New CBS Video Contradicts Clinton Again

Admits She Misspoke About 1996 Bosnia Trip; Mentioned It In Iowa, Texas And Also Last Week

(CBS/AP)  Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she made a mistake in claiming that she came under hostile fire in Bosnia 12 years ago, as rival Barack Obama's campaign continued to challenge her credibility.

In a recent speech and interviews, the New York senator described a harrowing scene in Tuzla, Bosnia, in which she and her daughter, Chelsea, had to run for cover as soon as they landed for a visit in 1996. But video footage of the day showed a peaceful reception in which a young girl greeted the first lady on the tarmac.

Clinton told reporters in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that she erred in describing the scene, which she now realizes after talking with aides and others.

"So I made a mistake," she said. "That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation."

She claimed she misspoke and was sleep deprived, but CBS News has found several times in the past few months Senator Clinton used the Bosnia trip to try to show her international experience, reports Sharyl Attkisson. Clinton did so in Iowa in December, Texas in February and also last week.

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Watch Attkisson's report, complete with new video from the Tusla tarmac.

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After CBS News video showed what really happened when she landed and greeted officials, Senator Clinton maintained there were risks but explained to the Philadelphia Daily News why she was seen on the Bosnia tarmac greeting a young child if it was really so dangerous.

"I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this eight-year-old girl and I said, 'Well, I, I can't, I can't rush by her, I've got to at least greet her,'' Clinton said. "So I greeted her, I took her stuff and I left. Now that's my memory of it."

Once again her memory doesn't match CBS News videotape, Attkisson reports. She and her daughter Chelsea lingered on the tarmac to greet U.S. military officials, took photos, and then walked to the armored vehicle where she did, eventually, duck and enter.

The more important issue, Clinton said, is whether she would be a better commander-in-chief than Obama or Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Clinton and Obama are competing for votes in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

Clinton's aides had tried to control the Bosnia flap Monday, saying the New York senator "misspoke."

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Couric & Co.: Read Attkisson's Full Account Of The Clinton Bosnia Trip
Watch Attkisson's Original Report

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But Clinton had to address the issue herself Tuesday, after repeated airings of the 1996 video clips caused critics to ridicule her.

Reminded that she had said it was the first time she had misspoken in 12 years, Clinton told reporters: "I was joking. Lighten up, guys."

In a March 17 speech in Washington, Clinton said of the Bosnia trip: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

That account was still posted on her campaign Website Tuesday.

Clinton told CNN last week, "There was no greeting ceremony, and we basically were told to run to our cars. Now, that is what happened."

Several news outlets disputed the claims.

Clinton began retracting the remarks in a series of private interviews Monday and Tuesday before addressing about two dozen reporters here after a speech.

She told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."

She told KDKA radio in Pittsburgh: "You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign."

The Obama campaign fueled the Bosnia brouhaha Tuesday, sponsoring a conference call with Pennsylvania reporters that featured retired Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Stewart said he was assigned to the Army's European headquarters when Clinton visited Bosnia as first lady in 1996. He said her claim that she landed under enemy fire insulted U.S. soldiers charged with her security.

Clinton's explanation that she misspoke was "really astonishing," said Stewart, who supports Obama.

"She has no sense of what a statement like that does to soldiers," Stewart said. "She is insulting the command in its entirety."

"Believe me, heads would have rolled all over" if the military put the first lady and her daughter in a position of "unacceptable risk."

At her news conference, Clinton said, "the military and the Secret Service did a terrific job" of handling the situation in Bosnia. "We did take precautions," she said, noting that she was the first president's wife to enter a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt.

Clinton did her best to change the subject Tuesday. She launched her first TV ad in Pennsylvania, in which she promises to "end $55 billion dollars in giveaways to corporate special interests and invest it in middle class tax cuts and creating new jobs." The ad aired in Ohio prior to its March 4 primary.

At a rally in Greensburg, east of Pittsburgh, she proposed ways to help Americans save for retirement. She would offer up to $1,000 in matching tax cuts to middle-income families who put money into retirement savings accounts. About 3.4 million Pennsylvania families would qualify, she said.

Clinton's plan also would "close the loophole that allows companies to cut their employees' pensions when they sell off subsidiaries," her campaign said in a statement. She also called for bankruptcy law changes to reduce companies' ability to evade pension obligations.

