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Hillary Clinton is facing intense questions about her honesty in the aftermath of the Bosnia videos, the Washington Post Fact Checker elaborates on the issue in detail, after the Clinton campaign claimed, that Hillary Clinton “misspoke”. I’d like to ask the question: How come? She was so specific down to the details of which aircraft she used and that it was equipped with an armoured cockpit, and hey she was right, and then “misspoke” about the details of her arrival at the Tuzla airfield – a bit of a stretch!

This isn’t her only misspeech, however. Hillary Clinton claimed, she was highly sceptical if not downright against NAFTA right from the start. As we know now, she has been deeply involved in marketing the treaty, as First Lady. Here’s the video which perfectly contrasts what she said, to what happened, I had posted this here before:

But that’s not all:

Right before the Ohio primaries, there suddenly popped up a story, which implied, that an aide to Barack Obama told Canadians the critical campaign rhetoric against NAFTA was more or less, just campaign noise. This “leak” helped Hillary Clinton a lot in winning Ohio. Mark Penn said:

“It had a significant impact,” Mark Penn said during a conference call with reporters early Thursday. “I think it is going to be a serious issue moving forward in this campaign. It raised serious questions about Obama.”

The leak of that memo is quite a scandal in Canada and reason for a government probe. Now it turns out that the person who “leaked” that information Prime minister Harper’s chief of staff Ian Brodie, had initially implied the Clinton campaign not the Obama campaign:

The CTV story reportedly orginated from Harper’s chief of staff Ian Brodie, who told reporters in Ottawa that Hillary Clinton’s campaign assured Canadian officials they need not worry about her NAFTA rhetoric. There’s been no explanation for why the focus shifted to Obama in the CTV report that went to air.

It would be interesting to know how this shift in focus happened, indeed. Moreover if she was for NAFTA as a First Lady, then shortly against it during the campaign, doesn’t she have a much stronger motive to go and calm down the Canadians? It would be good to hear a definite statement on NAFTA by both candidates!