Time: Mon Oct 28 22:27:01 1996
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Subject: DEMOCRAT WHO SOUGHT NIXON IMPEACHMENT SAYS CLINTONS ARE FELONS
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>CHIEF COUNSEL TO HOUSE COMMITTEE THAT
>VOTED ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST
>RICHARD NIXON SAYS THAT CLINTONS ARE FELONS
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>A Cancer on the Presidency
>By JEROME M. ZEIFMAN
>
>Sadly, as a life-long Democrat and chief
>counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at
>the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, I
>cannot in good conscience vote to re-elect Bill
>Clinton. Having reached this decision, I am
>proud to be among those Democrats who
>have chosen principle over party. Defeating
>Mr. Clinton would help revive the traditional
>moral values of the Democratic Party -- as
>they existed under Presidents Roosevelt,
>Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Carter.
>
>Having long championed traditional
>Democratic causes, I simply cannot
>accept Mr. Clinton's shameless election-year
>surge to the right as his chosen means of
>winning a second term. And like most if not
>all traditional Democrats, I have grave
>reservations about the Clintons' morality and
>ethics. In my view there is now probable
>cause to consider our president and first lady
>as felons, who are likely to be indicted after
>the Nov. 5 election.
>
>The misdeeds of the Clinton administration
>have fallen into a pattern of deceit and
>corruption that now clearly justifies denying
>Mr. Clinton a second term in office. To date
>more than 30 high administration officials
>have been investigated, fired or forced to
>resign, and the White House has illegally
>obtained more than 900 confidential FBI files.
>Four independent counsels have been
>appointed, three to investigate cabinet
>members and one to investigate the president
>himself.
>
>The White House suppressed documents
>under subpoena. The Department of
>Justice, the FBI and the Treasury Department
>have been politicized and misused to
>prosecute or investigate innocent staffers of
>the White House Travel Office. The president's
>Health Care Task Force operated secretly in
>gross violation of federal disclosure laws,
>misled the federal courts and ignored
>conflict-of-interest laws.
>
>The most recent scandal, involving former
>Commerce Department official and
>Democratic Party fund-raiser John Huang
>(who still has failed to answer a summons
>issued by District Judge Royce C. Lamberth),
>is but another hauntingly familiar throwback
>to my days as an investigator of Watergate
>crimes and a wide variety of other forms of
>presidential misconduct. The 1972 Republican
>Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)
>was involved in many shady operations that
>mixed legitimate government funding
>operations with the illegitimate refunneling of
>money through backdoor corporate
>contributions into CREEP coffers.
>
>Now it appears that Mr. Huang, and his former
>associates from the Indonesian Lippo
>financial conglomerate, were unlawfully
>funneling contributions from foreign sources
>(that had both corporate and political
>interests in U.S. policy) into Democratic Party
>coffers. This mixing of U.S. policy with
>partisan fund-raising -- not to mention the
>questionable background of some of the
>institutions and individuals given top
>clearance by the White House and the DNC --
>has produced a cancer on the Clinton
>presidency painfully reminiscent of the cancer
>that brought down Nixon.
>
>I am particularly saddened that the Clintons
>now believe that their unethical and unlawful
>acts in the pursuit of power will be condoned
>by all but a few Democrats in the name of
>party unity. During the Nixon impeachment
>inquiry it was my view that the core of Nixon's
>corruption was his belief that in politics his
>ends justified any means at all.
>
>Ironically, it is now the Clinton administration
>that has given renewed intensity to the
>corrupt notion that immoral means can be
>legitimized in the pursuit of political ends. If
>Mr. Clinton is re-elected it will be testimony to
>his success in putting politics before principle.
>A second Clinton term would polarize the
>nation even more dangerously than did
>Richard Nixon's -- this time with Republicans
>as the new defenders of integrity in
>government and Democrats as the defenders
>of a corrupt administration. If Mr. Clinton is
>defeated, Democrats may find a new
>strength -- and long remember the folly of
>marching in lockstep in support of a corrupt
>president in the name of party unity.
>
>By all accounts Robert Dole is a man of
>personal integrity. His principles are
>conservative, and I will continue to oppose
>them. Yet because I must remain true to my
>traditional Democratic moral values, I
>will vote for Mr. Dole.
>
>Mr. Zeifman was chief counsel to the House
>Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon
>impeachment inquiry. He is author of "Without
>Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon
>and the Crimes of Camelot" (Thunder's
>Mouth Press, 1996).
>
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>WALL STREET JOURNAL
>October 25, 1996
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