Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior

March 31, 2008

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.”

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 Rodman 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.

Source: NorthStar Writers Group

Posted by Hillary · Filed Under Featured Story, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Lies, News, Top Story

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3 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior”

Edgy on April 16th, 2008 8:54 am

Why can’t this be on CNN. Why are we lost in the ‘bitterness’ froth…not only cause its stupid but it is a manufactured story by Hillary. Why can’t real news/facts make the news and circulate again and again and again until we are sick of hearing about it? Shocking that the Clinton scam continues. If it can’t make the TV news, why will no reporter have the guts to ask her about it? Why does everyone tip toe around this lady?
melody on May 5th, 2008 8:04 am

The strategy mentioned in this article remoinds me of two things about Hillary: 1) the hundreds of IRS records of Republican who were on her hit list while she was in the white houe that were mysteriously found in the Clinton’s personal quarters, and, 2) the same strategy of arfguing against the rules and regulations of the DNC that she is currently employing to win this elections.

A snake never truly sheds his/her skin does it?
faith on May 6th, 2008 5:22 am

The Clinton cartel is losing funding from the banksters.The fiat currency is about to collapse and can no longer afford to fund these demon clones.People who sell their souls to the devil must remember there are no refunds. Collection time is coming. Those political puppets and talking heads in MSM who profit from WAR and these rigged electionsmust also be aware that the American public are a lot wiser than they originally assumed. People world wide are familar with the arrogance of monarchies and their pre-planned two tier fake democracy systems. Research will prove democratic societies are only given two options-a bad one and the lesser of two evils.This time is different. WE are entering a new age. Those paranoid cold war dinasaurs are going to experience an extinction very soon. They are old bitter delusinal pyscopaths that know their end is near and want to take us down with them.NOT this time. There are think tanks and secret socitites world wide that are not going to allow their new world order to take place. Their dungeons,under ground bunkers,castles and mansions will be infiltrated and they will be served justice in the truest purest of forms. Rest assured honesty and integrity will prevail.

Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are not out of the race yet.

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