What does Hillary Clinton think about civil liberties and eavesdropping on private phone conversations? In August, she voted against a law that would have expanded the government's ability to monitor, without a warrant, phone conversations in the US for national security purposes. Taking her cue from the American Civil Liberties Union, Clinton said recently, “And when it comes to a regular program of searching for information that touches the privacy of ordinary Americans, those programs need to be monitored and reviewed as set out by Congress in cooperation with the judiciary...That is the essence of the compact we have with each other and with our government, and we cannot ignore it.”
Sounds nice, rather judicious even.
A new book entitled Her Way, written by New York Times reporters Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth, covers Clinton's controversial rise to power. It spends a generous amount of time focusing on her activities in the early nineties, as she sought to prevent the seemingly endless stream of "bimbo eruptions" from gaining traction. Here's an excerpt from the book:
“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."
So, listening in to phone conversations between possible terrorists plotting to murder Americans: bad. Spying on political opponents: politically expedient, even necessary.
Expect to hear more about this in the months ahead.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping-2007-10-16.html
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