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Jerry Zeifman - Hillary as I knew her in 1974 (He fired her from Nixon impeachment committee)
jzeifman.com ^ | February 6, 2008 | Jerry Zeifman

Posted on 04/01/2008 7:16:36 PM PDT by HAL9000

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To: Yardstick
My theory is that she’s so rotten because, paradoxically, she’s a moral zealot. She’s so thoroughly convinced of her own righteousness and so throughly convinced of her opponents’ evilness that she can justify any kind of rotten behavior on her own part. As she sees it, her cause is so just that it would be evil to let traditional notions of morality stand in her way.

I like your analysis. Her inflated sense of moral certitude, and the concomitant ability to rationalize any means to achieve it, are scary. This is the mindset of a "true believer."

41 posted on 04/01/2008 8:49:38 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Addendum: The original sin was to think that you could make yourself to be like God. She seems to be so certain of herself that she has no conscience in terms of how she treats others. The rest of us are just “little people” in comparison to “her goddess.”


42 posted on 04/01/2008 8:56:59 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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Thanks. And of course if you really take this kind of thing to extremes, you wind up justifying the killing of millions of people. The Soviet communists really thought what they were doing was transcendently good and fully morally justified. That's one reason I think religion is good -- when done correctly, it moderates the moral passions. It has a flywheel effect.
43 posted on 04/01/2008 9:02:47 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; juliej; Miss Didi; Liz; Nancee; Marysecretary; theothercheek; ...

Another Hillary ping!

Her complete moral bankruptcy was evident even to other Democratic lawyers at a young age!


44 posted on 04/01/2008 9:05:21 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: ExTexasRedhead; TXRed; MeanWestTexan; SJackson

Ping!


45 posted on 04/01/2008 9:08:44 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: HAL9000

She seems to be the only female in the entire story. I suppose that she can make a claim of sexism as the reason for her firing back then, although it won’t fly here.


46 posted on 04/01/2008 9:12:19 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: HAL9000

It has been obvious for many years that Shrillary is a depraved and despicable opportunist, but I really had no idea she had proved so contemptible from such an early age. I imagined that somehow Arkansas politics and Bill had corrupted her in the ‘80s, but this and similar pieces have made it obvious that she was scum from early on, all of her own doing.


47 posted on 04/01/2008 9:15:26 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's many 3 am phone calls will say that Bill is "ridin' dirty" with a barmaid on the DC Mall)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
What "soul"?

Well, to be fair, there were still some within the Party back in the '70s with higher ethical standards than Her Royal Thighness. Probably a bit of a generation gap at the time.

48 posted on 04/01/2008 9:17:30 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 04/01/2008 9:21:19 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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Skip to comments.(Blast from the past -- an honest Democrat) Jerome M. Zeifman: A Cancer on the Presidency
an impeachment website (orig. from WSJ) ^ | 1996 | Jerome Zeifman

Posted on 06/17/2002 7:45:40 AM PDT by doug from upland

A Cancer on the Presidency
by Jerome M. Zeifman



From: Jerome M. Zeifman, a life-long Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry.

The following is an e-mail message that a group of Democrats are sending to any Democrat or Republican who will listen to reason. Please read this message and pass it on to anyone you have an e-mail address for, regardless of party affiliation.



Sadly, as a life-long Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, I cannot in good conscience vote to re-elect Bill Clinton. Having reached this decision, I am proud to be among those Democrats who have chosen principle over party. Defeating Mr. Clinton would help revive the traditional moral values of the Democratic Party -- as they existed under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Carter.

Having long championed traditional Democratic causes, I simply cannot accept Mr. Clinton's shameless election-year surge to the right as his chosen means of winning a second term. And like most if not all traditional Democrats, I have grave reservations about the Clintons' morality and ethics. In my view there is now probable cause to consider our president and first lady as felons, who are likely to be indicted after the Nov. 5 election.

The misdeeds of the Clinton administration have fallen into a pattern of deceit and corruption that now clearly justifies denying Mr. Clinton a second term in office. To date more than 30 high administration officials have been investigated, fired or forced to resign, and the White House has illegally obtained more than 900 confidential FBI files. Four independent counsels have been appointed, three to investigate cabinet members and one to investigate the president himself.

