I read the article, because it's at such variance with the official version. I have no idea how close to reality it is. My gut feeling is that your skepticism is justified.

would probably bring Hillary's political hopes crashing to ground

Here we disagree. To put it crudely: NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!

Let's look at something IMO much more serious, Hillary's prowess at trading commodities.[1] She supposedly makes a cash deposit of under $1,000 into a trading account, and through a series of quite astute trades walks away with about $100,000 (about $323,000 in today's money) in about ten months, all as part-time activity.

As someone summarized it:

   Only four explanations can account for
   these remarkable results.

   1) Blair may have been an exceptionally
   good trader.

   2) Hillary Clinton may have been
   exceptionally lucky.

   3) Blair may have been front-running
   other orders.

   4) Or Blair may have arranged to have a
   broker fraudulently assign trades to
   benefit Clinton's account.

Unless she was one of the greatest "amateur" commodities traders of all time, this was nothing more than a bribe to the Governor and First Lady of Arkansas.

But, like I said, NOBODY GIVES A FUCK. As Wikipedia put it: "There were no official investigations of the trading and Clinton was never charged with any wrongdoing."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_cattle_futures_...