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From the Ain’t a Dimes Worth of Difference Department

October 16th, 2007 by Steve

The Hill is reporting that Republicans plan to go after Hillary for eavesdropping during the period of time they were doing damage control for her husband’s peccadillos.

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.[…]

“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.”

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.”

The way I see it, there is more than enough hypocrisy to go around.  If the allegations are correct, then Hillary was clearly in the wrong.  But for Republicans to attack her on an issue on which they’ve been leading since 9/11 is even more bizarre.

Posted in Civil Liberties, Bad Democrats, Bad Republicans

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