On another front, Obama campaign aides posted his tax returns from 2000 to 2006 on his campaign Web site, and called on Clinton to do the same. They also called on Clinton to release full records of her daily schedule during her eight years as first lady.

Clinton said she hoped to release her tax returns "within the next week."

[truthword08]

Here Mrs. Clinton, I''ll make it quite easy for you.

"I LIED".

That''s all you have to say ok?

[armydog2]

No mistake hillary, you lied.

[stn_sage]

She never expected the media to bring out the Bosnia piece, and if they did, she would do what she did today---just say, I made a mistake. Yeah, you LIED!

Or, rather you got caught lying which is more accurate.

[notopennshut]

Mistake? About what? When you were actually reading from prepared notes? A lie is a lie is a lie! When one lies for even pretty insignificant stuff, you know it is a habit that would affect other judgements. So far, all the "foreign experiences" that she has claimed has actually turned out to be more embellishments and exaggerations than reality. Ask the foreign principles such involved and they have confirmed that. Once a liar, always a liar. The truth really speaks louder than lies.

[tawpdawg1]

Now if she''d just admit to that mistaken vote that has gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed and maimed

[sevenveils]

"It was a dark and stormy dangerous place. No, that''s what I think of when I think me and Bill''s bed."

What a lying low down yellowed bellied lizard she is. Is this some of the best the Democrats have as a presidential candidate? Out of 300 million people? What a sad day this is.

[lorinkundert]

Clinton: "I Made A Mistake"

No Hillary, you deliberately lied in the hopes that no one would check out your claims, you did the same thing when you made claims involving the Irish Peace accords.

[infidel_us]

''Clinton: "I Made A Mistake" On Bosnia Tale''

She did. Her mistake was LYING!!!!!!!

[obama8years]

The great Obama hypocrisies Amongst his many other flip-flops and after Barrack stated he was never present in the pews or present during the many highly inflammatory remarks stating clearly that he had no knowledge and was unaware of his pastors remarks%u2026 he has now in his speech on Tuesday now has made a full 180 degree turnaround now stating that he was indeed present during his pastors racially insensitive remarks not only admitting he was present but still remains firm in defending his anti-U.S. charged sermons.

Is this the person we are now considering as a nominee for the presidency
of America, that remains decided in crediting those demonstrating there devotions to Africa and the partisan views, at the same time beholding to such inflamed Anti-American, sentiments amongst his own many other now controversial and racially charged and currently exposed contradictions of judgment that Obama himself can no longer keep hidden within into his own consistent and excused in played upon speeches keeping himself under the radar of the voting multitudes left into Barrack Obama%u2019s dilutions now being so falsely mislead by his own blind faith.

[rfcrtl]

I was at that rally today (before this press conference) and it was great!

[obama8years]

I cannot vote for Obama, even though I did vote for him in the primary. He is hoping we all learn to love blacks and the black community. He is not hoping that the black community loves others.

[obama8years]

When I listened to Obama speak about his Grandmother being in fear of black men and he %u201Ccringed%u201D I hear in his voice that he feels resentment toward his white relatives. Maybe there is reason to fear black folks if all they do in church and home is restate, over and over again, how much they are disliked by %u201Cwhite folks%u201D . White churches would NEVER speak about a race of people like they apparently do in many black churches. Now I understand where all the black hate for whites and success come from. It has been preached to them for decades. No other type of religious group speaks this way. Therefore most homes don%u2019t speak this way. Only black ones, apparently.

Maybe those black men his Grandmother was in fear of glared at her or looked at her in a way that caused her to fear. She apparently raised her children to love everyone and to do good things. Her daughter, Obama%u2019s mom, loved a black man enough to have his child.

[phillysage]

Hillary''s been abroad millions of times in millions of places--one reason she has it all over baby Barakh when it comes to world experience.
However, the sexist jerks in the media expect her to have perfect recollection of an event 12 years ago, though it doesn''t expect the slick Obama to recall his exact relationship with Retzko just last year!

[generey]

I wish she looked like the Hillary from "Fresh Prince of Bellaire", it would help soooo much, but she don''t. It does appear though that she does have the same mindset.

[pepperwood2]

I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Millions of words a Day Hillary! Take this simple counting test folks. Count as fast as you can for one minute X 60 X 24 and see how far you get?

