Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Hillary’s History of Deceit

I’m sensing a pattern here. 

As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.

The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

[...]

“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.

Hat tip Hot Air.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0736 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. Good post (although I suppose not too surprising coming from a right-wing/Swift Boating conspirator like you).  I had to dig a little bit to find this at http://www.realclearpolitics.com  I’m sure this topic will take on a higher profile.

    I liked this by Dick Morris: (Hillary’s List of Lies)

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/hi llarys_list_of_lies.html

    Also, it sounds like Bill Clinton went off his meds again:

    The Bill Clinton who met privately with California’s superdelegates at last weekend’s state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to “chill out” over the race between his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Barack Obama.

    In fact, before his speech Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process.

    “It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended,” one superdelegate said.

    According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill at first, charming and making small talk with the 15 or so delegates who gathered in a room behind the convention stage.

    But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how “sorry” she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a “Judas” for backing Obama.

    It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.

    “Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,” a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

    The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media’s unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.

    “It was very, very intense,” said one attendee. “Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns.”

    When he finally wound down, Bill was asked what message he wanted the delegates to take away from the meeting.

    At that point, a much calmer Clinton outlined his message of party unity.

    “It was kind of strange later when he took the stage and told everyone to ‘chill out,’ ” one delegate told us.

    “We couldn’t help but think he was also talking to himself.”

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/ 2008/04/02/BAVNVU2PJ.DTL&type;=printable

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 02, 2008 at 1214 hrs


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