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Steven Brill: Hillary Fabricated 9/11 Records
Newsmax.com ^ | 4-20-2003 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 04/20/2003 12:25:36 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton had her staff fabricate records of meetings and phone calls to familles of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to burnish her image as New York's leading politician on 9/11 issues, the author of a new book on how U.S. officials dealt with the aftermath of the attacks charged Sunday.

"I think [Sen. Clinton] has begun every statement she's ever made in her life about the families of the victims by saying she's met innumerable hours with the families of the victims," Steven Brill, author of the new book "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era," told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.

To support Mrs. Clinton's claims of 9/11 victim service for his book, Brill said her staff tried to persuade him that she worked overtime to help, providing "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story."

But, says the author, "None of it turned out to be true... They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened."

Brill, who defended the Clintons throughout the Monica Lewinsky impeachment scandal, said that efforts to mislead him began after the former first lady got word he was writing his 9/11 book. She actually sought him out at the Ground Zero ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the attacks. "I hear you want to talk to me about your book," he recalls her saying.

"We had this discussion which she insisted be off-the-record," Brill said. But he added, "She did follow up in one non-off-the-record conversation, urging me that the person responsible for aid to New York City was not [Sen.] Chuck Schumer but Hillary Clinton."

Brill said he was astonished that Clinton would go to such lengths to fabricate a phony record of 9/11 service "all in the cause, actually, of shooting down Chuck Schumer getting a bunch of pages in a book."

"It sort of takes your breath away when you think about it," he told Malzberg.

The author detailed the saga of one family in particular, the Cartiers, who lost a relative in the Twin Towers collapse.

"This family had tried repeatedly to get Hillary Clinton to meet with them," Brill said. "And always the staff said 'Write up a memo. We don't meet with any families unless they write to us first and tell us what they want to meet about.'"

"They said to me - the Cartiers, and these are not, you know, people who are political - that the only time families can meet with Hillary Clinton is if it's at a press conference."

Meanwhile, said Brill, Sen. Schumer took time out on a Sunday to meet with the Cartiers - "no reporters, no cameras, no nothing."

The former publisher of "Brill's Content" magazine said that then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Schumer worked to give the Cartier family access to Ground Zero and to Fresh Kills, the Staten Island recovery site, so they could search for their relative's remains.

The former Clinton defender also cast doubt on the authenticity of an account offered by Chelsea Clinton, who told reporters after the attacks that she was so close the Twin Towers collapse that she feared for her life.

"There are people on Schumer's staff who say that Chelsea kept moving south [towards Ground Zero] the more the press kept reporting that [Schumer's daughter Jessica] really was at Stuyvesant High School," just five blocks away from Ground Zero, he said.

Of Sen. Clinton's attempts to garner praise for helping 9/11 victims, Brill said, "What stunned me is that one person would try to steal away the credit from the other person, especially when everything I was hearing from the families is that Schumer" had helped far more.


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KEYWORDS: 911; brill; clinton; fraud; hillary; hillaryclinton; records; schumer; thecow
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To: Paul Atreides

101 posted on 04/20/2003 5:13:21 PM PDT by Bars4Bill (The 'Rat party is a crime organization.)
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Fresh Kills, the Staten Island recovery site

What the heck! WHo gave it a name like that!!??

102 posted on 04/20/2003 5:20:02 PM PDT by It's me
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To: Im Your Huckleberry
She's done in New York.

Her Presidential run will never happen. She doesn't stand a chance with the voters of New York, again, let alone the entire country

She'll be re-elected with the largest margin ever. Hillary is a known liar, she even lied about her name, said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, even though she was born before he became famous. Slick is a pathological liar. Lying and getting away with it is a plus to the mainstream media and the liberal elite.

Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly, is a regular guest on Batchelor and Alexander. He insists that Hillary's going to waltz into the Democrat primary at the very last second and save the day. He also thinks she would beat Dubya, and to that end, he's delusional.

103 posted on 04/20/2003 6:28:53 PM PDT by randita
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To: All
this is the big one......shock waves are being sent everywhere, Brill's attack signals the end of hildebeast's protection by her CIA/mob assets...she has been cut free......

My guess is this is the beginning of the end, because this is one of her own...

I suggest that this has happened because she got on the armed services committee.

The clintons, the CIA and the mob play hardball, but NO ONE, NO ONE, screws with the DOD.

Not Presidents, not kings, and not little self absorbed senators.

Getting on that committee crossed the line, she became a threat to the defense department, and these fellows deal in death, and if they think you challange the internal defenses of the United States of America, you go away.

The Department of Defense will put up with a lot, but it's like a religous organization passed down from generation to generation since the WWII....they let America and it's people pretty much do what they want, even the Mob. But don't kid yourself.

They take the defense of this country very series, and they have sent old crsuty a message, and it's:

You are never going to be our Commander in Chief

and since WWII if they don't want you, you're gone.

Cross them, and you're gone, whether you're a president or a pawn.

