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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator from New York- Former First Lady


-Sen. Hillary Clinton listens to witnesses at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on military death benefits on Tuesday. Photo by Pedro Sa Da Bandeira

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Hillary Blames Bush for Abortions

NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005 9:43 a.m. EST
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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There has been an increase in the number of abortions in eight states, and it's all President Bush's fault, says pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton.

Speaking at a pro-abortion rally in Washington attended by about 1,000 abortion advocates, while hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marched to protest abortion, the wife of the president who vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortion charged that President Bush has caused an increase in abortions because he is not fully funding family planning programs.

Explaining her bizarre contention, Senator Clinton said, "... unfortunately in the last few years, while we are engaged in ideological debate instead of one that uses facts and evidence and common sense, the rate of abortion is on the rise in some states."
"In the [first] three years since President Bush took office, eight states have seen an increase in abortion rates and four saw a decrease."

In relation to the noted comments:
Hillary, the liberal

WashingtonTimes.com Copyright News World Communications, Inc.
January 16, 2005

EXCERPT:
The National Right to Life Committee gave both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Kennedy a 0 rating for their uniformly pro-abortion votes throughout the 108th Congress. These votes include their joint opposition to the bipartisan Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which passed 64-34 with the support of 17 Democrats, and the bipartisan Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which passed last year by a 61-38 margin — with the support of 13 Democrats.
Among the nine votes in 2004 considered to be the most crucial by the ACLU, Mrs. Clinton failed to cast a single one different from Mr. Kennedy's. In fact, the only two votes she cast contrary to the ACLU's position passed the Senate by 90-4 and 98-0 margins — hardly a calculable measure of independence or moderation.
When Mr. Kerry emerged as the undisputed favorite to capture the Democrats' 2004 presidential nomination, he vigorously sought to distance himself from his unabashedly liberal record. He failed. Like Mr. Kerry, Mrs. Clinton can run in 2008, but she can't hide.

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Hillary: Just Say Condom!

MensNewsDaily.com
January 18, 2005
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by Kevin McCullough
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Hillary is steamed. There's not enough condom talk in the White House to suit her. Or maybe she just wants her own catch-phrase a la' Nancy Reagan. Whatever the case she's speaking out and is forming a startling new advocacy - for condoms.

It was no secret that condom use in America under her husband's leadership was at an all time, er high. A lot of things were, the flow of pornography, teen-pregnancy, abortion - and yes the use of, discussion of, demonstrations in public schools of - condoms.

More than one set of parents in every school district in America was startled by the words, "Mom, Dad, you'll never guess what we did with a banana in class today..."

Yep, in Clinton Country "Condoms are King".

Hence Hillary Clinton's recent comments to the gay advocacy magazine The Advocate.

Although the Bush administration officially supports the "ABC" HIV prevention model--abstinence, be faithful, use condoms--Clinton says far too much emphasis is placed on abstinence rather than on condom use. "ABC is a good strategy, but it has three parts to it, and we need to remind the Administration of that," Clinton said at an awards dinner for the International Women's Health Coalition in New York City. "There are so many strategies that we know work, and we are not yet fully committed in our government to implementing those strategies."

The "so many strategies" part we can get to...but is she really concerned that condoms are what we need to focus on more?

ETA: WND Link to article

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NewsMax.com Hillary LINKs

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Hillary Clinton's Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted

WNBC.com © 2005, Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc./The Associated Press contributed to this report.
POSTED: 4:53 pm EST January 7, 2005
UPDATED: 10:15 am EST January 8, 2005

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former finance director has been indicted on charges of filing fictitious reports that misstated contributions for a Hollywood fund-raising gala for the senator, the Justice Department said Friday.

The indictment, rare for a political campaign, was unsealed in Los Angeles charging David Rosen with four counts of filing false reports with the Federal Election Commission. The charges focus on an Aug. 12, 2000, dinner and concert supported by more than $1.1 million in "in-kind contributions" -- goods and services provided for free or below cost. The event was estimated to cost more than $1.2 million.

The FBI previously said in court papers that it had evidence the former first lady's campaign deliberately understated its fund-raising costs so it would have more money to spend on her campaign.

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Factual Information On Hillary Clinton

TownHall.com Look out, Hillary's morphing into Bill

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"Rewriting History"

FoxNews.com View Full Article
by Dick Morris
Updated January 26, 2005

(Chapter Excerpt : Deconstructing Hillary)

Both of the Clintons are masters of subterfuge. But Hillary’s deceptions and disguises are very different from Bill’s. Bill Clinton deceives himself, and fools us in the process. He pretends, even when he is alone, that he is not doing what he knows he is doing. He never tells his right hand what his left hand is up to.