The White House suppressed documents under subpoena. The Department of Justice, the FBI and the Treasury Department have been politicized and misused to prosecute or investigate innocent staffers of the White House Travel Office. The president's Health Care Task Force operated secretly in gross violation of federal disclosure laws, misled the federal courts and ignored conflict-of-interest laws.

The most recent scandal, involving former Commerce Department official and Democratic Party fund-raiser John Huang (who still has failed to answer a summons issued by District Judge Royce C. Lamberth), is but another hauntingly familiar throwback to my days as an investigator of Watergate crimes and a wide variety of other forms of presidential misconduct. The 1972 Republican Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) was involved in many shady operations that mixed legitimate government funding operations with the illegitimate refunneling of money through backdoor corporate contributions into CREEP coffers.

Now it appears that Mr. Huang, and his former associates from the Indonesian Lippo financial conglomerate, were unlawfully funneling contributions from foreign sources (that had both corporate and political interests in U.S. policy) into Democratic Party coffers. This mixing of U.S. policy with partisan fund-raising -- not to mention the questionable background of some of the institutions and individuals given top clearance by the White House and the DNC -- has produced a cancer on the Clinton presidency painfully reminiscent of the cancer that brought down Nixon.

I am particularly saddened that the Clintons now believe that their unethical and unlawful acts in the pursuit of power will be condoned by all but a few Democrats in the name of party unity. During the Nixon impeachment inquiry it was my view that the core of Nixon's corruption was his belief that in politics his ends justified any means at all.

Ironically, it is now the Clinton administration that has given renewed intensity to the corrupt notion that immoral means can be legitimized in the pursuit of political ends. If Mr. Clinton is re-elected it will be testimony to his success in putting politics before principle. A second Clinton term would polarize the nation even more dangerously than did Richard Nixon's -- this time with Republicans as the new defenders of integrity in government and Democrats as the defenders of a corrupt administration. If Mr. Clinton is defeated, Democrats may find a new strength -- and long remember the folly of marching in lockstep in support of a corrupt president in the name of party unity.

By all accounts Robert Dole is a man of personal integrity. His principles are conservative, and I will continue to oppose them. Yet because I must remain true to my traditional Democratic moral values, I will vote for Mr. Dole.

Jerome M. Zeifman, The Wall Street Journal 10/25/96



Mr. Zeifman was chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry. He is author of Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996).

50 posted on 04/01/2008 9:23:45 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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JEROME ZEIFMAN -— New York Needs You Now

Politics/Elections Opinion Keywords: ZEIFMAN, STOP HITLERY
Source: dfu opinion
Published: 7-7-00 Author: dfu
Posted on 07/08/2000 19:59:40 PDT by doug from upland
I had the great pleasure on two occasions to speak with Jerome Zeifman, lead Democratic counsel during Watergate. On one occasion, on the George Putnam show, I told him that I never really could understand Germany in the 1930s and how an entire nation accepted that black was white and wrong was right. I never understood, that is, until the United States, circa 1992.

Zeifman responded that what I said was really disturbing and I thought he was going to castigate me. Yes, it was disturbing but he agreed with my assessment.

Zeifman and I have exchanged a few e-mails. After Watergate concluded there were two attorneys for whom he would not provide a letter of reference. Those two attorneys were Bernie Nussbaum and Hillary Rodham.

I just sent another e-mail to Mr. Zeifman suggesting that he do a political commercial for Rick Lazio in New York. Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, was shocked and sickened that his once great party would not throw Bill Clinton out of office. He recognized both of the Clintons as likely serious felons.

Let’s hope he responds favorably and that Lazio’s staff sees the wisdom in Zeifman’s help. As an aside, Algore tormentor Katherine Prudhomme (who asked Al the rape question)said that she would do a commercial.

I hope that key people will step up to the plate and tell New Yorkers what they need to know before they vote for their senator.


51 posted on 04/01/2008 9:25:32 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: HAL9000

Interesting, isn’t it, that Ted Kennedy was one of the first big Dems to come out and back Obama. Now according to this he was the one to first place Hillary in places to do political dirty work.

Looks like Hillary was started out on her career of political scorched earth by the Kennedys. My one consolation is that I believe in divine judgement, that the whole wretched crew will someday answer for what they have done to this country.


52 posted on 04/01/2008 9:39:22 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Steely Tom
I've always assumed she was mad at daddy for some reason. I don't have much to go on for this, other than I was a late-teen/early twenty-something at the time, and a lot of young women back then seemed to have very negative feelings toward their fathers.

