Posted on 04/02/2008 4:16:30 AM PDT by Renfield
Dan Calabrese’s new column on Hillary Clinton’s past may bring the curtain down on her political future. Calabrese interviewed Jerry Zeifman, the man who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, has tried to tell the story of his former staffer’s behavior during those proceedings for years. Zeifman claims he fired Hillary for unethical behavior and that she conspired to deny Richard Nixon counsel during the hearings:
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.”
This isn’t exactly news. When her lachrymose performance arguably won her New Hampshire, Zeifman tried to tell people about Hillary’s duplicity. Patterico noticed the effort, but few others picked it up. Zeifman wrote at his website:
After hiring Hillary, Doar assigned her to confer with me regarding rules of procedure for the impeachment inquiry. At my first meeting with her I told her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader “Tip” O’Neill, Parliamentarian Lou Deschler and I had previously all agreed that we should rely only on the then existing House Rules, and not advocate any changes. I also quoted Tip O’Neill’s statement that: “To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series.”
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted, and would not advocate, any such rules changes. However, as documented in my personal diary, I soon learned that she had lied. She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them. In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. In so doing she simply ignored the fact that in the committee’s then most recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
I had also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in the committee offices. She later removed the Douglas files without my permission and carried them to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff — where they were no longer accessible to the public.
Hillary had also made other ethical flawed procedural recommendations, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should: not hold any hearings with – or take depositions of — any live witnesses; not conduct any original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon; and should rely solely on documentary evidence compiled by other committees and by the Justice Departments special Watergate prosecutor .
The right to counsel is considered one of the inviolable tenets of our justice system. It doesn’t speak well of ambitious attorneys working on a highly-charged political investigation that she wanted to deny someone the right to an attorney. Small wonder Zeifman questioned her ethics.
If all she did was to propose that as a tactic, that would not make it terribly concerning — but she did much more than just spitball ideas. When informed that public evidence showed a precedent for the right to counsel, she absconded with the files to eliminate the evidence. Does that remind anyone of later incidents in the Clinton narrative, such as the billing records for the Rose Law offices and the 900+ raw FBI files on political opponents of the Clintons?
Hillary’s advocates could accuse Zeifman of conjuring up these stories in order to draw attention to himself in the middle of a presidential campaign. However, Calabrese reports that Zeifman kept diaries during this period, urged on by friends mindful of the historical nature of the Watergate investigation. No one would have known at the time that this 27-year-old barracuda would have any sort of national significance — which makes Zeifman’s testimony all the more compelling.
We know that the Tuzla Dash covered for something much more significant in Hillary’s character. Zeifman shows that all of this forms a pattern of lies, obfuscations, deceit, and treachery. Don’t miss a word on either site.
Update: Not Senate, but the House. I changed the title to Congressional, but Zeifman worked for the House Judiciary Committee.
Hum...a 'recovering prevaricator'.
Both Clinton’s are pathological liars. The Democrat party is filled with liars because they have to lie to cover their real agenda.
Just look at people like Reid and Pelosi. They lie all the time and present it to their MSM enablers to pass the lies alongs as truth. That is why we are in such a mess in this country.
Global warming is a lie, but dummies believe it.
Are Zeifman's diary entries available somewhere? Would like to see what he wrote AT THE TIME about Hillary and her shennanigans.
Also when Hillary was head of Legal Service Corp. under Carter, she spent the entire LSC budget in the period between October and January when Reagan took over.
The GAO requested a referral to the Justice Dept. but it never amounted to anything.
The woman's entire life is littered with episodes like these.
btw... another post of same stuff was on yesterday, but, the moderator wouldn't allow any additional comments for reasons unknown.
And, they go to great lengths in attempts to make it believable...
Check it out... yesterday, April 1, 2008
Four environmental activists chained themselves for several hours to the doors of Bank of America in downtown Boston this morning, creating a ruckus in Copley Square before police unchained them shortly after 11 a.m.
The protesters were accusing the bank of funding coal and energy companies that are among the worst contributers to climate change.
And, to top it off they are completely uninformed or they would know this...
Last year, Bank of America committed more than $20 billion to finance development of “cleaner, renewable sources of energy.
