I'm sure readers have been following the unfolding of the Benghazi scandal (among others) in Washington over the past few days. Personally, there's so much smoke in DC right now I'm thinking it's a sign, not of a fire, but of a deliberate smoke screen, intended to divert attention while the united Left (both Democratic and Republican) tries to ram through immigration reform while everyone's distracted. That would be a national catastrophe, so we need to be very much on our guard.
Be that as it may, reader T. D. sent me a link to this 2008 article, reminding me that anything Hillary Clinton says about Benghazi should be taken with more than a few pinches of salt.
The former general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary during the Watergate investigation, says her history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
. . .
'A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Zeifman 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.'
There's more at the link.
Two idioms come to mind:
1. A leopard can't change its spots.
2. Forewarned is forearmed.
Trusting Hillary Clinton's testimony about Benghazi strikes me as being just about as wise as trusting Richard Nixon's testimony about Watergate.
Peter
5 comments:
Concur with all, and you're NOT the first one to notice the immigration camel's nose...
Re. Immigration - "never let a crisis go to waste" I believe was the phrase?
I was struck yesterday by how much the gal from the IRS sounds like Hillery. Not just the words, but the phrasing, intonation, pacing, everything. I was listening, not watching, so I don't know if they had similar body language.
LittleRed1
In full agreement with you, Peter, but wish to make one point. Vis-a-vis the Watergate break-in, I believe the public version, coming from the left, is myth. I base that on the writings of G. Gordon Liddy, and the book Silent Coup, by Mssrs. Getlin and Colodny. While writting the book they approched Liddy and showed him what they had found - the DNC break in had been the brainchild of John Dean, Counsel to the President, who later blamed it on others in the Admin., becoming a darling of the left and saving his own skin in the process. An interesting read. Nixon had many faults, but plotting the burglery at the Watergate may not have been one of them!
Hillary is untrustworthy, now as then. Anyone who believes her about ANYTHING is in serious trouble.
I wish I was around back then. I could have told him before he hired her.
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