Sanders Sees Clinton Camp Attacks as Sign that 'Something Must Be Working'

[Divernan]

11. When will Bill slip the leash & speak out?

They've kept him amazingly down low and publicly muzzled up to now, and it must be killing him!

The former president has not accompanied his wife on the campaign trail, and has rarely appeared with her in public since she announced her candidacy. In an interview with Town and Country magazine earlier this year, Bill said that his role would primarily be as a “backstage adviser.”

Bill Clinton’s campaigning for his wife backfired in 2008, when in South Carolina he seemed to attribute Barack Obama’s victory in the early primary state to his race. But the former president has a deep knowledge of the ins and outs of campaigning, having won large victories in both 1992 and 1996.

In early May, Bill Clinton’s chief of staff told the Washington Post that he is “not directly engaged in the campaign” but when his advice is asked for “he’s happy to give it.”

Mook also dismissed recent poll numbers that suggest Hillary Clinton’s favorability numbers are slipping. According to a CNN poll published last week, 57% of Americans think the former secretary of state is not trustworthy. “A lot of the public polling is not very reliable,” Mook said. “I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to it.”

http://time.com/3920153/bill-clinton-hillary-campaign-adviser/

Although the Clinton campaign spin is that "he is not directly engaged in the campaign", I'd bet the farm he is micromanaging it from behind the scenes.