Hillary Clinton: 'I don't believe' I have ever lied
She has become so adept at lying, that she would rather lie than tell the truth, even when it would serve her better to tell the truth.
I liked what one of my political heroes (and Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipient) Former US Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska said about the Bill Clinton: "[Bill] Clinton's an unusually good liar, . . . "his fellow Democrat Bob Kerrey said of the president back around the time the First Lady was visiting postwar Bosnia. Thanks to the news footage of her unremarkable, sniper-free landing on the tarmac in Tuzla, we now know that Hillary Clinton is an equally brazen but unusually bad liar." In 2008, The New York Magazine ran an article by Kurt Andersen about Bill Clinton titled "Falling Out of Love with Bill." It began by focusing on one of the former president's most visible attributes: he's a consummate liar. Since she is running Bill Clinton out there on the campaign trail, as one of her surrogates, and she says he will be one of her closest advisers if she is elected, I think it is fair to impute Bill's mendacity to some extent to Hillary.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/02/bill_clinton_is_an_unusually_good_liar_and_hillary_is_no_slouch.html#ixzz40hr2R3wG
For a good article on why Hillary's lies about combat valor matter a lot more than Brian Williams Lies about similar "stolen valor," see: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/8/jospeh-curl-forget-brian-williams-its-hillary-clin/?page=all
Hillary is still refusing to release the texts of her paid speeches and who paid her and how much, until "everyone else releases theirs." The "I will show you mine, if you show me yours," logic might have worked when we were puberty-intoxicated grade school kids, but that "dog don't hunt" when you are running for President with a checkered past when it comes to telling whoppers. I can't forget Hillary lying in 2008 about being under fire when she flew out of or into Bosnia. I always thought that to be some form of Stolen Valor, that we talked about on a previous RP Post. She was trying to puff herself up, make herself look courageous for having flown into and out of a "War Zone." None of the Air Force air crews remembered being under fire. This is something a person says who is not conscious of how those lies takes something "important but undefinable" away from the men and women who have actually faced danger in war. I think of her whopper as being caught in the act of shoplifting some courage. "Never put yourself in a position where you can take from these men." -Dick Winters, Curahee Episode, Band of Brothers.
There are legit non-combatants that share the war fighter's combat danger . . . Joseph Galloway, the Vietnam War Correspondent who was with Lt. Col. Hal Moore and his men of 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, during the battle of la Drang Valley in 1965 comes to mind. Galloway, On May 1, 1998, was decorated with the Bronze Star with Valor. The medal was in recognition of his bravery at the November, 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, one of the first major conflicts fought by U.S. and North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War. Galloway was present as a journalist. During the fighting, he risked his own safety to assist wounded soldiers. His actions are depicted in the film We Were Soldiers in which he is portrayed by actor Barry Pepper. Mel Gibson portrayed Lt.Col. Hal Moore.
Since 2013 Galloway has worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War scheduled to be broadcast in fall of 2017 by PBS. Looking forward to another Ken Burns War documentary, such as the Civil War (1991), and The War (2007 about WWII).
I never knew either the Bronze Star or Purple Heart could be awarded under the Law or DOD Regulations to a Non-Combatant, who was not serving as an Armed Forces Member, under orders. Very remarkable and extremely rare. As a lawyer, I are very interested in what the legal authority is to award such combat decorations to a non-combatant, who is not in the US Military. I have heard of Vietnam deployed Marines and Soldiers who were in combat but could not apply for or receive combat awards because they did not have a UIC (unit identification code) or RUC (reporting unit code) code from which to start the process. This happened with the Marine Provisional Rifle Companies in Vietnam, which went on "contact and interdiction" night and day combat patrols from Danang, had regular contact with the enemy, and engaged in combat. Those provisional rifle companies were not assigned a RUC code. Dick Jeffries, one of our most active Vietnam War vets here in Santa Clarita, CA, served in such a Provisional Rifle Company and saw combat, but apparently was not eligible for combat awards because that Provisional Rifle company he was attached to did not have its own RUC code. See, 'Eagle Days," by former JAG and Rifle Company Commander Don. W. Griffis. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Galloway
WWII War Correspondent Ernie Pile comes to mind. Probably the most famous WWII War Correspondent, whom the GIs loved because he depicted their lives, and deaths and their suffering, especially the Grunt's Life (the Army Infantry) about as accurately as the Army censors would let him. He clearly suffered from PTSD due to all the horror he experienced and covered. He was later killed in the Pacific War, in April of 1945, while covering the Battle of Okinawa on a small Island, le Shima, just north west of the main island of Okinawa, and he was initially buried, like my grandfather, where he died, surrounded in death by those same GIs he loved. After the war Pyle's remains were re-interred at the Army cemetery on Okinawa, and later at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
"No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told," wrote Harry Truman. "He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen." Pyle was buried with his helmet on, among other battle casualties, with an infantry private on one side and a combat engineer on the other. The men of the Army unit he was covering erected a monument, which still stands, at the site of his death. Its inscription reads, “At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy. Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945.” In 1983 he was awarded the Purple Heart—a rare honor for a civilian—by the 77th Division's successor unit, the 77th Army Reserve Command.
