If you remember Doug Kmiec from the Clinton impeachment days — a pro-impeachment conservative legal scholar who was on TV constantly — then you might have wondered how his latest gig as President Obama’s ambassador to Malta under Hillary Clinton could possibly end well. It hasn’t — but for what appears to be a variety of reasons. Kmiec talks to TPM in his first interview since Obama accepted his resignation.

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