104 posted on 04/20/2003 6:31:17 PM PDT by The Wizard (Saddamocrats are enemies of America)
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To: Asclepius
bump - and make sure everyone knows!!!
105 posted on 04/20/2003 10:52:18 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: It's me
The DUTCH !
106 posted on 04/20/2003 10:55:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Paul Atreides

Yeah, maybe the rumor is true, but then again, it *is* coming from Brill and this could all be more of the same old Clintonian "float a nasty rumor that we can easily disprove" trick to garner the sympathy vote.

As in, there is no way that Schumer is going to publicly affirm this rumor, and very good odds that he will denounce the rumor.

If Schumer denounces this rumor at a crucial time in next year's Presidential election, then Hillary will gain an enormous 9/11 sympathy vote popularity boost.

Consider motive (re: this rumor). There are only two possible outcomes, too. Either this rumor is true or false. Now, Conservatives have NO NEED for this rumor to be true, as we already have enough dirt on Hillary; moreover, Hillary's national popularity is no current threat to GWB.

Thus, we stand to gain NOTHING if this rumor is true.

On the other hand, if this rumor is angrily denounced by Schumer and the media during a critical time in next year's election cycle, then Hillary and the Democrats stand to gain a TREMENDOUS sympathy backlash boost.

Thus, they stand to gain one way and can't lose even if it goes the other way. It's a classic "heads I win, tails you lose" proposition.

...And it's coming from Brill, a known Clinton fan.

In the immortal words of Star Wars: "It's a trap!"

107 posted on 04/20/2003 11:00:16 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
she'll just order votes from enough dead people to win. 22 posted on 04/20/2003 12:47 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (America...love it or leave it. Canada is due north-

Yep, you got that right!!

108 posted on 04/20/2003 11:02:18 PM PDT by timestax
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Great tag line you have "(Republicans for Kucinich) ", it is a joke? Isn't it???

The truth about DENNIS= http://www.kucinich.com "A Flip-Flopping Liberal Extremist".

109 posted on 04/21/2003 2:03:39 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: Las Vegas Dave
If her lips are moving, she's lieing.
110 posted on 04/21/2003 2:12:14 AM PDT by John Lenin (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,)
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To: Las Vegas Dave
Um, what do YOU think? :)
111 posted on 04/21/2003 6:19:27 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Clinton Legacy = 16-acre hole in the ground in lower Manhattan)
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To: muggs
ping
112 posted on 04/21/2003 8:26:12 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
ping
113 posted on 04/22/2003 1:31:39 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Asclepius
If Brill can wake up, anyone can.
114 posted on 04/22/2003 1:37:38 PM PDT by MamaLucci
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To: Semper Paratus
Wouldn't it be cool if the Marines "found" some love letters from Hillary to Saddam?

Hey, I can dream can't I?
115 posted on 04/22/2003 1:49:38 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: Paul Atreides
I hope for the sake of his family, Brill's insurance is paid up.
116 posted on 04/22/2003 1:55:40 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
I would also stay off of airplanes and out of Arkansas for a while.
117 posted on 04/22/2003 1:59:58 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
So lets see....
Just how many scandals has Hillary been involved in and she wasn't even elected.

Whitewater
Tyson Insider Trading
Filegate
Webster Hubbell overbilling
TravelGate
PardonGate
Vince Foster Murder
Failure to turn over records to Congress
Theft and non-reporting of White House gifts
And now Falsification of 9/11 contacts

And I'm sure I probably left out a dozen or so...

118 posted on 04/22/2003 2:17:20 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: Paul Atreides; Freedom'sWorthIt
 Q ERTY8DECAPITATIONBUMP
These 9/11 fabrications by the "congenital liar" are consistent with, and an extension of the hillary clinton and FUNERALS lies.

 

THE INTERMINABLE clintons
It's time to take out the trash...
A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...
NEW AUDIO! Hear the Bill Bennett (PARDONGATE) epilogue .
 
 
hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin
 
THE UNSTATED MESSAGE OF THE POWELL EVIDENCE
 
Another mistaken 'conceptzia'
WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER CLINTON
(INDEED, IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO SURVIVE THE FIRST ONE,)
 
WAS AL QAEDA THE TARGET OF A TAKEOVER BY IRAQ?
 
Utter-Failure clintons Concoct Left-Wing-Radio Scheme FIG LEAF
Flower Children Fall for the 2 Self-Evident Thugs & Opportunists Yet Again
(Liberals have always had problems figuring out causation)
 
 
THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992
 
How to get rid of the clintons in 3 easy steps
 
the logic of pathologic self-interest
 
Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office update
 

"Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era."

Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonight
U.S. News & World Report (Washington Whispers) |
March 11, 2003 | Paul Bedard

 

 

 

I'll bet that Mr. Bedard is a member of "one of those groups" so "obsessed" with voting in -- and having access to -- the clintons that they--ooops-- failed to notice the obvious danger of the lovely couple.
 
Thanx for 9/11, Paul...

"ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS"


119 posted on 04/23/2003 8:38:36 AM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: hillary's_fat_a**
"I bet the Queen just lies in her bed at night, jealous as all hell, how Saddam *could* put any of his subjects in prison for any trumped-up reason, terminate their lives at will, and have them fawn allegiance and adoration at public gatherings. Dream on, Shillary, dream on!"

They tried that. Believe me, they tried .
120 posted on 04/23/2003 8:52:39 AM PDT by billhilly
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