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Hillary Rodham's 1974 Watergate "Procedures were Ethically Flawed"
Hillary's Watergate Scandal
Jerry Zeifman sent us the letter below, which is "based largely on material previously published" in his book, "Without Honor: The impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot.''
The book is now out of print. However, a small supply of the limited first edition is still available. Information about it, and how to obtain a copy, may be found at: www.iethical.org/book.htm
Previously published in the NEW YORK POST
August 16. 1999
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
IN December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. 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. 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. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any original investigation of atergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
The recommendations advocated by Hillary were apparently initiated or approved by Yale Law School professor Burke Marshall - in violation of committee and House rules on confidentiality. They were also advocated by her immediate supervisors, Special Counsel John Doar and Senior Associate Special Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, both of whom had worked under Marshall in the Kennedy Justice Department.
It was not until two months after Nixon's resignation that I first learned of still another questionable role of Ms. Rodham. On Sept. 26, 1974, Rep. Charles Wiggins, a Republican member of the committee, wrote to ask Chairman Rodino to look into a troubling set of events. That spring, Wiggins and other committee members had asked "that research should be undertaken so as to furnish a standard against which to test the alleged abusive conduct of Richard Nixon." And, while "no such staff study was made available to the members at any time for their use," Wiggins had just learned that such a study had been conducted - at committee expense - by a team of professors who completed and filed their reports with the impeachment-inquiry staff well in advance of our public hearings.
The report was not made available to members of Congress. But after the impeachment-inquiry staff was disbanded, it was published commercially and sold in book stores. Wiggins wrote that he was "especially troubled by the possibility that information deemed essential by some of the members in their discharge of their responsibilities may have been intentionally suppressed by the staff during the course our investigation."
On Oct. 3, Rodino wrote back: "Hillary Rodham of the impeachment-inquiry staff coordinated the work. ... After the staff received the report it was reviewed by Ms. Rodham, briefly by Mr. Labovitz and Mr. Sack, and by Mr. Doar. The staff did not think the manuscript was useful in its present form."
On the charge of willful suppression, he wrote: "That was not the case ... The staff did not think the material was usable by the committee in its existing form and had not had time to modify it so it would have practical utility for the members of the committee. I was informed and agreed with the judgment."
During my 14-year tenure with the House Judiciary Committee, I had supervisory authority over several hundred staff members. With the exception of Ms. Rodham, Doar and Nussbaum, I recommend all of them for future positions of public and private trust.
Jerry Zeifman is the author of "Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon
and the Crimes of Camelot," which describes the above matters in more detail. (See
www.iethical.org/book.htm)
FYI.
FYI on Hildabeast.
This is old news - can't we just move on for the good of the children?
In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel.
This is another thing the NY press should ask her about but won't.
Thanks for the repost. I'll bet there is a lot more of this stuff out there that the media are sitting on.
"The more you know about Mrs. Clinton..."
BTTT
I understand your sarcasm!
Yes, it's 'old' (to us 'oldtimers') but should not be forgotten, and SHOULD be used by Lazio's allies (even tho HE is focusing on 'positive things') to reinforce Hillary's lack of character -- I hope everyone will "PASS THE WORD!"
Former Watergate Chief: Hillary Urged No Lawyer For Nixon
Drudge Report | October 6, 1998
Jerome Zeifman, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, says that in 1974, Hillary Rodham wrote a memo urging that President Nixon be denied legal counsel in Watergate hearings!
Zeifman made the claim on KIEV radio in Los Angeles on the George Putnum broadcast.
In 1974, Mrs. Clinton was one of 43 lawyers on the House Judiciary Committee's special impeachment inquiry staff.
"She wrote a memo where she found that there was no legal basis for President Nixon to have legal counsel," Zeifman said on Tuesday.
Zeifman charged that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino even agreed with Rodham's recommendation.
"I told Rodino that I would immediately resign from the committee if Hillary's advice was followed," Zeifman explained. "Of course the president deserved to have a lawyer, regardless of what she believed."
A White House spokesman refused comment.
PASS THE WORD!
No doubt about that -- it's time to circumvent 'the media-which-ain't-no-media' and air this without them!
I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and were no longer accessible to the public.
Even back then, the Hillary M.O. was in place.
"I had supervisory authority over several hundred staff members. With the exception of Ms. Rodham, Doar and Nussbaum, I recommend all of them for future positions of public and private trust."
Any further questions, New York voters?
SOMEBODY SEND THIS TO LAZIO!
This is the best insight to the real Mrs. Clinton that I know of -- a former boss that openly says she is devious and not to be trusted.
Thanks, Ed.
Have passed this on to the Lazio Campaign and 'friendly' media. NY needs to know that a former supervisor would not recommend Mrs. Clinton for high office!
THANK YOU !! That's what I was hoping to see!
Have passed this on to the Lazio Campaign and 'friendly' media. NY needs to know that a former supervisor would not recommend Mrs. Clinton for high office!
Looks to me like any office.
Looks to me like any office.