Without her stopping to take cocaine, speed, crack or her medicine I doubt she get over 250,000.

Her delusions, fantasies & hallucinations keep coming and getting bigger & more discerning all the time. So sad!

[tawpdawg1]

None of this would matter if "OPERATION CHAOS" were not giving Clinton more delegates than she deserves. How can it be stopped before further voter fraud occurs? Clearly this race should already be over and democrats could be storing ammo for the general election. HRC may not have won Ohio primary without Limbaugh''s illegal help. ***Ohio''s reputation for voter fraud has surpassed Florida''s and is on the fast track to legendary after this "Operation Chaos" with Rush Limbaugh. He''s selling t-shirts and ball caps with "OPERATION CHAOS" emblazoned on them at www.rushlimbaugh.com. Those of you that want one can pay extra to have him wipe his rear with them. How''s about that! He might as well be giving Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann the finger to his face. Show some nads. Prosecute him. 16,000 people in Cuyahoga County alone have committed felonies at his direction. Does that mean NOTHING to you guys in OHIO? WOW !! Restore a little integrity in your state

[tawpdawg1]

R ush Limbaugh was urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to skip their party''''s primary on March 4 and instead vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the fight between her and Barack Obama. And that Tuesday thousands of Republicans did just what Limbaugh had suggested - they changed parties to vote for Clinton. "I want Hillary to stay in this," Limbaugh told Laura Ingraham. "This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically."I was expecting in her victory speech last night to be thanked. "I helped give Mrs. Clinton the biggest and happiest moment and night of the campaign season so far, maybe her life." While this all makes for great talk radio and sounds like fun, there is one catch................. What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail. That is because in order to change party affiliation in Ohio, voters have to fill out a form swearing allegiance to that party''''s principles "under penalty of election falsification."--Thanks Rush! You''''re a great American. At your direction, 16,000 potential felonies committed in one Ohio county alone ! There must be tens of thousands more across the state. Trying to get the worst candidate nominated. This makes patriotic Americans sick . Can these crimes be stopped before these next primaries? SUPER DEL''''S PAY ATTENTION !!

[rowdytexan2]

According to records there was sniper fire in the area, and they did run out to their vehicles. And it was reported that the place was one of the most dangerous.

So she embellished a story! Hooo ha! Take her out and hang her, put up to ridicule, smear ***** all over her! Hooo aaahhhh!

While you at it, take about 50 or 60 boring men I''ve had to listen to tell about the big fish that got away, how they kicked arse down at the beer joint last weekend when they came home beat all to pieces, or how important they are in their flea picking jobs, or how they had the fastest car in the race the other day, or how much money they make when they''re flat broke!

While we''re at it, let''s just kick some real butt!

[rb070454]

"Misspoke" is a term you use to when you make an indiscrete comment, or if you say something that doesn''t make sense. But there is a HUGE difference between exaggerating a subjective truth, or rationalizing the meaning of a sticky comment and COMPLETELY fabricating details. Apparently, the only thing that''s accurate about Hillary''s description of her trip to Bosnia is that she went. Otherwise, virtually every detail is pure fabrication. This is usually known as a LIE, and it''s rare that we have the opportunity to see the lies of a politician exposed so clearly. Hillary''s supporters will undoubtedly rationalize the lies by saying that all politicians do it, or that it''s a minor fabrication regarding an unimportant event. However, where I come from, telling the truth defines the quality of someone''s character. The real problem with people rationalizing this behavior is that it lowers the standards we hold for politicians, as though they should somehow be exempt from standard rules of behavior. When we accept this behavior, we say that it''s OK for politicians to lie to us. Well... it isn''t OK for me. I don''t accept it in my personal relationships, and there''s no reason I should accept it from the people that I elect to represent me. In my mind, if Hillary Clinton will lie about something so relatively insignificant, is there some reason she wouldn''t lie about something important?

[phillysage]

"When I listened to Obama speak about his Grandmother being in fear of black men and he %u201Ccringed%u201D I hear in his voice that he feels resentment toward his white relatives."
Posted by obama8years

obama8years(let''s hope not!),
you hit the nail right on the head! He''s always resented his white half, especially his Mom--but I''m not sure his Mom loved herself either, or at least her American side, she did not go to bed with white or black Americans, only third-world foreign men from Indonesia or Kenya.
baby Barakh is a slick manipulative psychopath and more will be revealed.
The Democrats will be buried with him.
If the GOP made Kerry French, imagine what they will do to Barakh Hussein-that-is-his-middle-name Obamma!