Can you imagine that? The Army unit (the successor unit) that he was with when he was KIA, in 1983 awarded a civilian war correspondent the Purple Heart posthumously! From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle
About the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, AKA Punch Bowl cemetery (you can see the Punch Bowl from Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. I have been to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and it ranks right up there with my experiences of Arlington and Gettysburg as hallowed ground.
Prior to the opening of the cemetery for the recently deceased, the remains of soldiers from locations around the Pacific Theater—including Guam, Wake Island, and Japanese POW camps—were transported to Hawaii for final interment.
The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (informally known as Punchbowl Cemetery) is a national cemetery located at Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu, Hawaii. It serves as a memorial to honor those men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces, and those who have given their lives in doing so. The first interment was made January 4, 1949.
The cemetery opened to the public on July 19, 1949, with services for five war dead: an unknown serviceman, two Marines, an Army lieutenant and one noted civilian war correspondent Ernie Pyle. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_Cemetery_of_the_Pacific
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Blog: Bill Clinton is an Unusually Good Liar and Hillary is No Slouch
Telling the truth, or not, has turned out to be a leitmotif of this election. "[Bill] Clinton's an unusually good liar," his fellow Democrat (and Hillary endorser) Bob Kerrey said of the president back around the time the First Lady was visiting postwar Bosnia. Thanks to the news footage of her unremarkable, sniper-free landing on the tarmac in Tuzla, we now know that Hillary Clinton is an equally brazen but unusually bad liar. (And her...
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On January 26, 1996, Hillary Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning her investments in Whitewater. This was the first time in American history that a First Lady had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. She testified that they never borrowed any money from the bank, and denied having caused anyone to borrow money on their behalf. Over the course of the investigation, fifteen individuals—including Jim and Susan McDougal, White House counsel Webster Hubbell, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker—were convicted of federal charges. Other than Jim McDougal, none of the convicted agreed to cooperate with the Whitewater investigators, and Clinton pardoned four of them in the final hours of his presidency (see list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton)." Every American who is thinking of voting for Hillary should read the below Wikipidia Article about the White water controversy, the death of Vince Foster (maybe the ultimate victim of the Clinton's self-centered behavior and duplicity, lack of integrity, and questionable financial dealings.
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The Whitewater controversy (also known as the Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater) began with investigations into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
Bernie is unfortunately too decent a guy to go for the jugular and put Hillary away. He should not have let off so easily with her emails and that private server she had, and/or questioned why Sidney Blumenthal had her private email address but her now dead ambassador Stevens in Libya did not and why she was taking advice on foreign Policy from the Ultimate Clinton Insider (and Fixer) with no experience or formal education in Foreign Policy, which is apparently what Sidney Blumental is: "Writing for The Washington Post, reporter Michael Powell described Blumenthal's role thus: "When the White House is backpedaling – a familiar move as the president's libido made a hostage of his administration – Blumenthal is the first to urge aides to man the ramparts, a fire-breathing role taken by Patrick Buchanan in the Reagan administration." During the investigations by White House independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the Grand Jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky." . . . (and) "Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of Bill and Hillary Clinton, earned about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation. During the 2011 uprising in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi, Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos which he sent as emails to Clinton in 2011 and 2012, which she shared through her aide, Jake Sullivan, with senior State Department personnel. In the form of intelligence briefings, the memos sometimes touted his business associates and, at times contained inaccurate information." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal
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Sidney Blumenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sidney Stone Blumenthal (/ˈbluːmənθɔːl/; born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, activist, writer and former political aide. He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant to Hillary Clinton; and a journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He was editor of several departments and wrote for several publications including The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. After 2000, he...