Clinton emails reveal use of 'platitudes' on union issues

Now-public internal emails from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign detail how the staffers managed the candidate’s policy statements and even policy positions in an effort curry favor with labor leaders. All statements were vetted and scrubbed of anything that the union chiefs might object to.

On at least one issue, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major trade deal negotiated the Obama administration, emails show how the campaign reversed position on the matter to win labor’s support. The emails also detail how the campaign plotted to make it look as though new details about TPP forced her to switch — well before those details were available to the public or the campaign.