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

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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."

How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.

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.

The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.

The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.

"As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer," Zeifman said.

The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. 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.

Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.

Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.

But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States.

http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

[GaryC 7]

And people want that as our president?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh my.

[mox 298]

Frankly I'm shocked that one of our politicians would engage in lying. Shocked I tell you!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Frankly I'm shocked that one of our politicians would engage in lying. Shocked I tell you!

LOL

[no name 1]

Talk about sour grapes. Check out his website. Laughable. He even wrote a book about her!

If this was true, why hasn't it been dug up before? He wrote the book in 2006.

Edited April 2, 2008 by illumine

[GaryC 7]

Talk about sour grapes. Check out his website. Laughable. He even wrote a book about her!

Are you saying Hillary didn't lie?

[no name 1]

Talk about sour grapes. Check out his website. Laughable. He even wrote a book about her!

Are you saying Hillary didn't lie?

No, I will wait for her rebuttal & other media sources to surface.

He very obviously hates her - otherwise why would he write the book he did?

[nane1104 146]

Talk about sour grapes. Check out his website. Laughable. He even wrote a book about her!

Are you saying Hillary didn't lie?

No, I will wait for her rebuttal & other media sources to surface.

He very obviously hates her - otherwise why would he write the book he did?

Maybe because he wants to know you and I to know the truth about her?

I always give those reports a little =/-, but when things like this stuff is adding up more and more, I get pissy.

I don't want to always have to question people's statements and where they are coming from and for me, I totally lost any trust in her.

I used to be pretty neutral between her and Obama, but she really messed it up for me to even consider supporting her.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I'm neither surprised nor do I have doubts that there's much substance to the story. So much for the fully vetted candidate.

[SqdnGuns 21]

[PlatyPius 5]

Billary untrustworthy? Never!

Didn't I mention months ago that I didn't trust her and wouldn't be surprised at anything she's done in her past?

She's an unscrupulous, lying, useless piece of sh!t.

[Peikko 1,575]

Researching the guy, he doesn't come off as particularly credible. However, those who think Hillary is the devil incarnate are sure to lap this up.

[Marc and Olga 0]

*running with my head down ... under SNIPER FIRE!*

now THAT's credible

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Researching the guy, he doesn't come off as particularly credible. However, those who think Hillary is the devil incarnate are sure to lap this up.

*running with my head down ... under SNIPER FIRE!*

now THAT's credible