Same here. It's a daughter-father thing but I have only suspicions to back this up

53 posted on 04/01/2008 9:43:06 PM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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“Same here. It’s a daughter-father thing but I have only suspicions to back this up”

A long time ago I read something about her relationship with her father (she was raised in Park Ridge, IL, a suburb not very far from the one I live in, in the Chicagoland area). Supposedly he was very demanding but withholding of praise, and therefore she was always trying to please him by excelling in school and trying to win his favor and praise which she didn’t get much of. So, you guys are right, it goes back to the father-daughter relationship.


54 posted on 04/01/2008 10:36:06 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Hey Obama, to quote your Preacher man, your "chickens have come home to roost")
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To: dennisw

“Same here. It’s a daughter-father thing but I have only suspicions to back this up”

A long time ago I read something about her relationship with her father (she was raised in Park Ridge, IL, a suburb not very far from the one I live in, in the Chicagoland area). Supposedly he was very demanding but withholding of praise, and therefore she was always trying to please him by excelling in school and trying to win his favor and praise which she didn’t get much of. So, you guys are right, it goes back to the father-daughter relationship.


55 posted on 04/01/2008 10:36:25 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Hey Obama, to quote your Preacher man, your "chickens have come home to roost")
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To: flaglady47

Hillary’s father ——>>>

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18984501/page/4/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18984501/page/3/


56 posted on 04/01/2008 11:11:48 PM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Hillary: "I don't care if it's our wedding day. It's not going to happen."

Bubbah: "There's always the bride's maids..."

Hillary: "Mmm...true!"

57 posted on 04/02/2008 2:41:16 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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58 posted on 04/02/2008 3:18:55 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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"The one who is truly without ethics here is Ted Kennedy."

His own brothers always said so.

59 posted on 04/02/2008 4:34:51 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #12 - Hillary Lied to Zeifman, Rigged Nixon Impeachment Protocols
NewsMax and other sources | 12-30-02 | dfu; Limbacher

Posted on 12/30/2002 10:04:30 PM PST by doug from upland

#1 - FJB
#2 - Children in Hospital
#3 - She Throws Coffee in Marine's Face
#4 - Dissing Health Care Execs Who Offered Solution
#5 - Hillary, the Commies, and the Black Panthers
#6 - Defiling the White House Christmas Tree
#7 - Hillary Calls the Police Murderers
#8 - How Did She Get Her Name?
#9 - Sister Frigidaire
#10 - Troopers and Secret Service as Servants
#11 - Beep, Beep, Get Out of My #$%&@&$ Way

NOTE: the survival of our Republic is threatened by two things -- fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Bush is leading the fight against the terrorists. It is up to those of us who know the real Hillary Clinton to lead the fight against her. We must shine the light of truth on this dangerous woman so that all Americans may know the real Hillary.

#12 in the continuing series.

FROM NEWSMAX

The House Judiciary Committee’s former chief counsel, Jerome Zeifman, waited 22 years to unleash his bombshell, which would reveal that the deck was stacked against Nixon by none other than the wife of the man who now faces a similar fate. It was Hillary Clinton who rigged the proceedings against the 37th president, as Zeifman revealed in a little-noticed passage of his 1996 book, "Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot." Zeifman quoted his own 1974 diary, which reports that just four days after Nixon resigned "John Labovitz came to my office and apologized for having participated to some extent to conceal from me the work that was being done. Some months ago, he and Hillary lied intentionally to me and told me there were no drafts of proposed rules of procedure for the [Nixon] impeachment inquiry."

COMPLETE ARTICLE:

How Hillary Nuked Nixon

Carl Limbacher
October 1, 1998

"This is the most fun we've had since Watergate." -- Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee, during the Iran-Contra investigation.
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- On July 12, Charles McCarry's New York Times op-ed piece was titled, "Bill Clinton's John Dean?" It was a rumination on the similarities between Linda Tripp and the White House counsel who turned on Richard Nixon, thereby setting Watergate's wheels in motion.

As intriguing as the comparison was, the real eye-opener of McCarry's piece came toward the end, when he quoted Henry Ruth, Leon Jaworski's Watergate deputy prosecutor. McCarry recalled Ruth's memo, sent to Jaworski just 10 days after supposed "smoking gun" evidence forced Nixon into ignoble early retirement, which cited 10 areas of Watergate then under criminal investigation.

