Did Hillary Clinton Work for Chuck Colson?

Just before Thanksgiving, Bob Novak reported that "a Clinton agent was spreading the word that the Clinton campaign had scandalous information about Obama," in an article entitled, Hillary's Nixonian Tactics Against Obama." At the beginning of December on Face the Nation, "Howard Wolfson, Sen. Hillary Clinton's spokesman, accused Obama of running a 'slush fund';" see Hillary's Slush-Fund Attack. Now Bill Shaheen, Clinton's national co-chairman and one of her most trusted advisers, resigned after pushing stories to the Washington Post about Obama's high school drug use.

You'll remember that the Washington Post was used by another Clinton aide who had to resign after spreading stories about Obama's religious background in a widely condemned article that received front page treatment titled, Foes Use Obama's Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him. After Matt Drudge, the Washington Post appears to be Hillary's favorite place to spread rumor and innuendo, and the Post appears only too happy to oblige.

Just who is Hillary Clinton? We know that she was a proud Goldwater Girl, working beyond the call of duty for the far-right Republican candidate for president in 1960 and 1964. In 1965 she was elected president of the Wellesley Young Republicans. Hillary attended the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami, and this is where things get interesting. During this time, she was supposedly a supporter of Eugene McCarthy too.

Chuck Colson, Nixon's political architect, and the teacher of dirty tricks to the likes of Lee Atwater, George W. Bush and Karl Rove, would have been familiar with Hillary Clinton at the time, as he was from the Boston area. One of his and Nixon's favored weapons was trying to bootstrap candidates who could split the opposition. McCarthy's campaign did just that, knocking Lyndon Johnson out of the race and opening up the field so that Nixon could win. Colson and Nixon loved to send out young Republicans to pose as Democrats in order to sabotage them and gather intelligence.

Hillary went on to graduate from law school at Bush's alma mater, Yale. Judging from her campaign's behavior in the last few weeks, she has obviously learned a lot from Nixon. The question is, did she work for Chuck Colson, and if she did, for how long?