UPDATED: Clinton: It 'Had To Be' Ukraine Separatists Who Shot Down The Plane

[MADem]

48. I make it a gender thing because no one would say a word if John Kerry or

Henry Kissinger said the same exact words. When it comes to Clinton, though, the knives are out.

And gee, I guess she may well have been speaking as a consequence of the courtesy briefings that former POTUS's/SECSTATES/SECDEFS and other key cabinet officials get when the shit hits the fan somewhere.

But hey, it's just so easy to take digs at "that woman." I see it here incessantly.

I point it out when I see it.

If you don't like that, too bad.

Jetliner Explodes Over Ukraine; Struck by Missile, Officials Say


GRABOVO, Ukraine — A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 298 people aboard exploded, crashed and burned on a flowered wheat field Thursday in a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists, blown out of the sky at 33,000 feet by what Ukrainian and American officials described as a Russian-made antiaircraft missile.

Ukraine accused the separatists of carrying out what it called a terrorist attack. American intelligence and military officials said the plane had been destroyed by a Russian SA-series missile, based on surveillance satellite data that showed the final trajectory and impact of the missile but not its point of origin.

There were strong indications that those responsible may have errantly downed what they had thought was a military aircraft only to discover, to their shock, that they had struck a civilian airliner. Everyone aboard was killed, their corpses littered among wreckage that smoldered late into the summer night....Adding to Ukrainian and Western suspicions that pro-Russia separatists were culpable, Ukraine’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service, known as the S.B.U., released audio from what it said were intercepted phone calls between separatist rebels and Russian military intelligence officers on Thursday. In the audio, the separatists appeared to acknowledge shooting down a civilian plane.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sent reporters a link to the edited audio of the calls, with English subtitles, posted on YouTube by the S.B.U.

According to a translation of the Russian audio by the English-language Kyiv Post, the recording begins with a separatist commander, identified as Igor Bezler, telling a Russian military intelligence official, “We have just shot down a plane.”....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/malaysian-airlines-plane-ukraine.html