Decius wrote:
] Does Hilton actually have the background that he says he has?
] I haven't been able to locate any evidence of that.

Stanley Hilton was counsel and an "aide" to Dole in 1981. I don't think he was "chief of staff", if such a position even officially existed for Dole at that time.

Hilton wrote a tell-all memoir about Dole, which the Tampa Tribune called "a vicious biography, a sloppy hatchet job." It said Hilton was "a former Dole aide who actually left on good terms, needed a good editor and didn't get one." It said the book was written in "a sloppy fingerpaint-by-numbers writing style that goes nowhere."

In general, Hilton appears to have spent the last ten-plus years in rant mode, and everyone else has spent those same years either mocking him or totally ignoring him.

On September 10, 2004, Hilton was interviewed on something called the Alex Jones Radio Show. A claimed transcript is online in two parts at

Part One
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2262

and

Part Two
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2261

(This is the same transcript that's available at rense.com.)

You can find a copy of his complaint at

http://911review.org/Wiki/StanleyHiltonLawsuit.shtml

It is claimed (by ariannaonline.com) that this complaint is online at

https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?14519

but this URL is a restricted access page.

After a cursory review of this document, I am appalled (though not shocked) to find that this man actually once passed a bar examination in the United States.

There was a University Wire story on Stanley Hilton on September 22, 2004. That article says his lawsuit was filed on June 3, 2002, which contradicts the citation above. They were actually served in June 2004. This latest serving may reflect the latest amendment to his complaint; there was a one-day flurry of cable news coverage in 2002 when Hilton filed his original suit. The U-Wire story reports that in his interview on the 10th, he "personally admitted that the possibility of the American government slowly becoming a military state through a phantom or intentional terrorist strike was the subject of his senior thesis at the University of Chicago."

In 1995, Hilton "was charged with felony elder abuse, later reduced to a misdemeanor" in regard to his (lack of) treatment for his Alzheimer-suffering mother. The police reports for the case against him are quite bizarre. I can't believe this guy still has a license to practice law in the state of California.

RE: Interview with Stanley Hilton