By contrast, Hillary knows full well who she is and what parts of her must never be exposed to public view. She reminds herself consciously, day after day, which parts of herself to hide and which to expose. Where Bill’s instinct for deception is neurotic, Hillary’s is opportunistic. He wants to hide his private life from our eyes; Hillary seeks to conceal her character from our view. But the things that Hillary hides are integral to her political essence. They are who she is and what makes her tick. Her trickery is designed to hide her most basic character and instincts from all of us.

Covering up one’s flaws is certainly not unusual — especially in politics. All politicians have done things they would rather not see broadcast to their constituents. Everyone in the public spotlight has private issues he or she would like to keep hidden. JFK did not want us to see his illness or promiscuity. FDR disguised his paralysis. Bill Clinton pretended to be a faithful husband. But what makes Hillary’s unseen side unique is that, for the most part, it represents her real personality, her true self, far more than the person who smiles and giggles at us day and night. All public figures use makeup to cover a blemish or two. But only Hillary wears a mask of so many layers, one that hides her true face altogether...view full article.



Additional Article:
HarperCollins.com Rewriting History by Dick Morris Book Description

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rdvrk219, on Jan 28 2005, 04:17 AM, said:

Hillary: Can a liberal change her spots?
Mona Charen
townhall.com
1/28/05

little immigration reform here, a little religion in the public square there, a little gentle talk about common ground on abortion -- and what have you got? The birth of a new, moderate Hillary Clinton, announces the press.
"Democratic Party appears to be getting softer on reproductive rights," headlined a National Public Radio story. "Gasps as Hillary woos the anti-abortion vote," reported the London Daily Telegraph. "Hillary Clinton Seen as Staking Out Centrist Positions," announced the Bulletin's Frontrunner.

It's a testament to the rigidity and extremism of the pro-choice abortion movement that even such platitudinous phrases as Clinton tossed into her address to the New York State Family Planning Providers conference were considered signs of movement to the center.

Clinton, in what some hopeful Democrats are describing as her "Sister Souljah" moment (a reference to Bill Clinton's rebuke to a hip-hop star in 1992), told a pro-choice audience that "opposing sides" on the abortion question should "seek common ground" in the effort to prevent unwanted pregnancies. (Oh gosh, she's gone soft!) Clinton further allowed that, "We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women."

If anodyne words like those are evidence of a move to the right, consider what that says about the pro-choice position. The pro-choice movement does not want to seek common ground in preventing unplanned pregnancies? It does not recognize that abortion is sad or tragic?

In point of fact, the pro-choice position has hardened over the years to the point where any deviation from orthodoxy is considered heresy. Abortion advocates have fervently resisted every single legislative limit on abortion. They've stoutly opposed waiting periods, parental notification laws and bans on late-term abortions and partial birth abortions. They've even opposed a law that would permit a baby who by accident survives a late-term abortion to be welcomed into life.

Elsewhere in her address, though, Clinton reassured her audience that she remains firmly in the camp of traditional liberals. Following lip service to abstinence programs, Clinton launched into a full-throated cry for (naturally) more federal spending on "comprehensive family planning services." She denounced what she labeled the "global gag rule," by which federal funds are denied for abortion services worldwide.

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She Stayed With Bill to Save America

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In her book "Living History," Mrs. Clinton recalls that after she learned about Monica Lewinsky, "I knew what I did and said in the next days and weeks would influence not just Bill's future and mine, but also America's."

"Bill's Presidency, the institutional Presidency and the integrity of the Constitution hung in the balance."

"If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country."

Source:
Time.com

Clinton also compares her willingness to forgive Bill with Nelson Mandela's decision to forgive his white jailers.

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"It was a challenge to forgive Bill . . . [but] if Mandela could forgive, I would try," she writes.

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ContactMusic.com
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CapitalistDefender.com

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took time off from promoting her new book to stump for Sen. Barbara Boxer at a Democratic fundraiser, at which she lashed out at the Bush administration for its ``total abdication to crony capitalism.''

Clinton said the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which requires all teachers be qualified and sanctions schools that do poorly, was not fully funded. Instead, she said the White House had adopted an attitude of ``No millionaire left behind.''

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``They never met a corporate scheme and a special interest or a preferred privilege that they didn't go for,'' Clinton said. ``That's how they see their responsibility. Their responsibility is a political, short-term commitment to this radical agenda.''

