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"Hillary Clinton's bizarre -- and false -- sniper fire claim is starting to cause her campaign problems.
Howard Wolfson, Clinton's PR flack, now says she "misspoke" when claiming to have been under enemy sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia.
Bluntly: that's bull. Misspeaking is the act of saying something other than what you meant.
The truth is that the Clinton campaign is completely freaked out that this will sink her campaign.
As ABC News senior national correspondent Claire Shipman said on This Week with George Stephanopolous, Clinton's sniper claim claim will "get her into trouble."
On at least two different occasions -- one of them after being pressed by a reporter on her recollection, given Sinbad's different point of view -- Clinton deliberately said that there was no greeting ceremony due to the dangerous conditions and that she was rushed from the plane to waiting vehicles.
No such thing occurred. Why did she make her false statement? Poor memory? Confusion? A deliberate attempt to mislead? Who knows. Whatever the case, it's clear that she said what she meant to say.
This wasn't a just a simple slip of the tongue. Her initial speech and subsequent discussions with reporters clearly reflect an effort to make her mission seem dangerous.
She repeated her remarks, even when challenged by the media (and Sinbad).
In defending her tale, she arranged for third-party validation from both Togo West, the Clinton Administration Secretary of the Army, and Lissa Muscatine, a Clinton speechwriter.
Only after video emerged disproving her assertions and threatening a political firestorm did she start trying to pass her false claim off as simply "misspeaking."