This particular psycho, no doubt a Hildabeast supporter, looped a bicycle lock through a door handle and around her neck.
Will Media Give Story About Hillary's Unethical Past the Legs It Deserves
I think that Chelsea said that she would be better than her Dad; but, hey , that would not take much.
"I believe in doing what's best for the 'greater good'"
In her mind, that is ANYTHING! Lies, treachery or even condoning murder. First time I seen her, her eyes told me, "Here's a lady who is pathologically EVIL!"
Alas, she lies yet how well does she lie? She lies well and for many that’s swell with them. Pity.
The silence you'll hear about this... will surpass the shrugged-shouldered “ho... hum” you recently heard over HRC's awesome, Tusla adventure.
The koolaid drinkers who support her don’t care if she eats babies! They don’t care WHAT she DID or DOES now!
They are lemmings and will follow her to the death, screaming profanities and spewing spittle at anyone who questions her integrity.
Um, actually the same can be said about the Obamaniacs.
She is like her father:
John 8:44
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
He was talking about it yesterday.....
More verb tense trouble with the Clintons?They have been and always will be liars.
Did Zeifman ever vote for Bubba?
Please. Hillary's supporters are perfectly capably of ignoring adverse information. This will have zero impact on her political future. Won't even make Sissy Mathews' toes tingle.
Chelsea appears to be the ONLY paid Hillary campaign spokesperson so she is going to say what her employer tells her to say..... Wonder how much Chelsea is getting paid, and if it comes from their campaign or daddy's global poverty and climate controlling slush fund?
the cops should just taz them until the batteries start to wear down.Any bets that they would unchain themselves and run to Police van on their own?
Whew! I'm sure glad McCain is smarter than that.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
The first time I remember seeing her was the campaign 1992 on the frozen tundra of Iowa and her screeching about 'baking cookies'..... There was NO doubt in my mind she was in control and then old Bill made it official when he said we were getting two for the price of one.... Oh what a price.
It depends on what the meaning of “was” was.
If he lives.
Correction: It was Boortz who was talking about this yesterday. Hopefully, Rush will pick up on it today.....
'Who's replaced Pellicano? Hey, get the guy, who stole Katleen Willey's manuscript. Let's get that Zeifman diary NOW, before the f-ing K*k* thinks about scanning it. Better grab his computer, while you're at it. D*mn it *ssh*l*, get it done NOW!'
Rats! I was really, really hoping the beast would be the nominee! Just think how EASY she would have been to beat!
Now we have to go up against the Magic Walk-on-Water FlimFlam Man who has them all swooning in the aisles with his sugar-coated vacuous rhetoric and his charming Racial Identity.
I have to hand it to the demonrats. They were smart enough to give Dean the boot in ‘04 and now they’re clever enough to dump the beast before she’s too much of a burden.
Rats!
Do you think this could be moved to “breaking news”?
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.
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Clearly a right-wing conspiracy. A Clinton associated with a pattern of LYING??? Certainly this is a set-up.....
He is one of those that probably stands to gain from it. He is a big dummy too.
When he was here looking for some contributions, he was pushing electric cars. Plug and Go. Yep, thats a dummy.
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.”
Then her story of discovering the Polio Vaccine in her father's basement - while listening to the NY Yankees on a 'Crystal Set' - prolly isn't true either, is it.
Yep, FlimFlan guy reminds me so much of a tent revival preacher it’s not even funny....and people were fooled by them and gave them all their money to save souls!! Remember Steve Martin in “Leap of Faith”????
The sad part about the Clinton’s is they will lie when the truth would serve them better.
Hillzilla was born on October 26, 1947. So the Committee's work was completed almost 3 months prior to her 27th birthday. In other words, she was sliming up the place at the tender age of 26.
Segue to the Skanklet, debuted on February 27, 1980 and shoved into the national spotlight last December, just a few weeks shy of her 28th birthday. The apple doesn't fall far from the horse, does it.
I'm not holding my breath.
I heard Neal Boortz interviewing Calabrese yesterday. Like Neal said, “I hope this story grows legs.”
Thought you might like this article, Mitten.
Lies are easier to sell & more profitable than the truth!
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