Source:
MercuryNews.com

Hillary: "I live in the real world"

“Hillary Clinton Plans To Concentrate On Local Issues,” Business Week as cited in the bulletin Frontrunner, May 31, 2002

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"I live in the real world. I got on the subway in the Bronx a few weeks ago and a woman came up to me who works seven days a week.”

Source: http://yatesnetwork....new_page_39.htm
added 05/31/03 Lost LINK, still searching - Wilrulz

"Clinton Vows To Do More To Aid Farmers," The Buffalo News, May 19, 2002

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"No one thought New Jersey produced anything but concrete."

Source: http://yatesnetwork....new_page_39.htm
added 05/31/03

"I Know a Little Bit About How White Houses Work"

Clinton blasted the Bush administration, saying that New Yorkers were misled when the Environmental Protection Agency told them after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that the air was safe to breathe.

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"I know a little bit about how White Houses work," she said. "I know somebody picked up a phone, somebody got on a computer, somebody sent an e-mail, somebody called for a meeting, somebody in that White House probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain told the E.P.A.: 'Don't tell the people of New York the truth.' And I want to know who that is."

Source: http://www.foxnews.c...3,96072,00.html
added 09/04/03


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Firestorm, on Feb 25 2005, 08:15 AM, said:

Taken from Newsmax.com

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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Friday, Feb. 25, 2005 6:47 a.m. EST

Hillary Rebuked by Iraqi Leader

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has caused an international incident after she criticized Iraq's leading candidate to become prime minister as a result of last month's historic election, prompting a sharp rebuke.

"Hillary Clinton, as far as I know, does not represent any political decision or the American administration, and I don't know why she said this," Dr. Ibrahim Jafari, who is expected to become prime minister, told the Times of London on Thursday.

"She knows nothing about the Iraqi situation," he added.

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Marc0, on Feb 25 2005, 02:46 PM, said:

From Meet the Press:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7003226/

Once again, put into proper context what Hilary said is twisted to what Newsmax wanted to "catch" her saying.  There is a reason you won't see that headline in a legitimate news organization because it is a manipulation.
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formerlurker, on Mar 7 2005, 05:32 PM, said:

Ex-Stan Lee Chief Paul to Plead in Securities Case

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved
Mon Mar 7, 2005 05:20 PM ET
By Gina Keating

[Excerpt]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stan Lee Media co-founder Peter Paul said on Monday that he would plead guilty to a federal securities charge.

However, Paul said the plea was not part of an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors probing alleged campaign finance violations by Sen. Hillary Clinton's staff.

Paul told Reuters he would plead guilty on Tuesday in New York federal court to one count of manipulating the share price of Stan Lee Media, an online entertainment company he founded with comic book legend Stan Lee that collapsed in 2000.

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On Monday, Paul demanded that Sen. Clinton "take responsibility for her role in what was the largest campaign finance fraud basically that has ever been reported."

"I'm standing up and taking responsibility for an SEC violation. ... She, as a public figure, should do the same for her (Federal Election Commission) violation," he said.

A spokeswoman for Clinton could not immediately be reached for comment.

Clinton has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with the Aug. 12, 2000, fund-raising concert starring Cher and Diana Ross and billed as honoring her husband.

Prosecutors estimated the fund-raiser cost more than $1.2 million, paid for with more than $1.1 million of "in-kind" contributions from Paul. But Rosen purportedly told federal election officials in-kind contributions totaled $400,000.

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Sturm Ruger, on Apr 21 2005, 07:16 PM, said:

Hill Back Playing in 'Left' Field

Deborah Orin, © 2005 NYP Holdings, Inc.

April 21, 2005

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OOPS. The Hillary Meter is wobbling back to the left — and less electable — side as potential 2008 presidential wannabe Sen. Rodham Hillary Clinton tries to protect her liberal turf.
Today she's 56 points to the left of America's political center, up from 52 a few weeks ago, according to the Hillary Meter national poll created by Scott Rasmussen. That puts her a tad further to the left than 2004 loser John Kerry, who's 54 points off-center.

President Bush is 37 points to the right of center, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — the dream 2008 anti-Hillary candidate for many Republicans — is well-positioned just 21 points to the right.

The wavering Hillary Meter shows what a delicate dance Clinton must do to edge to the center while protecting her left flank, as she did with a red-meat April 9 speech accusing President Bush of creating "a brave new world of extremism."

"It could be the reaction to the speech," said independent pollster Rasmussen, who accurately predicted the 2004 election within 1 percentage point of the actual result.

"It could be that a lot of people talked about how she was moving to the center and people said, 'This is not believable.' If you're doing it to remake your image and move to the center, it shouldn't be so visible," he added.

