Unearthed audio in which Hillary laughs about rape victim
Nov 26, 2015 4:33:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 4:33:45 GMT
A scoop from the Washington Free Beacon's Alana Goodman exploded on Twitter Sunday night,
raising new questions about the most significant case of Hillary Clinton's relatively brief legal career.
The brewing controversy is, in some respects, ancient history -- involving a mid-80's interview
about a case from 1975. In short, young attorney Hillary Rodham elected to take a case defending
a man accused of brutally raping a 12-year-old girl.
Describing the events almost a decade after they had occurred, Clinton’s struck a casual and complacent attitude
toward her client and the trial for rape of a minor. “I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever
destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” she added with a laugh. Clinton can also be heard laughing at several points
when discussing the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.
townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/06/16/unearthed-audio-hillary-discussed-defending-child-rapist-n1852068
Thanks to police incompetence and her own due diligence, Hillary managed to win a sweet deal for her client --
a man she plainly believed to have raped a young girl. It's one thing to agree to take on an unsavory client and
to fulfill one's professional and ethical obligations. It's another matter to have a strange retrospective chuckle
about benefiting from a turn of events that let a child rapist off the hook.
The purpose of political journalism is to make an impact -- except, apparently,
when said impact may be unhelpful to an overriding editorial point of view.
Goodman's new WFB report contradicts the Newsday article, which asserted
that the victim harbored no ill will toward Hillary Clinton over her role and actions in the case:
Now 52, the victim resides in the same town where she was born. Divorced and living alone,
she blames her troubled life on the attack. She was in prison for check forgery to pay for her
prior addiction to methamphetamines when Newsday interviewed her in 2008. The story says
she harbored no ill will toward Clinton. According to her, that is not the case. “Is this about
that rape of me?” she asked when a Free Beacon reporter knocked on her door and requested
an interview. Declining an interview, she nevertheless expressed deep and abiding hostility
toward the Newsday reporter who spoke to her in 2008—and toward her assailant’s defender,
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton's client ended up serving less than a year in prison on a heavily reduced charge.
If asked [about it], Hillary will presumably attempt to revert to “everyone is entitled to the
best legal defense/legal ethics,” spin and try to keep it there, try to make it a boring story
of two legal professors arguing abstract principles. The more interesting question will be
whether anyone asks how she feels about attacking the credibility of a 12-year-old rape victim —
particularly when, as Hillary later said on the tapes, she believes her client committed the crime.
This story could change the race if this blows up big enough. If Hillary says, “yes, I regret it,”
she’s admitting to an unpardonable sin in the eyes of the feminists, the Left, and honestly,
a lot of Americans. But if she says, “no, I didn’t do anything wrong, I did what every good lawyer would do”
she looks callous and harsh and ruthless, confirming all of the old 1990s stereotypes.