OOPS You're absolutely right!
bump for the early risers
a early ca. ttt 4:28 pt
I just hope this gets more media play and sees more sunshine!
klintoon's ROTC letter and the Colonel's response were buried for years!
So much for the "Bulldog" New York press.
WOW! Are you up early, or still up (late)?
PASS THE WORD!
We know the so-called 'media' isn't going to do anything to harm Mrs. Klintoon.
Call some talkshows and raise it as a campaign item -- tell everyone who will listen -- email this item (this thread OR at the Reagan site) all over the place -- it's up to US!
THIS link is to the books site referenced above -- some good info here, too.
Mrs Clinton "felt" that Nixon should not be permitted a lawyer and that she and other "staff" should conduct the questioning, not our elected officials should conduct the proceedings. She sounds more Mrs Stalin than Mrs Clinton every day.
Absolutely! -- just ONE of the reasons I've called her "Stalinist" for years!
Bumped and printed!
Zeifman made the claim on KIEV radio in Los Angeles on the George Putnum broadcast.
What are the chances of having Mr. Zeifman on other talk shows such as Shawn Hannity?
We need to expose this arrogant evil person for what she is. This is just one more example of her modus operandus.
Interesting you should ask! I've emailed this to Sean, along with that question; tried to get to Lazio when Sean had him on yesterday, but they weren't taking calls/questions during the Lazio interview.
Hmmm, today (Aug. 1st) was the day in 1972 that the 1st article exposing the Wategate scandal broke. (Bernstein-Woodward)
Ah yes, there's no news like old news. ;-)
What is surprising about that, Hillary is Ethically Flawed.
I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and were no longer accessible to the public.
Does anyone now doubt that it has been Hillary, all these 7 long years that has been responsible for the FBI files, the White House firings, the politics of personal destruction, and quite possibly, the piece by piece installation of United Nations policies? When you see how see thought in just this one instance... "Get those files out of public view so I can run impeachment MY way without fear of discovery" ...you begin to see that she is Pathologically Macchiavellian.
I wish The Post would run that again.
"......she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel."
What a sick, cruel mind she has! How many lawyers did Clinton have for his impeachment? At least half a dozen?
Wouldn't it be quite a day for the folks on Hillary's e-mail list to receive this article?
You know, the more information I hear about her early days, the more likely I think it will be that we find out she killed a twin in her mom's womb; extorted lunch money from glasses-wearing youngsters in nursery school; and stole the answers to the 5th grade math test via a burglary.
GREAT IDEA !!
I wish I knew how to do that!
ANYONE ??
FUNNY !!
Yes, I'm convinced that her life has been a constant saga of breaking the rules and covering the tracks.
Yes, I'm convinced that her life has been a constant saga of breaking the rules and covering the tracks.
Bill Clinton's has been. He started by breaking the rules and grabbing at President Kennedy's hand during the Boys Nation trip (and Kennedy looks like, "Who's this jerk?!?") all the way to today, when he breaks 224 years of tradition and criticizes, taunts, and jabs at the opposing party during the opposing party's convention.
His life is one big failure-to-crayon-inside-the-lines.
"Pathologically Macchiavellian"
...has a nice ring to it - wonder if Doctor Raoul can fit THAT on a poster!
The more you know about mrs.clinton, the more you realize that she has always been a disturbed, hatred-filled woman.
I find these socialists are disturbed people who always transfer or project their mental and emotional instabilities to others.
>> With the exception of Ms. Rodham, Doar and Nussbaum, I recommend all of them for future positions of public and private trust.<<
It's obvious that the NY Senate seat isn't considered a "position of public or private trust",or the Dim's surely wouldn'd back her for that position.
Please drop the word ethical, and any deriviates, when posting comments on the Clinton's. It sullies a perfectly good word and flawed says more.
Would you recommend any Dem's for a position of public trust? I wouldn't and a lot Repub's would get the same recommendation.
Right on -- she doesn't hate Jews any more than she hates everyone else!
What makes this dynamite is, of course, that they were both on the same ("get Nixon") side!
"I wish I knew how to do that!"
ME TOO!..............LOL!
Please, someone, if it isn't too big a job, send Zeifman's comments to Hilly's e-mail list.
Bump 'til November! For every pundit and fawning media host....
Hopefully, the word is getting out to NEW YORK VOTERS!
We'll do our part to help educate them! BUMP
BTTT
Glad you bumped this, as I had missed it. This woman was on a mission.
Bump daily 'til november.
How about a full page ad in the New York Times?
BAD (bump a day) 'til November! Character does count!
After forcing myself to endure her speech at the 'rat convention, I am compelled to bump this again!
bttt
A NY BUMP!
GREAT WORK!!!
Come ride the little train that is rollin' down the track to the Junction
Forget about your rights, it is time to relax at the Junction
Take your guns, you bet
'N even more when you get to the Junction, Bolshevik Country!
There's a goal I have creepin' toward you all--incremental, Bolshevik Country!
It is run by us, let us be your gods for the children, Bolshevik Country!
