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

[DJ13]

March 31, 2008

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.

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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.”

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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.


Full article at this link-
http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

[TwilightGardener]

1. I think Northstar is a RW outfit. Freepers use it all the time. Probably not a

credible source.

[DearAbby]

4. thanks

I was about to dive into this at the link. Who is Northstar?

[TwilightGardener]

6. I'm not exactly sure who they are, but I remember seeing a lot of

fraudulent RW bullshit with that link on Free Republic. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

[DJ13]

7. "fraudulent RW bullshit with that link on Free Republic."

I looked on their front page, and they dont seem all that right wing to me.

Though I WILL admit they are far from liberal.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Didn't mean to offend you, I just recall that particular website name

being used a lot on FR--and found a lot of it to be obviously slanted and not credible. I wouldn't expect most DUers to recognize it--it's pretty obscure.

[DJ13]

10. Nah, takes more than that to offend me

I found the link on another messageboard posted by a Democrat, so I didnt think the source would be suspect.

[dchill]

28. Well, you gotta admit...

that sounds like the exact type of source that Hillary's supporters would heartily approve of...
Or are you going to insist that we Obamians play fair, no matter what? ;)

[berni_mccoy]

18. Actually, a quick Google search shows fewer than 300 references the site from freeperland

Far fewer than other liberal sites quoted from freerepublic.

That doesn't mean northstar writers isn't RW, but the premise isn't correct.

[rinsd]

25. Yes let's believe a guy who says the Democrats sabotaged the Nixon impeachment....

... as means to cover up Kennedy's crimes.

:eyes:

[berni_mccoy]

27. You obviously refuse to read. I said it doesn't mean it's not a RW site.

For crying out loud, you Hillary supporters have gone out of your minds.

[rinsd]

29. I'm talking about Zeifman.

Guess you're not actually familiar with his work just read his hit on Hillary and happily endorsed it.

On edit: Credit to yibbehobba

that Jerry Zeifman appears to be completely insane. Here are some choice quotes from his website, http://www.jzeifman.com /


On January 22, 2008 I published an article describing a dream I had in which I
“interviewed” Mrs. Roosevelt – who endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic
nomination for President.



A lifelong Democrat, Jerry Zeifman has concluded that Hillary Clinton is ethically
unfit to be either a Senator or President – and if she were to become President, the
last vestiges of the traditional moral authority of the party of Roosevelt, Truman and
Johnson will be destroyed.




Sadly, as a life-long Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary
Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, 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.


As a Connecticut veteran of World War II and a life-long
Democrat, I wholeheartedly support Lieberman. I recall that in
1940 during the Battle of Britain, the "America First" movement
assailed President Roosevelt for lending American destroyers to
Britain. Sadly, the most wealthy and powerful Roosevelt basher
was a Democrat, former Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy.
Prior to that Kennedy had been sacked by FDR for publicly
predicting that Hitler would conquer Britain.


On April 6, a Washington Post Editorial aptly described Mrs. Pelosi’s trip
to Demascus as a “pratfall,” – which the dictionary defines as “a fall in
which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or
humiliating.”

In my view that word was a discrete understatement. As a life-long
Democrat and former congressional chief counsel I regard her conduct
as an unconstitutional abuse of power that warrants her removal by our
Democratic Caucus,

As I previously noted in my article of April 7, she persistently fosters
what Thomas Jefferson denounced as "tyranny by the majority" — and
violates House Rules that give her the duty to maintain order, civility,
and decorum, and to foster "comity" (a word rarely used these days,
meaning "mutual respect"). Her trip to Damascus was more than a
blunder. In denying President Bush’s request as well as purporting
falsely to Speak for Israel it was a usurpation of Presidential power


Oh, by the way, the last two quotes are from articles published in NewsMax, that well-known hangout of life-long Democrats.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5331610#5333042

So by all means continue your defense of right wing garbage :puke:

[berni_mccoy]

30. No, you are taking a fact I posted and claimed I defended RW garbage. You are a low-life.

[rinsd]

31. You're right. You defended a right wing website, not a right wing author.

Credit should go where its due.

Some other articles from Northstar writers group

We have an article about Kwame Kilpatrick bemoaning the lack of coverage his scandal has recieved.

Next article is womena want to vote for Obama because he is good looking.