Clinton could easily get the Democratic 2008 nomination with such a liberal rating, but "she's too liberal to get elected" unless things nationally are seen as going badly, he said.

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Read the complete op-ed at nypost.com.
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pepperonikkid, on May 6 2005, 03:54 PM, said:

Hillary the Felon? Does Hillary Have Reservations at the Graybar Hotel?
mensnewsdaily.com
The Tin Ear
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Excerpt:

Today Sean Hannity had Peter Paul on his show. Who is Peter Paul? Well you may ask, he is the primary organizer of the August 12, 2000 Hollywood Gala Salute to President Clinton. According to the website Hillcap this was a combination Salute and Fundraiser for Hillary's 2000 Senatorial campaign. The gala ended up costing Paul 1.2 million dollars and raised one-million dollars in hard money for Hillary's coffers. The problem, Hillary's campaign only declared a cost of $400 thousand resulting in a net additional $800 thousand of "in kind" contribution by Paul. Why is this a problem? Because under Federal Election Law, Paul's "in kind" contribution is considered a hard money contribution. Had the Clinton campaign declared the full amount, it would have bankrupted the campaign. Can you say "victory through fraud?"

Federal prosecutors, in January, unsealed an indictment against Hillary's National Finance Director, David F. Rosen. In the indictment, which neglects to mention Hillary by name, instead calling her "Senator A" and names Paul as contributor "C-1," indicts Rosen on four counts of knowingly filing, or causing to be filed, false disclosure information with the FEC and of knowingly causing to be written false documentation to the fact that the total in kind contributions from C-1 were limited to $200,000. Each of the four counts is punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The trial was scheduled to begin yesterday, but was postponed until next week.

Here's the bombshell. Mr. Paul will provide testimony and hard evidence that Hillary not only knew of the misrepresentation, but that she orchestrated it and other activities in violation of federal election law. The reason for these machinations? Had the Clinton campaign declared the full amount of these campaign contributions, it probably would have bankrupted the coffers. Can you say "victory through fraud?" For those of us who have always known the Clintons for the team responsible for the most corrupt administration in the last century, all of this should come as no surprise. To obsess, we had "filegate," "Monicagate," "Whitewatergate," "Fostergate," "travelgate," "IRSgate," "pardongate," and now we've added "Galagate."

Watch for the MSM to be on a full court press with this story. Dave Kendall, the Clinton's spin control (read scandal-remember the impeachment procedings?) lawyer has already alluded to Mr. Paul's prior criminal record. In the eighties, Paul was convicted of cocaine possession and attempted fraud. He is currently out on bail for an appeal on a conviction for securities fraud stemming from the dot-com bubble of the 90's. If it wasn't for the evidence he brings to the table, I would be inclined to dismiss all of this as an attempt to curry favor with the Department of Justice. However, having read the documents including faxes signed by Hillary and Bill, I am inclined to believe that this is major stuff.
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Historical Articles on Halfwit:
Teacher.Scholastic.com About Hillary
Time.com Hillary Unbound
Rotten.com Hillary Clinton
Rotten.com Richard M. Nixon
Rotten.com Watergate
Rotten.com What happened with Vince Foster

ContactMusic.com CLINTON: COUNSELLING AND MANDELA SAVED MY MARRIAGE
NewsMax.com Hillary Blames Bush for Abortions

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Sturm Ruger, on May 8 2005, 12:01 PM, said:

Hillary in 2008? No Way!
Why the former First Lady should stay in the Senate
 
Joe Klein, Copyright © 2005 Time Inc.

Sunday, May. 08, 2005

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I like Senator Clinton. She has a wicked, ironic sense of humor (in private) and a great raucous belly laugh. She is smart and solid; she inspires tremendous loyalty among those who work for her. She is not quite as creative a policy thinker as her husband, but she easily masters difficult issues—her newfound grasp of military matters has impressed colleagues of both parties on the Armed Services Committee—and she is not even vaguely the left-wing harridan portrayed by the Precambrian right. I also think that a Clinton presidential candidacy in 2008 would be a disaster on many levels.

It would doubtless be a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s. Already there are blogs, websites and fund-raising campaigns dedicated to denigrating her. According to the New York Observer last week, these sites aren't getting much traffic—yet. But they will. I remember several conversations with Senator Clinton after her health-care plan was killed 10 years ago, and she was clearly pained—nonplussed by the quality of anger, the sheer hatred, directed against her. That experience would be a walk in the park compared to the vitriol if she ran for President. And while I'd love to see someone confront, and defeat, the free-range haters on the right, the last thing we need is a campaign that would polarize the nation even more. Indeed, we could use the exact opposite—a candidate who would inspire America's centrist majority to rise up against the extreme special interests in both parties.

