Posted on 04/07/2008 2:40:07 PM PDT by Squidpup
Details of Hillary Clinton's firing from the House Judiciary Committee staff for unethical behavior as she helped prepare articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon have been confirmed by the panel's chief Republican counsel.
Franklin Polk backed up major claims by Jerry Zeifman, the general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee who supervised Clinton's work on the Watergate investigation in 1974, reported columnist Dan Calabrese in a column republished by WND.
Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, called Clinton a "liar" and "an unethical, dishonest lawyer."
He contends Clinton was collaborating with allies of the Kennedys to block revelation of Kennedy-administration activities that made Watergate "look like a day at the beach."
Her brief, Zeifman said, was so fraudulent and ridiculous, she would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.
Polk confirmed Clinton wrote a brief arguing Nixon should not be granted legal counsel due to a lack of precedent. But Clinton deliberately ignored the then-recent case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was allowed to have a lawyer during the impeachment attempt against him in 1970.
Moreover, Zeifman claims Clinton bolstered her fraudulent brief by removing all of the Douglas files from public access and storing them at her office, enabling her to argue as if the case never existed.
Polk confirmed the Clinton memo ignored the Douglas case, but he could not confirm or dispel the claim that Hillary removed the files.
Looking back on the case amid Clinton's fierce battle with Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, Calabrese sees a picture emerging "of a very ambitious young lawyer who was eager to please her political patrons, and was willing to mislead and undermine established committee staff and senior committee members in order to do so."
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The wheels just came off and the wagon is on fire......
..but keep ‘operation chaos’ going so she keeps fighting through the convention.. 1968 here we come..
None of this voters; today’s voters with Obamamania barely have heard of Nixon and 1974.
I hope the Clintons circle the wagons in Denver and get masacred. It’s going to be fun to watch.
None of this voters
None of this matters;
Many people with Obamania in 2008 were among the most loyal Clintoids in 1992.
Any idea why this thing has not gotten legs? None of the MSM seem to be running with the story - seems like someone would, considering they now are all talking about her lack of truthfulness in other matters.
she acts like many of the young lawyers graduating from the diploma mill law schools of today.
In that regard Mz Clinton was a very precient lawyer.
This time the cops will be fight people on the inside of the Convention Hall. And the cops want out...
and I see a cliff up ahead with a big drop to the bottom of the canyon. Can you say: hillleree is done?
The Rats are jumping off the Clinton Garbage Barge. They had better hope and pray she looses or there will be hell to pay.
You will not see this in the MSM. Guaranteed.
Hey Spike, yeah, you with the nose ring, how'd you like to go to Denver?
Oh, I have no doubt that she’ll fight to the bitter end. No matter what.
It’ll be a story told for fifty years.....
As they will say about Obamma..........she was just young.
this is where she pulls the “if I were a man” card. IOW she will say this was her being an agressive lawyer. Of course this is utter nonsense, this is her being an ethically challenged feminist.
The Clintons have single handedly undermined the democratic process because they are both so Narcissistic and power mad that nothing else matters to them.
The MSM will ignore this story. I heard about Hillary wanting to deny Nixon counsel a decade ago. It is an old story. Nobody cares but the likes of us.
“Polk confirmed the Clinton memo ignored the Douglas case, but he could not confirm or dispel the claim that Hillary removed the files.”
Back during the Clinton impeachment we discussed this. At the time I thought this was probably the most scary thing Hillary ever did (demanding Nixon have no legal representation), and we didn’t know she removed the files that confirmed precedent in the Douglas case. Kinda like Sandy Burger...don’t like what’s arhived fact, just remove it....
Scary people, this bunch.
Ya, but will the Republican nominee have the stones to bring this up in a debate or will he continue using the “My friend, the senator from New York” bulls#!t? Let’s see how courageous he is in a debate when it’s all on the table.
The 1960 election was absolutely stolen by Kennedy and his father's mob buddies. They just kept counting the votes in Chicago until the count came out right and Illinois went to Kennedy.
Maybe the RNC should invite Jerry Zeifman to give a major speech at the Rep. convention. He could be the 2008 Zell Miller.
This is an old story. It came out during the Clinton years, but no one cared because Hillary was only the wife of the President and everyone knew that Nixon was guilty as charged, at least that’s what the press told us.
The fact is, Hillary is no more qualified to take over her husband’s old job, than I would be qualified to step in and do my husband’s job. Just because we have been married and talked about his work, doesn’t mean that I could do his job.
Nobody in the MSM, in particular, will EVER say ANYTHING that suggests anyone was EVER less than totally above-board, agenda-less, honest, upstanding, etc., ad nauseam when it comes to the Nixon problem in the 70’s. They never never never will admit there was ANYTHING but the most white-as-the-driven-snow agenda by ANY person associated with the prosecution of Nixon and his administration. NEVER. You’ll NEVER see it. Hillary is safe.
And now, as a reward for keeping their dirty laundry out of the public eye, they, the Kennedy Klan, support B. Hussein Obama Osama.
Maybe the those Kennedy papers will come out yet. I doubt her Heinousness throws away any good dirt.
Why is it that I feel we are the only people in the world who are paying any attention to that revelation? Surely, something that dramatic should be on the evening news, no?
Disgraced Ex-CBS Mary Mapes is still beating her tin pan about the Bush memos.
I would say this story has more verifiable documentation than Memogate ever did but neither Mary nor her MSM cronies will breathe a word.
Maybe, but a really dangerous and stupid move if she did. You can't hide the existence of a prior case. Cases are “reported” in numerous legal publications. Plus both parties would have a complete case file. Plus lots of press coverage would exist. This part doesn't make sense.
She's unelectable.
I suspect the CBS suck-ups will "miss" this story. Eff "60 Minutes" and the bias they rode in on...
This article seems to say that the Beast is power hungry and unethical in her dealings. You think?
Tell the fat lady to start warming up.
Hear this MSM? Nah, won’t even see the light of day.
President Nixon (and the Republican Party with him) was villified and hounded to the grave by the MSM for merely “covering up” the Watergate hotel break-in by re-election operatives which he did not order, nor did he know about it prior to the act. Does ANYONE seriously think that the Clintons, with the complete support and aid of the Democrat Party wouldn’t have “covered up” ANYTHING they wanted to cover up?
President Nixon was thrown under the bus by the uber-righteous country club crowd in the Republican Party.
Monica Lewinsky should still sue Bill Clinton for sexual harrassment.
Because it points to the Kennedys? The MSM may favor Obama, but they have no taste for open-ended investigations that might lead them to places they don't want to go.
Ethics? I don’t think the Clinton’s have even a passing notion of the term.
Hillary Clinton, with chief counsel John Doar (left), bringing impeachment charges against President Nixon before the House Judiciary Committee in 1974
A new generation indeed. Many even hardly recall the Clintons.
Say it ain’t so! Hitlery lies?
Or wonder why this didn’t come out in 2000.
Or 1992.
Or 1974.
Amen!!!!!
LLS
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Watergate is the wet dream of the MSM. They’ll never touch any of this.
Is this part of her vast 35 years of experience?
Twenty years ago, maybe more, this would’ve been a huge story. At minimum, it would’ve disqualified her from ever running for public office, let alone President of the United States. Now? I’ll be surprised if we even hear about it. How sad.
Which fits well with the recently unearthed Hlllary fraud about the woman who was denied treatment at a hospital because of her lack of insurance (which is against federal law) and then died of it. You'd think Hillary would at least know something about health care and law, but it's clear she's stupid as a dead fencepost..
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