannot bear, she says he's employed by the Imperial Department of Statistics.

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