Hillary Spied to Stop Bimbo Eruptions

Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. have a new book out that's giving the GOP some new ammunition against Hillary Clinton. According to the authors, Clinton participated in unlawful taping of cell phone calls in an effort to stomp out Bill's bimbo eruptions:

Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance.

Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate this fall as congressional Democrats and President Bush square off over legislation allowing electronic spying on U.S. soil without a warrant.

Republicans are focusing on an allegation in a recent book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, which suggests Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.

In their book about Clinton’s rise to power, Her Way, Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at The New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, wrote: “Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty. She received memos about the status of various press inquiries; she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack.

“The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill,” Gerth and Van Natta wrote in reference to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. “Bill’s supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions.”

The GOP wasted no time in getting out in front of this:

A GOP official said, “Hillary Clinton’s campaign hypocrisy continues to know no bounds. It is rather unbelievable that Clinton would listen in to conversations being conducted by political opponents, but refuse to allow our intelligence agencies to listen in to conversations being conducted by terrorists as they plot and plan to kill us. Team Clinton can expect to see and hear this over and over again over the course of the next year.”

Jeff Gerth has a history of extraordinary reporting with sources second to none. The Clinton camp has denied the allegations, but only after being pressured by the press for a response. I don't think we've head the last of this one.



Just look at it from the standpoint of the nutroots - they hate the war that Hillary voted for, she's now threatened the use of force against Iran to protect oil supplies (blood for oil?), and now she's accused of spying on Americans. That's the nutroots trifecta!