Chris Lacivita is en route to Wellesley College.  And he’s not looking for a date.

In the spring of 1969, John McCain was being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton.  Rudy Giuliani was working in the office of the U.S. Attorney.  Little Johnny Edwards was 14; Barack Obama was 8.  And a certain senior at Wellesley college was putting the final touches on her senior thesis, “‘There Is Only the Fight…’: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.”  She defended her paper before three professors and received an A.  As a result, she was invited to speak at commencement, and shocked the audience with a defense of radical left-wing protest.  The event was covered by LIFE magazine.

Hillary Rodham was a Goldwater Republican when she first met Saul Alinsky, radical leftist organizer, at a Methodist church outing.  He was the godfather of 60’s hippie protest and a scary threat to the “establishment.”  His influence has been cited as the driving force for transforming Rodham into a left-wing Democrat.  Though she did not fully agree with his beliefs, and she ultimately turned down an opportunity to work for him, her written defense of Alinsky has been cited by neo-cons as the “Rosetta Stone” to understanding her true politics.  She’s been called “Alinsky’s daughter” and “a Marxist sympathizer.”  But there was no proof.

That’s because when Bill Clinton took office, Wellesley College passed an odd rule which stipulates, “the senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available for anyone to read — except for those written by either a president or first lady of the United States.”  This rule sealed exactly one document: Hillary’s thesis.  As the earliest books on the Clinton administration were written, the thesis was off-limits.  But not anymore.  Now that she is no longer first lady but merely the front-runner for the democratic nomination, the thesis is once again open for public review.

Suddenly there is a parade of political agents on their way to Wellesley.  One such agent is Chris Lacivita, the head of Progress for America, the guy who swift-boated John Kerry.  When asked about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis, he smiles and says, “there’s no statute of limitations… on what someone did or said 35 years ago…I intend to read it very soon.”