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Anonymous, you were closer to the truth than I believed you to be, so you deserve my apology. I do think you extrapolate quite a bit to call a "volunteer county" person "a Clinton staff member." And I can't imagine why you forgot to mention the rapid and direct and public response by the Senator. I suppose that was something that didn't fit your ongoing and USUALLY misleading narrative on the Clintons. Like the latest calumny--her presumed refusal to take a stand on waterboarding. Here's the entire statement:
Kornblut and Balz interview, Monday, Oct 8, 2007"It is not clear yet exactly what this administration is or isn't doing. We're getting all kinds of mixed messages," Clinton said. "I don't think we'll know the truth until we have a new president. I think [until] you can get in there and actually bore into what's been going on, you're not going to know."
I think you have to stretch this comment way out of shape to get the reading you provide. To me, it means she suspects there have been not just waterboarding, but other things as horrible or worse.
Still, you aren't naive as I accused you of. And certainly not a liar--which I expressly hoped you weren't. Now if you could only be fair, we'd be in clover.
