Mrs. Clinton's Eavesdropping Problem

No doubt her boys from Media Matters will issue a press release (once they get it from her) decrying this as old news.

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.

Of course, expect little coverage of this from the Washington press corps.

Her chief strategist and Blackwater USA rep Mark Penn also had a little eavesdropping problem of his own. I detect a pattern, and therefore, we must have an investigation.

If it were a Republican accused of eavesdropping, it would be 24/7 coverage. Let's see where this goes.

Meanwhile, her Norman Hsu problem isn't quite going away, as reported by Suitably Flip. You just knew this greedy woman wasn't going to willingly part with her shady cash.

UPDATE: More from Allahpundit.