And that's Uncle Joe, he's been movin' kinda slow won't be long now, Bolshevik Country!
Whoooooooo! Whooooooooo! All aboard!
There is no such thing as OLD NEWS when determining the qualifications of our government employees. I will bump this 'til November for any newbies!
xlnt!
Bump a day...after day...'til November...until it is common public knowledge and even Peter Jennings is forced to agree when confronted with this info. (thanks Ed)
Traffic is slow, but for any new lurkers - this info will be bumped 'til November.
Hillary will probably benefit from the newest Demo./Monica smear tactics. This LAWYER(hillary) did not want to allow a President of the US a lawyer of his own! A position of power for someone this ethically flawed - NO!
You might find THIS interesting.
Back from a Demo-break!
Anti-Hitlery, pro-America BUMP!
ditto
Interesting...
A BIG BUMP for the K.P. & freeper friends "I believe Juanita" rally! One New Yorker at a time!
Is anyone out there? I assume most Freepers have read this by now, but please, if you're lurking and want to jump in - it's easy!
If this is new to you, let us know, let others know, too!
Pro-America = Anti-Hillary BUMP!
Just the facts ma'am (not impressed by THE KISS or "emotional appeals") BUMP 'til November!
BUMP-of-the-day! Onward and upward!
It all depends on what the meaning of ethics is. After all hillary anounced that their administration will be the most ethical in the history of mankind. The clinton world is always upside down. To these couple, unethical=ethical, ugly=beautiful, dirty is clean,...... Why do people beleive these thrashy couple?
Another TGIF BUMP!
ACU's Hillary fact of the day - "on February 12,1999, the very day that the Senate failed to remove the president, she had lunch with Harold Ickes to discuss the Senate race." From Hillary Rodham Clinton "What Every American Should Know" by Christian Josi, exec.dir. ACU (to be continued...)
Bump for the Freeper AIR FORCE and the GO HOME HILLARY! aerial billboards!!!!
BUMP 'til November.
Does anyone know what hillary has done specifically(or generally) for education in this country? Does she have an education "plan" for New York? I really would like to know! Hey, tough New York reporters, anyone out there!
Tuesday BUMP! Further proof that 'Legal" is not the same as 'Ethical':
Hillary's Solution: Screw the Children is a thread posted by 'kimber', a David Horowitz piece with further proof of BAD leadership by hill/bill.
BUMP 'til Nov., GO AWAY HILLARY!
Character counts Labor Day BUMP!!!
Back at ya, 'girl!
Ed-for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, BUMP 'til November!
Ethics, NOT! Clintons/Gore
FYI, bump 'til November!
Bump 'til Nov.!
I just e-mailed the article to Lazio's campaign staff. Hope they will try to get the essence of it out to Hillary's supporters.
Maybe a few of her supporters will comprehend it.
Thank you! A list of e-mail addresses for NY papers, radio/TV stations, and columnists/pundits would be useful! We have so many good anti-Hillary threads here at FR, perhaps an e-mail blitz two weeks before the election would help. None of this is secret, or difficult to dig up, proving once again the strange Clinton/media relationship.:C)
Please email this to Lazio - if you haven't already. He may have read this, but this is such dynamite info about how she operates, he may need to read it again!
FYI! Bump 'til November. The mainstream media missed this, too! Of course it wasn't as significant as Rick Lazio 'being mean and invading Hillary's space'. She simply tried to deny the President of the U.S. the right to legal council. 'Smartest lawyer'? 'Smartest woman'? No, most unAmerican, unconstituional, unethical...possibly.
Welcome, FYI!
Bimp 'til election day...the New York Times is feeding Americans leftist pap.
Right on!
Hi Ed!
For any new Freeper-lurkers, FYI! Please read, bump for the benefit of others, and pass it on to friends.:^)
Things have been quiet on the Hillary front nationally...no news is good news, I hope!
Ten more days to send these thugs a message...
One more time.
Just can't resist bringing this up, every so often.
Just can't resist bringing this up, every so often.
Thanks for the memories, Ed. It was a noble fight. Don't you often think about how different the current Senate would if Rudy G. had been able to stay in the race? My idea for a DC Freep poster- "There but for the cancer of Rudy G. sits Hillary in the Senate." Those so-called tough NY reporters are nothing but a pack of commie-Rat-lying-clymer-cowards, IMHO. Keep this thread on ice. (^:
It's shameful how the media continues to treat the 'rats as though they were decent/credible citizens, versus the power-mad anti-American criminals that they are.
Just hope the masses wake up in time to overcome the media snow job and send the 'rats packing.
BUMP for the newbies -- pass the word!
I wonder why it is out of print?
I guess you always get an ethically flawed outcome when the perp is an ethcially challanged person. And Hillary is NOTHING if not ethically challanged.
From her "KILL THE PIGS!" days at Yale, 'til now: all scum, all the time.
Sometimes the reason the press in NY doesn't pick up and print articles like this is simple:
THEY LIKE TO BREATHE!
Too true!
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