Ruth informed Jaworski: "None of these matters at the moment rises to the level of our ability to prove even a probable criminal violation by Mr. Nixon."

McCarry followed the Ruth quote with his own observation that the ultimate historical irony here was that Richard Nixon, whom historians have told us for 24 years had been caught dead to rights, may not have needed a pardon after all.

What about the June 23, 1972, "smoking gun" tape where Nixon ordered the CIA to block the FBI's Watergate investigation? Or where Nixon discussed the possibility of paying hush money to the Watergate burglars? Or the so-called enemies list kept by the Nixon White House on reporters hostile to the administration? Apparently, prosecutor Ruth couldn't find any evidence regarding these transgressions that he thought would stand up in court.

The tapes, however, sounded damning enough. And even Nixon, who at first thought those recordings would be exculpatory, realized after he reviewed them that his goose was cooked – politically, if not legally. In July 1974, as the House Judiciary Committee was reviewing the tapes and earmarking Nixon's supposed crimes, two young staffers were assigned by the committee's chief counsel, Jerome Zeifman, to research the protocols for impeachment. John Labovitz and another young lawyer, just 26 years old with the ink barely dry on her Yale law degree, began the arduous task of poring over constitutional archives. Labovitz's partner was Hillary Diane Rodham.

And research done by Labovitz and Rodham became the roadmap for three articles of impeachment reported out of the House Judiciary Committee that promptly destroyed any remaining congressional support for Nixon. Before the full House vote on the articles of impeachment, three senior Republican senators apprised Nixon of the handwriting on the wall. The Nixon presidency ended on Aug. 8, 1974.

The House Judiciary Committee’s former chief counsel, Jerome Zeifman, waited 22 years to unleash his bombshell, which would reveal that the deck was stacked against Nixon by none other than the wife of the man who now faces a similar fate. It was Hillary Clinton who rigged the proceedings against the 37th president, as Zeifman revealed in a little-noticed passage of his 1996 book, "Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot."

Zeifman quoted his own 1974 diary, which reports that just four days after Nixon resigned "John Labovitz came to my office and apologized for having participated to some extent to conceal from me the work that was being done. Some months ago, he and Hillary lied intentionally to me and told me there were no drafts of proposed rules of procedure for the [Nixon] impeachment inquiry."

The New York Daily News noticed this earthquake confession, and sought Zeifman's elaboration on the historic subterfuge perpetrated by our current first lady. The Daily News reported:

If the United States was going to topple its own president, rules were important, Zeifman told us Friday. "Suppose we were going to have the World Series next week and suddenly one of the team managers says, 'We want to change the rules to two strikes and you're out.'"

That's basically what [Hillary] Clinton and Labovitz did, Zeifman claims. In other words, they drew up new impeachment protocols to replace those in existence since Jefferson's day -- and then denied it. Congress -- and the country -- would have been completely polarized if it had seemed Nixon was being railroaded out of office with new rules, Zeifman said. (New York Daily News – Feb.12, 1996)

Nixon was likely guilty of the Watergate cover-up. But Ruth's memo to Jaworski shows there really wasn’t any "smoking gun" evidence of it.

And that's likely why Hillary Diane Rodham, who regarded Nixon as "evil," according to Clinton biographer David Maraniss, had to discard impeachment rules in place for two centuries in order to nail her quarry.

Now that America faces its second impeachment crisis in as many generations, it's worth remembering how the rules were bent by partisans committed to destroying a presidency -- when the target was Richard Nixon. And how the media looked the other way when it happened.

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I have had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Zeifman on two or three occasions. He told me that Hillary Rodham tried to convince the committee to deny legal counsel to Nixon for impeachment. Had the committee agreed to that, Zeifman was prepared to resign. On the George Putnam Show, he said on two occasions that both Clintons were likely felons. This was a life-long Democrat who broke ranks and recognized what the Clintons were doing to his party.

Zeifman also told me a story that I don't know think has seen print in any major paper. Of all the people who worked on the Nixon impeachment, there were only two whom were denied a referral by Zeifman -- Bernie Nussbaum and Hillary Rodham.

60 posted on 04/02/2008 7:11:46 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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