Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Hillary Clinton - Eavesdropping used to be OK
Funny how one's opinion changes, isn't it?...
At theHill.com, Alexander Bolton has this:
"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.'
