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April 2015 - Volume 35, Number 4

"Infamous erasures ... "

The Watergate Gap of 18 minutes

Richard Milhous Nixon was hounded out of office because of an 18-minute gap in a tape-recorded conversation that occurred between Richard Haldeman and the President covering the so-called Watergate affair.

During that time-period, two reporters from the Washington Post that were Democratic voters used the power of the press along with a FBI informant, Mark Felt, known as "Deep Throat" to push an agenda to derail the Nixon presidency.

One of my former employees whose previous job was covert operations with the CIA happened to be in Washington, D.C. and went into the Watergate complex garage the morning after the break-in.  His findings suggest that the level of competence by the so-called Watergate burglars was of third-rate operatives.  In fact, we often surmised that the breakdown was staged so that the operatives would be caught.

Nevertheless, the erasure of the tape was the catalyst that resulted in Nixon's resignation.

The Hillary Gap of .. ?? ...

Now we come to the destruction of the private email server of Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC).

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy recently said it may still be technically possible to retrieve thousands of emails to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the private server her lawyer said was wiped clean. Clinton used a private email account and server located in her New York residence to conduct official government business throughout her tenure as the nation's chief diplomat. David Kendall, her lawyer, told Gowdy Friday that the emails are no longer accessible by the server's cleaning.

Multiple federal laws and regulations require all federal employees to provide copies of all their emails and text messages concerning official business that are sent on private email accounts to be copied to their employing agency for preservation.

Moreover, copies of those emails reside on multiple servers throughout the world and it should not be a major problem to retrieve them if Representative Gowdy really wants to do so. Otherwise, it is all "just a game for the public."

HRC's disrespect for the Constitution is long-standing

But is disrespect for the U.S. Constitution and its laws only recently displayed by HRC?

Do you not remember the Rose Law Firm Whitewater records that were missing and were miraculously found in the White House years later as the Clinton Presidency was drawing to a close. Of course, the statute of limitations had run out by the time those records had been found.

Or do you not remember that Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, who supervised the work of HRC on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation stated:

"HRC was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."

Zeifman refused to give a letter of recommendation to HRC upon completion of her work on the committee. In Zeifman's 17 year career, HRC was only one of three people who failed to get a letter of recommendation.

Or the Vince Foster mess?

Or foreign interests making contributions to the Clinton Library or the Clinton Foundations?  Follow the money trail and you will often find why decisions are made.

Or the Benghazi emails?

We could go on and on but you get the point, I hope.

The Problem facing the Democratic Party

Apparently, the press continues to support the candidacy for President of HRC.

It is really sad when the media and powers that be in the Democratic party are so devoid of possible Presidential candidates that they cling to HRC as a front-runner.

The country deserves better ...

But then - 'Tis Only My Opinion!

Fred Richards
March 31, 2015

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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges. [The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.] -- Tacitus, Annals III 27

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