Good find. With several papers reporting it at the time of the briefing itself (April), a mere retraction by the New York Times later (in November) shouldn’t be enough to discredit the report that the claim was made. The quotations from the other papers indicate that the upper “State Department” estimate of the missing was 500,000, “raising fears that they may have been killed by Serbian forces”. Also that number was more consistent with Clinton’s comparison with the “Holocaust” (and in stark contrast with the confirmed evidence of only a few thousand).
Thanks. When the NY Times retracts something damaging to their leash-holders I get suspicious.