Posted on 03/26/2008 2:15:10 AM PDT by kingattax
Hillary Clinton has finally admitted that she "misspoke" when claiming that she came "under sniper fire" in Bosnia during a March 1996 visit to U.S. troops enforcing the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. At first, the Clinton campaign maintained that the "misstatement" was limited to one occasion on March 17 when she talked about running across the tarmac "with our heads down." In an interview yesterday with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the senator from New York attributed the mistake to her "sleep-deprived" condition.
A review of the record shows that she provided embellished stories of her visit to Bosnia on at least two previous occasions, while campaigning in Iowa in December and in Texas in February. By the end of the day, Clinton was making a joke of her ordeal: "I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which, you know, for some people is a revelation."
THE FACTS
While Bosnia may have still been considered a "potential war zone" in March 1996, there were no open hostilities. NATO troops were patrolling the area in force, engaged in tasks such as clearing mines and blowing up old ammunition dumps. According to Adrian Pandurevic of Associated Press TV, "there were no armed groups roaming Bosnia, or any significant threat," and "the former front lines had been bulldozed." He described claims of "sniper fire" in and around the Tuzla air base as "simply ridiculous."
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Self-embellishment expresses the desperation of the unaccomplished.
Would love to see her resume someday, LOL
The MSM has abandoned Hillary for Obamamania. The Clinton machine will continue to fight light the cornered rats they are until the exceedingly bitter end. I’m betting Algore will crawl out of the dark at the Dem convention to save his party and the nation. Pass out the barf bags and call the cockroach exterminators.
Hillary Clinton has finally admitted that she “misspoke” when claiming that she came “under sniper fire” in Bosnia during a March 1996....
will she admit to mispeaking about monica/the vast right wing consipiracy/etc. etc??????
Hillary is a congenital liar - William Safire
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From the New York Times January 08, 1996: Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady - a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation - is a congenital liar.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the governor’s wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker. She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.
2. The abuse of presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the FBI and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton’s cronies. Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be ‘’hell to pay’’ if the furious first lady’s desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary’s lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the FBI to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man’s office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary’s lie with jail terms.
Again, the lying was not irrational.
Investigators believe that damning records from the Rose Law Firm, wrongfully kept in Vincent Foster’s White House office, were spirited out in the dead of night and hidden from the law for two years - in Hillary’s closet, in Web Hubbell’s basement before his felony conviction, in the president’s secretary’s personal files - before some were forced out last week.
Why the White House concealment?
For good reason: The records show Hillary Clinton was lying when she denied actively representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison S&L, and indicate she may have conspired with Web Hubbell’s father-in-law to make a sham land deal that cost taxpayers $3 million.
Why the belated release of some of the incriminating evidence? Not because it mysteriously turned up in offices previously searched. Certainly not because Hillary Clinton and her new hang-tough White House counsel want to respond fully to lawful subpoenas.
One reason for the Friday-night dribble of evidence from the White House is the discovery by the FBI of copies of some of those records elsewhere.
When Clinton witnesses are asked about specific items in ‘’lost’’ records - which investigators have - the White House ‘’finds’’ its copy and releases it. By concealing the Madison billing records two days beyond the statute of limitations, Hillary evaded a civil suit by bamboozled bank regulators.
Another reason for recent revelations is the imminent turning of former aides and partners of Hillary against her; they were willing to cover her lying when it advanced their careers, but are inclined to listen to their own lawyers when faced with perjury indictments. Therefore, ask not ‘’Why didn’t she just come clean at the beginning?’’
She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends. No wonder the president is fearful of holding a prime-time press conference.
Having been separately deposed by the independent counsel at least twice, the president and first lady would be well advised to retain separate defense counsel.
Source: William Safire
1996 N.Y. Times News Service
01.08.96
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 8:50 am
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I think American presidential politics have been wallowing in the gutter for years, refer to L.B.J.
The Clintons are just bad liars and enjoy the mud more than most.
Billy Blythe and Miss Hitlery trashed the Democratic party. Trash trashes.
She had best keep her head down because there will be more “incoming”.
Self-embellishment expresses the desperation of the unaccomplished.
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and usually stops when the child approaches adulthuud,
Democrats lie to themselves consistantly, but lieing about something that was witnessed by hundreds of people, including about 150 members of the press, is truly psychotic.
Col David Hunt said last night on O’Reilly’s show that he was in Bosnia and participated in the security preparations for the trip, and it was a totally secure environment! He described how much materiel and how many men were deployed to protect that airbase. Also, she arrived in a C-17A, not a helicopter!
Well it was self-inflicted.
Oh, come on! Just tell us she is mentally ill and get it over with. The American public loves to hear the truth. Now they can vote for her knowing she really wasn’t lying. It is just that in her psycho world, she really did experience all those things in Kosovo. She can run as the first woman, first lesbian, and first psycho president.
Sir Edmund Hillary, Eleanor Roosevelt, tried to "enlist" as a Marine...
The reality is "IF SHE WASN'T MARRIED TO BUBBA, WE'D ALL BE GOING "HILLARY WHO?"
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