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
Hillarys history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther ... and goes
much deeper ... than anyone realizes.
Jerry
Zeeman, 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 Kennedys
chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over,
Zeeman 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 Zeifmans 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 couldnt 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 Kennedys 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 ONeill, 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 Committees 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.
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