Hillary Was Fired From Congressional Job for Unethical Behavior.
Posted on April 1, 2008
Is this Curtains for Hillary’s political future? We’ve all kinda built a calouse up on the uncountable lies she’s been caught in. Jerry Zeifman, the man who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, may just be adding the garnish to her plate. How about a little unethical behavior for a cherry on top?
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.â€
Wow! Thats some harsh fightin words. Will they stick? I mean, it isn’t news that she is a liar. Well, what exactly was it she did? Say goodbye to any true-hearted sincere liberal support. You say you wanna change the Constitution, well ya know….
How about trying to deny the right to counsel for Nixon?
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.â€
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 .
Yikes! This is a big deal, and hopefully the media will not ignore it. If this gets legs, Hillary is done, in my opinion. Its pretty damning stuff and will be fun to watch her spin on it.
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?
Also see Rhymes With Right
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Reports of MzBill’s transcendent unfitness for any ethical proceeding whatsoever date back to pre-2004. She exhibits a self-aggrandizing dementia akin to clinical socio-pathology. We only wonder why these verifiable historical charges are re-surfacing just now.
If Hill would do this to the President of the United States what would she do to a local yocal like me? Rush Limbaugh is doing this country a disgraceful disservice trying to get The ‘Hill’ elected. Shame on you Rush. You used to be a real man! You’ve become the new Jerry Springer and your show has become a Bush League soap opera!
Rush knows exactly what he’s doing. Hillary would never survive in a general election cycle. He’s got the right idea.
Before “disowning” Rush you should listen to him rather than to what the drive-by-media say about him. They make every effort to always be incorrect.
Operation Chaos is not about getting Hil-liar elected, it is actually about electing McCain by getting the Democrats to destroy themselves. By keeping Hil-liar in the primary race, it creates chaos within the Dhimmicrat party and it ensures that she exposes BHO for who he really is, something that McCain has already made clear he will not do, nor will the Republican party.
Don’t look for the mainstream media to cover this anytime soon. At least not until they want to finally finish Hillary off for Barry O.
I’m all for equality, but I’ve never heard of anyone being denied healthcare, either because of his or her inability to pay (as Hillary told audiences last week), much less for being gay, as per her current claims. A leopard never changes her spots. Jerry Zeifman fired Hillary for unethical practices during the Watergate Investigation. Why was Hillary fired? “Because she was a liar,†Zeifman said in a recent interview. “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.â€
Mr. Zeifman’s story is important. Not only does it go to character, it goes to a lifelong pattern of lying and obfuscation. And, it took Zeifman twelve years to get it aired. After Watergate, Zeifman could not recommend Hillary for any subsequent position of public or private trust, nor furnish her with a letter of recommendation. Again, Hillary Clinton is a bold-faced liar, who will stop at nothing. Should anyone doubt Mr. Zeifman’s veracity regarding the Clintons: http://theseedsof9-11.com
The Clintons corrupted the soul of the Democratic Party. -Henry Ruth, lead Watergate courtroom prosecutor.
Hopefully Hillbillary will drop out of the prseidental race?