Email scandal proves Hillary learned wrong lessons from Nixon and Watergate

This Halloween is the haunting of Hillary, where her final political act could well be a ghostly spectre of her first political act, which happened some 40 years ago. She was just a year out of Yale Law School, when she went to work for House Judiciary Committee. 

Her job? Investigating President Nixon’s involvement in the break in of Democratic National Committee Watergate headquarters just before his 1972 landslide reelection, and the cover-up that followed. 

I was a young West Wing research assistant working on Henry Kissinger’s National Security Council Staff. Hillary was a young lawyer working on the Watergate Committee. The Watergate Scandal and Nixon’s resignation was a political earthquake, and had a formative influence on many of our generation.

The comparisons of Secretary Clinton’s email scandal are eerily similar to Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The evidence against Hillary is contained in her emails with aides. The evidence against Nixon was contained in tapes of his Oval Office meetings with aides. 

The very fact that Hillary had a private email server was discovered almost by accident, in an unrelated investigation into the Benghazi scandal. Similarly, Nixon’s private taping system in the Oval Office was discovered almost by accident, in unrelated investigation into the Watergate break-in.

The FBI has reopened its case against Hillary because they found new evidence while pursuing a separate investigation into the creepy sexual exploits of Anthony Weiner, husband of Hillary’s closest aide. The evidence of Nixon’s relationship to Watergate came from investigations into his staff’s involvement in the cover up. Read More...