Social Security is doomed (privitaization)

That;s the first 3 listed articles, followed by their daily dose of Hillary hate.

Here's a young rwer celebrating his 100th syndicated column

http://www.northstarwriters.com/pi100.htm

How precious!

Yeah I know, you just thought impugning this poor site credibility by associating it with free republic was just beyond pale, so you rushed in!

[berni_mccoy]

35. I never defended *any rw garbage* and you are scum. Good bye.

[merh]

33. Here is the fellows own website

http://www.jzeifman.com/

just and FYI

[berni_mccoy]

36. I never said he wasn't RW (in fact, I disclaimed that)

I only said you can't determine a RW site based on the number of links to it from freerepublic. They link DU more frequently than northstar writers.

[merh]

37. True

on all points :hi:

I think he is a nutcase from what little reading I did of his site. :freak:

[DearAbby]

2. Kicking

as I check this link...thank you

[leftofcool]

3. Not credible..........used during the Clinton administration and debunked

[DJ13]

8. used during the Clinton administration and debunked

link?

[blm]

5. In my opinion, she shows common 'perfectionist' traits and would rather lie than admit the truth

of just making a mistake.

They also think they can control the lie.

[PoliticalAmazon]

32. She lied about being under sniper fire because SHE'S A PERFECTIONIST?!?! BWA-HA! n/t

[blm]

34. Perfectionists commonly rely on lies to craft their stories or excuses. Easier than saying

they made a mistake or erred in any way.

[Bucky]

11. After checking out Zeifman's website, I have to conclude that he's a quack

Bit of a loon

[Ian David]

12. How old was she at the time? If she was under 25, I'd give her a "Youthful Indiscretion" pass. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Zeifman is a Republican in Dem clothing. Read where he attacks Ted Kennedey

for attempting to block the Alito SCOTUS nomination:

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/30/124842.shtml

In my view (as a Democrat and former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee), Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has disgraced himself and our party by misusing his position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to achieve self-serving partisan ends.

Kennedy was the architect of an unprecedented tactic: using filibusters to polarize the Senate along party lines thus denying the confirmation of qualified conservative judges. In Bush's first term the Senate Democrats used that tactic successfully against at least 10 nominees for judgeships on circuit courts.

Fortunately, Kennedy has failed in his partisan attempt to deny Judge Alito a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

This occurred largely because Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska formed a non-partisan coalition of seven Democrats and seven Republicans to oppose filibusters, except in extraordinary cases.

No real Democrat would have anything but praise for Kennedy for trying to keep W.'s appointees off the SCOTUS.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Let it sink, Obama fans, let it stink.

:)

[McCamy Taylor]

20. I am a fan of fair journalism, so before it sinks, I am going to expose Zeifman as GOP stooge.

And remind everyone that they should never trust journalists. Just because they say that a source is a Republican strategist that does not mean that the source is not a known alumnus of CREEP (Roger Stone cited in an AP Obama bashing article earlier this year) or some obvious right wing nut job like this guy who has only ever managed to publish a book if it was Clinton bashing.

[McCamy Taylor]

15. For all we know Zeifman was in Nixon's pay in 1973 and was doing dirty tricks back then

while claiming to be "a lifelong Democrat"

:rofl:

Or maybe he got paid in the 1990s by the insurance lobby to write some dirt on Hillary to discredit her. I do not trust him. His main claim to fame---that he keeps milking---is that he caught Hillary doing something nasty in the wood shed. He keeps writing books and trying to peddle books and getting his name in print bad mouthing Hillary. We all know that there are people in the US who will pay big bucks for this.

[nichomachus]

16. I doubt it

During the '90s, the Vast Reich Wing Conspiracy spent umpity-ump billion dollars digging up every piece of dirt on Bill and Hillary -- to the point where they were paying people to make shit up.

And we're just hearing about this now? Puh-leeeze. If there were any truth to it -- even the tiniest shred -- Rush would already have done a six-week marathon on it during the '90s.

There are enough things to pin on Hillary without just making up crap.

[McCamy Taylor]

17. Zeifman was a cottage industry in the 90s. See. I think it was so made up that

no one would bite. Maybe because for them to bite they would have to impugn the honor of a bunch of Democrats much more senior than her. This would not have been Hillary's plan. She was just a lowly intern or assistant. She would have been taking orders from higher ups.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillarys-crocodile-tears-in-connecticut

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Zeifman calls for Pelosi to resign for--get this---bucking George Bush.

