Hillary Docs: Many Overseas Trips Just Standard First Lady Tourist Fare

[RamboLiberal]

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But the daily schedules released today show many of her overseas trips to be the standard first lady tourist fare, hospital visits and blinis with caviar.

On the day U.S. cruise missiles hit Serbia, the schedules show the former first lady was touring Egyptian ruins.

On the day when her husband announced attacks against al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, the schedules show she stayed in Martha's Vineyard on vacation.

"They need to be a lot more open. We need to see memoranda of conversations; we need to see decision memos," Sally Bedell Smith, author of "For Love of Politics – Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years" and contributing editor to "Vanity Fair," told ABC News.

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On Dec. 7, 2000, the former first lady's schedule lists all private White House meetings with no names attached.

It was the very time her two brothers and others were trying to broker pardons for convicted drug dealers and billionaire fugitive Marc Rich.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4484076&page=1

[TwilightGardener]

1. The pardons--very, very disturbing behavior, her brothers peddling their access to

the President--for money, apparently. Pardons for sale! She should be too ashamed to run for President.

[tekisui]

2. Too ashamed to run for President?

She knows that is where the money is!

[TwilightGardener]

4. That's true--and you can't expect shame from the shameless.

The Clintons have profited mightily from his Presidency, in ways that aren't going to look good in October if the GOP has their way and she's the nominee.

[babylonsister]

3. A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule (all 9 hours of it)

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/03/19/clinton_bosnia/

A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule

As proof of her national security credentials, Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have repeatedly emphasized a dangerous March 1996 voyage she made to Bosnia.

All nine hours of it.

This Bosnia name-dropping occurred most recently on Monday, in a speech about national security issues at George Washington University. Togo West, former secretary of the Army, mentioned the trip when he introduced the New York senator, claiming that the Secret Service "would not allow" then President Bill Clinton to go to Bosnia because of the danger. Hillary Clinton went instead. West called it a "serious trip under serious circumstances."

"I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia," Clinton said when she began her speech. "And as Togo said, there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor or too dangerous, the president couldn't go. So send the first lady," she recalled. "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Imagine the importance of such an adventure, since Clinton and her aides still bring it up with such emphasis 12 years later. And imagine how intense it must have been to make such a lasting impression on Clinton -- particularly since the entire trip was scheduled to last for exactly nine hours.

On Wednesday, the National Archives released 11,046 pages of Clinton's schedule as first lady. These include her schedule for March 25, 1996, during her one-day trip to Bosnia.

Clinton was set to land at Tuzla Air Base at 8:45 a.m. And if a sniper was about, it's a good thing the welcome ceremony was canceled, since it included U.S. ambassador John Menzies, a seventh-grade class and an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who was supposed to read Clinton a poem.

She did then go to a meeting with Acting President Ejup Ganic, which lasted 10 minutes. This was followed by a "roundtable discussion" moderated by Menzies from 9:35 to 10:45. Clinton was then supposed to meet with some nongovernmental organizations for 30 minutes.

She then received a very important-sounding "Task Force Eagle" briefing. It lasted 15 minutes. Next, Clinton got an hourlong tour of a military camp, lunch with the troops and a second hourlong tour of another military camp. (Travel between locations took some time, too.)

By 3:45 it was time for a show for the troops back at Tuzla, with entertainment provided by singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad. Her flight was set to leave at 5:45 p.m.

In a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson recommended that reporters "not view these schedules as a comprehensive compendium of every minute of Senator Clinton's time as first lady." He called the records "an idea of a number of activities in which she participated, but you're not going to see every single event in which she was involved, the impromptu phone call or running into somebody in the hallway."
― Mark Benjamin

[TwilightGardener]

5. LOL! She did really important stuff, but you don't see it...but it's there...trust us.

[CoffeeCat]

6. I've always thought that the real damage of her...

...WH records would be the lackluster information.

There's going to be no "smoking gun" or some shocking discovery, "Hillary mashed
with Stephanopolis in the linen closet."

The reason the Clintons dragged their feet on this, is because the records clearly
show the records of Fluffy Muffinstuff--The White House Tourist.

Hillary's entire campaign is propped up by her "35 years of experience" meme.

When those records reveal that she "toured ruins" and ate canapes with the other
wives of world leaders--it sort of diminishes her "red phone" argument.

The media has never really challenged what exactly she did during these 35 years
of supposed Presidential training. The Clintons know that the release of those
records will spark that discussion--and then people will see her lightweight activities
and begin asking why lunching with Chelsea in Rome makes her more experienced and
prepared to be President, than Obama.

[BuyingThyme]

7. People are overplaying this hand.

Most of her husband's appearances were just as "ceremonial."

[blm]

8. Gee, why would Hillary want IranContra and BCCI operative Marc Rich pardoned?

Just because Rose Law Firm where she worked had Jackson Stephens as its bggest client - the Jackson Stephens who BROUGHT the terrorist bank BCCI into this country in the first place and had many of his dealings for Poppy Bush done out of that bank. The Clintons CAREERS were bankrolled by Jackson Stephens and his primary race was underwritten by Stephens.

Those who stick their heads in the sand and claim Hillary couldn't have known all the dirty dealings about BCCI and Stephens and pardons for Rich are DUPES - easily snookered by Clintons, just as Bushes snooker their faithful.

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

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