Timothy Birdnow

In an article at American Thinker Silvio Canto Jr. makes the case that Hillary didn't learn anything from Nixon and Watergate. According to Canto:

"What we do know is that this is not going away. Hillary advanced through her political career thinking if she could always destroy the evidence she and the rest of Clinton Inc. could never be held responsible for their actions.

That was the wrong lesson to learn from Watergate. The right lesson was don’t do the crime in the first place.

The ghost of Watergate still roams the corridors of power. This won’t be a Happy Halloween for Hillary.

Bill Clinton did not see the "blue dress" coming. Hillary Clinton did not see the emails or Wikiles."

End excerpt.

Well, Hillary didn't work for the Watergate Committee for altruistic reasons:

http://www.eohistory.info/2013/hillaryHistory.htm


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.

"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.


End excerpt.

See more from Zeifman on Hillary here.

This has been confirmed by Franklin Polk, who worked with Zeifman on the committee.

Notice how Hillary stole the files that proved William O. Douglas was given counsel when he was impeached; this was reminiscent of the Sandy Berger theft of secure documents to protect the Clintons. And remember that Hillary's Chief of Staff Margaret Williams stole documents from Vince Foster's office immediately after Foster's death. And the FBI found Hillary's fingerprints on hundreds of pages of Rose Law Firm documents under subpeona - documents that were found in the White HOuse. Hillary testified she didn't know how they got there.

According to Discover the Networks, Hillary did the following:

* Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc.
* Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.
* Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.
* Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster's documents in the Rose Law Firm.
* Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.
* Ordered the removal of documents from Vince Foster's office and told aides to lie about their removal of documents.
* Obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.
* Lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
* Lied to investigators about her involvement in the Castle Grande land flip con.
* Ordered the use of the FBI to discredit Travel Office employees.
* Lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees.
* A Federal judge orders a trial on July 25, 1994 to determine if Hillary Clinton's heath care task force illegally operated in secret.
* The White House finally releases more than 2,000 documents on June 25, 1996, relating to the travel office firings, originally requested two years prior by congressional investigators.

Zeifman argues that Hillary was an operative for the Kennedy family, keeping in daily contact with their representatives and working to prevent the Camelot gang from being exposed as lawbreakers. The Kennedy family certainly got away with murder, so the lessons of Watergate is to get ahead of any possible damaging leak. Hillary learned her lessons well.

By the way, I found a genealogical table for Hillary's ancestry. She claims to have Native American ancestors in her autobiography and that turns out to be another Clinton lie.

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