I Didn't Know Hillary Was an Acolyte of Richard Nixon....

...But it appears that way, according to a new book by people who actually worked for the New York Times. I think Punch will be ticked. In the book, we find out Hillary took pages right out of Nixon's dirty tricks book:

In their book about Clinton's rise to power, Her Way, Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at The New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, wrote: "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.

"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."

Gerth told The Hill that he learned of the incident in 2006 when he interviewed a former campaign aide present at the tape playing. He has not revealed the aide's identity. Clinton's campaign has not disputed any facts reported in the final version of his book, which became public this spring, he said.

"It hasn't been challenged," said Gerth. "There hasn't been one fact in the book that's been challenged."

I ask the same question the GOP person did. It's ok to listen to political talk, but not so much to get intel on terrorists Hmmm...Methinks Madame Hill is a wee bit of a hypocrite...but then again, is that really anything new?

However, isn't it amazing no one else is really picking this up. I mean, here we have someone who was on the Watergate hearings, who knows the law or should, monitoring people's calls for simply political reasons. And, of course, we know all about HillRod's hiring of the shady detective known as the Pelican to dig up dirt on political opponents. If this were a Republican, they would be calling for his/her head. However, it is the Empress of the Universe (because she has a va-jay-jay...we think), so we have to dig it up and then hope the main bookstores actually carry this book. The misinformation and smothering of stuff about Clinton is rather Stalinesque, when you really think about it, but then again, when have libs really ever thought something other than what George Soros told them to think?