[thisandthat1]

Having this story on the CBS website for so long must be killing Katie Couric .... she''s Hillary biggest cheerleader!

[phillysage]

the Obamanable obamites, drunk on that Kool-Aid again expect hillary to remember details from over 12 years ago, but baby Barakh can''t seem to recall his relationship with his best friend and slumlord Antoin Rezko, just last year! Gimme a break! The Audacity of Hypocrisy!

[kenbomc]

Most of us have been saying this all along. Hillary will say anything to get elected. She even deceives her own supporters.

[phillysage]

By the way, why is no one mentioning that Kwame Kilpatrick, the now indicted mayor of Detroit is another friend and superdelegate for Hussein Obama?

[fid4cbs]

Sleep Deprived? Uh Oh. Will that be her excuse when she answers that 3AM phone call? (sorry about the missles, I was sleep deprived and I misspoke. It happens, you know.)

[BrandoPolo]

Oh, please, is CBS on the Obama campaign''s payroll now. The title of this piece of drivel is so ominous, I was expecting some kind of smoking gun. CBS is playing semantics. Is she supposed to remember every single minor details of an event that happened nearly 15 years ago? What a load of ***.

[fid4cbs]

phillysage said:
By the way, why is no one mentioning that Kwame Kilpatrick, the now indicted mayor of Detroit is another friend and superdelegate for Hussein Obama?


Probably because it has no more relevance than the fact that Eliot Spitzer is another friend and superdelegate (well, I guess not any more) for Clinton. Who are your friends?


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[sosoe-2009]

HEY CLINTON SUPPORTERS!!!! Who said, "I---did---not---have---s##---with ---that---woman"!!!! Who said, "I---did--not---inhale!!!! Who said, "I---- misspoke"!!!! THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER!!!! (And I''m an Ex-Clinton Supporter)

[no_billary]

Its like she just cant help herself from lying over and over and over...
Its time for this fraud to do the right thing and end her disgusting campaign of deception.
Classic Clinton: lie and deny.

[kay050]

I would much rather vote for a person who can''t remember something that happened a dozen years ago. Then a person who turns his back on the flag that represents the country he wants to run. If Clinton was a man she would of already won this.

[usmcvn2]

According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is:

The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s,
of MUSLIM descent,
who will deceive the nations with persuasive language,
and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal. ...
the prophecy says that people will flock to him
and he will promise false hope and world peace,
and when he is in power,

will destroy everything.

Is it OBAMA??

[fid4cbs]

BrandoPolo said:
Is she supposed to remember every single minor details of an event that happened nearly 15 years ago? What a load of ***.


Last time I shot at I didn''t consider it a "minor detail." What a load of *** is right.

[whatisit21]

American leaders are a joke. Lying, racist. They all look bad and are making the country look bad.

[ajaxtheleast]

The media people dont do what dems want
them to do.

And what they''re doing now is hatchet-
jobing Hillary.

Which means THAT is what the REPUBS
want them to do.

So, . . .they''re more scared of Hillary huh?

You bet!!

[broncfan1661]

Turn off the high intensity lights, untie her hands and release the prisoner people. And let''s get down to the real issues. Like Rev Jerimiah Wright for instance.

[bsimon2007]

Old Hillary: "Words matter!"

New Hillary: "Errrr... I was tired, and misspoke."

[jesterbelle]

I''m sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool
I didn''t know
Love could be so cruel
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don''t right
The wrong that''s been done

Spoken:
(I''m sorry) I''m sorry
(So sorry) So sorry
Please accept my apology
But love is blind
And I was to blind to see
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don''t right
The wrong that''s been done
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

I''m sorry, so sorry
Please accept my apology
But love was blind
And I was too blind to see
(Sorry)

[ More Lee Brenda Lyrics ]

Talk about credibility...Obama minimizes his relationship with Rev. Wright by bending truth to the breadking point but that''s okay because Obama is a media darling. He has only known the guy for twenty years.
Hillary remembered the Bosnia trip as a dangerous one and it was. There was sniper fire in the vicinity. She was probably told the situation was dangerous so that is the way she remembers it. It was twelve years ago and CBS is making a mountain out of a molehill.
I don''t care if she embellished this story...Clinton with all her warts is the best candidate out there...she is the most experienced, she has real White House experience because she advised her husband and has always done so, she represented America well in her 80 trips and I am certain her diplomatic efforts helped this country, and she has been dragged through the mud by the Obama campaign. Guess what! She is still standing and fighting and will continue to do so.