I could see a "lifelong Democrat" wanting her out for failing to impeach or failing to defund the war, but Zeifman wants her gone because she criticizes the war and says Americans do not like it and because she went to Syria when Bush told her not to.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/6/151249.shtml?s=lh

[McCamy Taylor]

21. "Democrat:" Zeifman accuses McAuliffe of "mail fraud" for 2002 campaign mailing

McAuliffe sent out 2002 campaign mailing warning that Republicans wanted to privatize social security. Read about how "Democrat" Zeifman believed that he was guilty of "mail fraud".

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_39_18/ai_94129973/pg_1

Can we charge Zeifman with identify fraud for portraying himself as a "Democrat" when he clearly shills for the GOP?

[McCamy Taylor]

22. Zeifman argues that Heavy Petting w/ Monica was worse than Watergate.

That is a Democrat for you! They are much more concerned about hanky-panky in the White House than they are about enemies lists, obstruction of justice, burglaries of opposition political parties, violations of civil liberties. Democrats are such prudes.

Bonus points to Zeifman for playing judge and jury and convicting Clinton of a felony even though I (not a lawyer) took one look at the evidence in this case and recognized that it was a perjury trap and that he would never even face trial in a criminal court as long as he had adequate legal representation. I guess Zeifman is not a very good lawyer. (The entire premise of his argument is that Clinton had to be impeached because he was going to be found guilty of a felony, you see)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_42_14/ai_55710707/pg_1

This is too easy. If anyone else wants to find more article by this "lifelong Democrat" go right ahead.

I think that Zeifman has destroyed his own usefulness to the RNC as a Hillary basher by pursing a career as a RW attack puppy.

[blm]

38. And Clinton supporters think Rezko hurt this nation more than Jackson Stephens.

Go figure.

[McCamy Taylor]

23. Man, I sure hope that KO does not bite this worm.

[rinsd]

24. I see Obama fans are still passing around this rw gasbags's bs.

You geniuses do realize his argument (per his book, now being rehashed by the clueless) is that Hillary & other Dems sabotaged the Nixon impeachment to stop the uncovering of Kennedy crimes don't you?

:eyes:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

26. I think it's worth pointing out...

...that Jerry Zeifman appears to be completely insane. Here are some choice quotes from his website, http://www.jzeifman.com/


On January 22, 2008 I published an article describing a dream I had in which I
“interviewed” Mrs. Roosevelt – who endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic
nomination for President.



A lifelong Democrat, Jerry Zeifman has concluded that Hillary Clinton is ethically
unfit to be either a Senator or President – and if she were to become President, the
last vestiges of the traditional moral authority of the party of Roosevelt, Truman and
Johnson will be destroyed.




Sadly, as a life-long Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary
Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, 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.


As a Connecticut veteran of World War II and a life-long
Democrat, I wholeheartedly support Lieberman. I recall that in
1940 during the Battle of Britain, the "America First" movement
assailed President Roosevelt for lending American destroyers to
Britain. Sadly, the most wealthy and powerful Roosevelt basher
was a Democrat, former Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy.
Prior to that Kennedy had been sacked by FDR for publicly
predicting that Hitler would conquer Britain.


On April 6, a Washington Post Editorial aptly described Mrs. Pelosi’s trip
to Demascus as a “pratfall,” – which the dictionary defines as “a fall in
which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or
humiliating.”

In my view that word was a discrete understatement. As a life-long
Democrat and former congressional chief counsel I regard her conduct
as an unconstitutional abuse of power that warrants her removal by our
Democratic Caucus,

As I previously noted in my article of April 7, she persistently fosters
what Thomas Jefferson denounced as "tyranny by the majority" — and
violates House Rules that give her the duty to maintain order, civility,
and decorum, and to foster "comity" (a word rarely used these days,
meaning "mutual respect"). Her trip to Damascus was more than a
blunder. In denying President Bush’s request as well as purporting
falsely to Speak for Israel it was a usurpation of Presidential power


Oh, by the way, the last two quotes are from articles published in NewsMax, that well-known hangout of life-long Democrats.

[Hart2008]

39. Does this explain Chris Matthews's hostility to Hillary?

Matthews did work as top aide to Tip O'Neil for many years. I'm sure he would have known about this.