Boehner sued McDermott in 1998, accusing him of violating his right to privacy for making public a telephone conversation involving Boehner, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other senior Republicans who were discussing ethics allegations against Gingrich.
The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.
The claim that this couple just happened to be behind the Congressman's car, scanning frequencies, hooked in to a taping system, didn't pass the smell test then and it has been virtually ignored by the sycophantic bastard media. The time for paying every damned penny is now at hand ... but as usual the media will keep the facts from the public at large and the full truth of this crap will be bought off by paying Baghdad Jim's bills from bottomless funds provided by men like SOros whose life's work is to destroy this nation. Democrats are a disease ...
Leftist Democrats are indeed a disease. They are ruled by hatred, arrogance, and a corrupted sense of compassion.
That is correct. Also unexplained is how their scanner managed to catch both sides of the conversation. They're on different frequencies.
It is interesting how the intervening seven years have done so little to obscure the fantastic level of corruption that was the Clinton administration. Hill's campaign has a good deal of work to do in this area. This particular incident hits most of the high points - McDermott, in a position of trust as co-chair of the House Ethics Committee, was involved in an active and approved character assassination campaign against Newt Gingrich - approved, that is, by the Clinton White House. The Democrats sent out wiretappers to spy on Gingrich's communications. The Martins were openly Democratic operatives. The law under which this activity is illegal makes it a felony and McDermott actually voted in favor of it, knowing full well that laws didn't apply to Democrats as long as the Reno "Justice" Department had their backs.
And so it did. The "investigation" into the matter was completely stonewalled by McDermott's staff and Reno's chumps just threw their hands up and said "nothing to see here."
Let's put a perspective on this - what Gingrich was doing was against absolutely no law; what McDermott orchestrated was a felony.
But the smear worked, the crime accomplished its object and went unpunished. The media, who were complicit in the anti-Gingrich campaign, tactfully turned their eyes away from a crime as blatant and with even more connections throughout the sitting administration as Watergate was.
In fact, the actual events bore a striking resemblence to those of Watergate with the exception only of the identity of the victims. In terms of pure media bias this incident constitutes one of the mose shameful abdications of responsibility in memory.
This is what we will have to look forward to under a third Clinton administration and there will be absolutely no one to protect the public from this sort of predation. Those who attempt it will be shouted down or shut down. This isn't a prediction, it's a recitation of history.