The habit of a lifetime
As a 27-year old lawyer, Lady Macbeth Hillary Clinton served on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee during its investigations into impeaching President Nixon. How did her service there end?
She was fired for lies and unethical behavior.
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.”
(Link and emphasis added.)
Be sure to read the whole thing.
Of course, all politicians lie at one time or another, to one degree or another. It's the nature of the beast in democracies, because the public often says "tell me what I want to hear, not what I need to hear," and politicians will do just that to get elected.
But Hillary seems to have made a lifelong career of it, stretching back well before her time in the White House or even Little Rock.
The question of this election may not be "Do we want another Clinton in office?" Instead, maybe we should be asking "Do we want another Nixon?"
(hat tip: Hot Air)
LINKS: See also Classical Values, Power Line, Blue Crab Boulevard, Patterico, Accuracy in Media, Zeifman's own web site, Fausta, and Campaign Standard. Michael Weiss is much more skeptical at Pajamas Media. For more on Hillary, lying, and the meaning of the Tall Tale of Tuzla, read Christopher Hitchens at Slate.
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