Hillary under fire

Hillary Clinton's "fib" about braving sniper fire on a 1996 trip to Bosnia was bad enough, said Bill Barol in The Huffington Post, but her real mistake was "stonily" sticking to her story until the YouTube video of the trip emerged. Cl

What happened

Hillary Clinton said she made a “misstatement” when she claimed in a recent speech that she landed under sniper fire on a 1996 trip to Bosnia as first lady. Journalists who had covered the trip had described Clinton’s description as false, as had the comedian Sinbad, who made the trip with Clinton. Clinton dismissed the remark as a “minor blip,” and pointed out that she had described the event correctly in her memoir. (Philadelphia Daily News)

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