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Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
North Star Writers Group ^ | 31 March 2008 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 04/01/2008 3:56:56 AM PDT by K-oneTexas

Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior

by Dan Calabrese

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.”

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Jerry Zeffman


Present Career As Author
                                 
Books:  Without Honor: The Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon (1995);  

             Hillary’s Pursuit of Power (2006); Memoirs of a Roosevelt Democrat (to be published in February 2008).  

Articles:  Wall Street Journal; Washington Times; Insight Magazine; NewsMax; National Ledger; World Net Daily; New York Post.

Numerous TV and Radio interviews: 1996 to present

 

His Blog/Web Page: http://www.jzeifman.com/

 

Other:

Who is Jerry Zeifman? | No Hillary Clinton

[Snip] Jerry Zeifman was born in 1925 in Mineola, New York. During World War he enlisted in the Navy at age 17 and eventually served as a communications officer on USS Missouri BB63. He later received an A.B. from Harvard, a JD degree from the New York University School of Law.  and became an author and editor of legal publications for Prentice Hall, Inc.

In 196I he was recruited by the House Judiciary Committee  to serve as counsel to its Special Subcommittee on State Taxation of Interstate Commerce.  Until 1972 he also served as chief counsel to its Subcommittee on Civil Rights. 

Starting in 1973 he served as the Chief Counsel to the full Judiciary Committee during its Nixon impeachment proceedings and the confirmations of Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller to serve as Vice Presidents. 

In 1975 he became a Professor of Law at the University of Santa Clara in California. During that period he also served as a counsel to the local office of Rep. Don Edwards (D CA) as well as a consultant to Governor Jay Hammond of Alaska.In 1980 he retired from academia and returned to Washington to do public interest work on behalf of the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a number of AFL-CIO unions. Starting in 1995 he became the author of books on politics and law. [Snip]

 

Former Democratic Chief Counsel: Ted Kennedy Disgraced Himself

Jan 30, 2006 ... Jerry Zeifman is former chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and a lifelong Democrat. He is also author of "Without Honor: Crimes ...

 

 

21 posted on 04/01/2008 11:30:32 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Poundstone

it will never happen.


22 posted on 04/01/2008 11:42:56 AM PDT by blueyon (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: K-oneTexas
“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.”

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Well, I know all of us FReepers are shocked to learn that!

I hope Zeifman has competent body guards....

23 posted on 04/01/2008 12:00:28 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Position Wanted: Expd Rep voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
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To: MtnClimber

And Hillary never learned her lesson.

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That depends. She certainly learned that she could get away with it time and time again and be shielded from scrutiny by the enabling press.


24 posted on 04/01/2008 12:02:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Position Wanted: Expd Rep voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
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To: K-oneTexas

Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro................... So what did Hillary do?

“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. The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.

25 posted on 04/01/2008 12:15:49 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
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To: Ghengis

Bump


26 posted on 04/01/2008 12:18:24 PM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: SkyPilot

Could the woman next to Hillary (on right as looking at photo) be Maggie Williams, her now Presidential Campaign Manager?


27 posted on 04/01/2008 12:32:03 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: SkyPilot

Is that one on the left wearing flannel? I wonder if she and Rodham were intimate.


28 posted on 04/01/2008 12:36:23 PM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: K-oneTexas

Will McCain pursue the honesty factor and this story? Kind of hard to do as you are bent over backwards crossing the aisle.


29 posted on 04/01/2008 12:41:37 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: K-oneTexas
I'm sure the media will be all over this tonight.

</sarcasm>

30 posted on 04/01/2008 12:49:37 PM PDT by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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To: K-oneTexas

I’m shocked! Shocked I say! /s


31 posted on 04/01/2008 12:57:21 PM PDT by Will_Kansas
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To: K-oneTexas
Why [was she fired]?

“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 guy, Zeifman, is no better, because he sat on this information for years.

32 posted on 04/01/2008 1:06:27 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Remember the phrase "He'd sell out his own grandmother..?" Well, Obama sold out his own grandmother.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Came out in his book (1995) and in NY Post article (1996 - see post #16). possibly other places.

The MSM evidently protected her back then also.
33 posted on 04/01/2008 1:19:24 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: K-oneTexas
Came out in his book (1995) and in NY Post article (1996 - see post #16).

I've been at FR since '98. So, for anything pre-'98, it's not likely that I would have seen this book or the article. Being on FR gives me access to things I would otherwise not have access to. I don't think the average person in '95 or '96 would have heard of this Hillary information. I certainly didn't. And, as you said, the MSM does its best to hide (or not publish) information of this type.

34 posted on 04/01/2008 1:52:59 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Remember the phrase "He'd sell out his own grandmother..?" Well, Obama sold out his own grandmother.)
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To: K-oneTexas
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.

I love the gasps of shock and surprise when democRats suddenly discover that Hillary is a liar. Who knew? Why weren't we told?

Welcome to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

35 posted on 04/01/2008 2:07:46 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ("I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the tooth fairy." - John Edwards)
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To: K-oneTexas

When she first ran for senate, I brought this to Sean Hannity’s attention when he had Peggy Noonan on the show. They both said it should come out but neither one did anything about it. Sean sat back and let hitlery get elected senator.


36 posted on 04/01/2008 9:43:13 PM PDT by Samizdat
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