[infidel_us]

The ole dem out of Detroit story sure disappeared fast. ''Hey, where all da white women at?''

Hillary, was the girl who brought you flowers during your deplane firefight alright??? I''m sure you used yourself to shield her from sniper fire.

[sosoe-2009]

Can''t remember what happened 15 years ago!!! Well, I KNOW I would remember if I "landed under sniper fire," or "narrowly escaping enemy bullets"!!! How can you confuse THAT with being GREETED BY A LITTLE GIRL WITH FLOWERS?!!! Give Me A Break!!!

[Syndicate]

I wish CBS would apply this same standard to Obama. HE has inflated and misrepresented his record too. Yet CBS gives him a pass.

[random_radar]

According to my wife, I have said all kinds of things I can''t remember and can''t imagine ever saying. Maybe it is part of being a woman that you remember reality different than what really happened. Give the lady a break!

[jegibbons]

As a US Army, boots on the ground, Viet Nam combat Veteran, personally I am sympathetic with Mrs. Clinton. I see on this CBS Web site blogs and many many postings by waco leftist loonies whose recollections are far worse and whose exaggerations stretch believability beyond all limits.
It would appear the simple truth is beyond their grasp.
I once took great pleasure in figuratively blowing up these pretenders to be war veteran by clarifying a few of their twisted lies with simple facts thereby exposing their lies. But I No Longer Feel any need to do this.
WHY? Because their lies become self evident with time.
Just as it is becoming clearer each day that
John McCain is the only viable, sensible candidate for those who value the truth and are trying to live by it everyday.

[erichsh]

Clinton is finally getting the same press treatment that Republicans get all the time. The only reason for it this time, though, is because of the media''s over-the-top love affair with Obama. I''m no Hillary supporter by any stretch, but I''m almost sympathetic. However, I''m aware that if it were Hillary vs. McCain only, the media would be kissing up to Hillary again big time, just like they used to.

[stanleyrice]

"and I did misspeak the other day".

''misspeak", a word created by one of the worlds greatest liars, Richard Nixon. It is also widely used by George W. Bush and friends. One party is all you have, NOT TWO, and NO REAL CHOICE! But the carnival brings in a lot of bucks for the media, and keeps the Americans believing in the game.
The truth shall set you free.

[repdemapart]

HILLARY JUST GOT A KNIFE AND STABBED HERSELF - IN THE HEART.

SHE IS SUCH AND IDIOT!

[sosoe-2009]

So, ABC gives HELL-ARY a pass. And so does CNN (CLINTON NEWS NETWORK) This story about Hell-ary lieing, broke MONDAY OF LAST WEEK, when SOME of her white house papers were released!!! The ENTIRE media, tried to cover it up!! They were still "blowing up" Rev Wright!! If this had been Obama lieing about his experience, the media would have DEMOLISHED him!! The news video coverage of the Bosnia trip came back to "bite Hell-ery in the a##!! Boy, those video cameras are something!!!

[infidel_us]

Give the lady a break!
Posted by random_radar at 07:31 PM : Mar 25, 2008

NO F**KInG way! She''s a liar! Of course, being a Clinton, that''s kind of a redundent statement.

Would you bring your daughter to an area of the world where you would have to deplane under sniper fire? Would a first lady go there??

"The Clinton''s lie with such ease it''s troubling" - David Geffen

[trishab4]

According to my wife, I have said all kinds of things I can''''t remember and can''''t imagine ever saying. Maybe it is part of being a woman that you remember reality different than what really happened. Give the lady a break!
Posted by random_radar at 07:31 PM : Mar 25, 2008

-random_radar, quite accurate conclusion Let''s give her a break. Let her go home and rest. Presidential nomination and elections are too hard on her, confusing... let her go home and cry a river.

[hawksprings]

Hillary isn''t sleep-deprived,
Hillary is truth-deprived.

I think she caught it from her husband.