Senator Clinton's supporters will say she is that candidate. And it is true that Clinton has far more leeway to run as a moderate than almost any other Democrat. Her repositioning on social issues has been overrated—she will have to do more than merely "respect" those who oppose abortion; she will have to propose creative compromises.

But Clinton is a judicious hawk on foreign policy and has learned her lessons on domestic-policy overreach. No less an expert than Newt Gingrich says, "Hillary has become one of the very few people who know what to do about health care." Still, she has some very real political limitations. She has a clenched, wary public presence, which won't work well in an electorate that prizes aw-shucks informality; she isn't a particularly warm or eloquent speaker, especially in front of large audiences. Any woman running for President will face a toughness conundrum: she will constantly have to prove her strength and be careful about showing her emotions. She won't have the luxury of, say, Bill Clinton's public sogginess. It will take a brilliant politician to create a credible feminine presidential style. So far, Senator Clinton hasn't shown the ease or creativity necessary to break the ultimate glass ceiling.

And then there is her husband, a one-man supermarket tabloid...

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rdvrk219, on May 9 2005, 06:50 AM, said:

No Shift to the Center
Stereotypes, Not Policy Changes, Drive Criticism of Hillary Clinton
Peter Beinart
Washington Post
5.9.05

Hillary Clinton has moved to the center in preparation for 2008. It's become a cliche -- so self-evidently true that it shows up not merely in editorials but in news articles as well.

One of the reasons it's so uncontroversial is that it seems innocuous, even flattering. It shows how shrewd a politician Clinton is. She knows Democrats must do better among hawkish, culturally traditional voters -- so she's moving in that direction herself.

 
But in fact the "Hillary shifts to the center" line isn't innocuous at all. It's crucial to the campaign that conservatives will wage against her in years to come. That campaign is likely to revolve around character.

In the 1980s Republicans demonized Democrats as ultra-liberals. But once Bill Clinton moved the party to the center in the '90s, that argument became less effective. And so in the past three presidential elections -- 1996, 2000 and 2004 -- Republicans have focused less on what Democratic candidates believe than on whether they believe anything at all. As the New Republic's Jonathan Chait has noted, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry were each called flip-floppers -- politicians willing to say anything to get elected. Those three GOP campaigns were all variations on the same theme: The Democrat running for president has no moral core.

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Wyn, on Jun 11 2005, 09:32 AM, said:

Hillary Appointee Tied to 9/11 Blunder

http://www.newsmax.c.../11/93512.shtml

Newsmax
Carl Limbacher
Saturday, June 11, 2005 9:32 a.m. EDT

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Press reports on Friday about an FBI report that offers new evidence on how the CIA failed to warn the FBI when two of the 9/11 hijackers entered the U.S. made no mention of the role played in the disastrous bungle by Hillary Clinton's Justice Department protege Jamie Gorelick.

Typical was coverage in the Los Angeles Times, which chronicled the efforts of a frustrated CIA agent who desperately tried to warn the FBI that Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar had migrated to San Diego after attending an Al Qaeda planning session in Malaysia 20 months before the 9/11 attacks.
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In picture of Hillary with soldier, the soldier crosses his fingers. A sign of not meaning what he is saying/doing or that he was compelled to do what he is doing: Snopes

Satus: True

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The gesture of crossing one's fingers is not unique to the military, of course; it is an ages-old symbol used to indicate that the finger-crosser does not mean what he is saying or is being compelled to act through coercion. (A typical kiddie trick is to surreptitiously cross one's fingers behind one's back while making a promise, a token that supposedly shields the finger-crosser from the obligation of upholding the terms of his oath.) The implication of the photograph shown above (which began circulating on the Internet in early 2004 and was taken at one of the military facilities New York senator Hillary Clinton visited in Iraq during the Thanksgiving 2003 holidays), then, is that despite the smiling faces and friendly hand-shaking captured in the picture, the soldier is communicating that he is not really all that pleased to be meeting Senator Clinton.

The "not really all that pleased" assessment is evidently accurate — although the picture originally appeared without any accompanying text, and the "coercion" caption was only added later to make the humor of the photograph more explicit — as the soldier pictured with Senator Clinton (who asked that we not identify him by name) told us that he employed the gesture to indicate that he was not a fan of the senator's and was not as appreciative of having the opportunity to meet (and pose with) her as it might otherwise appear.

"We are the President"

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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

[Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents ]
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