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Date Posted: 17:45:33 04/20/03 Sun
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net / 68.81.153.209
Subject: Speaking of liars and politicians . . . yet I have to applaud Chuck Schumer in this instance. I do remember how moved he was. Too bad he will probably revert.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/20/143224
Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:30 p.m. EDT
Steven Brill: Hillary Fabricated 9/11 Records

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton had her staff fabricate records of meetings and phone calls to familles of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to burnish her image as New York's leading politician on 9/11 issues, the author of a new book on how U.S. officials dealt with the aftermath of the attacks charged Sunday.

"I think [Sen. Clinton] has begun every statement she's ever made in her life about the families of the victims by saying she's met innumerable hours with the families of the victims," Steven Brill, author of the new book "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era," told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.

To support Mrs. Clinton's claims of 9/11 victim service for his book, Brill said her staff tried to persuade him that she worked overtime to help, providing "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story."

But, says the author, "None of it turned out to be true. ... They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened."

Brill, who defended the Clintons throughout the Monica Lewinsky impeachment scandal, said that efforts to mislead him began after the former first lady got word he was writing his 9/11 book. She actually sought him out at the Ground Zero ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the attacks. "I hear you want to talk to me about your book," he recalls her saying.

"We had this discussion which she insisted be off the record," Brill said. But he added, "She did follow up in one non-off-the-record conversation, urging me that the person responsible for aid to New York City was not [Sen.] Chuck Schumer but Hillary Clinton."

Brill said he was astonished that Clinton would go to such lengths to fabricate a phony record of 9/11 service "all in the cause, actually, of shooting down Chuck Schumer getting a bunch of pages in a book."

"It sort of takes your breath away when you think about it," he told Malzberg.

The author detailed the saga of one family in particular, the Cartiers, who lost a relative in the Twin Towers collapse.

"This family had tried repeatedly to get Hillary Clinton to meet with them," Brill said. "And always the staff said: 'Write up a memo. We don't meet with any families unless they write to us first and tell us what they want to meet about.'"

"They said to me, the Cartiers - and these are not, you know, people who are political - that the only time families can meet with Hillary Clinton is if it's at a press conference."

Meanwhile, said Brill, Sen. Schumer took time out on a Sunday to meet with the Cartiers - "no reporters, no cameras, no nothing."

The former publisher of "Brill's Content" magazine said that then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Schumer worked to give the Cartier family access to Ground Zero and to Fresh Kills, the Staten Island recovery site, so they could search for their relative's remains.

The former Clinton defender also cast doubt on the authenticity of an account offered by Chelsea Clinton, who told reporters after the attacks that she was so close to the Twin Towers collapse that she feared for her life.

"There are people on Schumer's staff who say that Chelsea kept moving south [toward Ground Zero] the more the press kept reporting that [Schumer's daughter Jessica] really was at Stuyvesant High School," just five blocks away from Ground Zero, he said.

Of Sen. Clinton's attempts to garner praise for helping 9/11 victims, Brill said, "What stunned me is that one person would try to steal away the credit from the other person, especially when everything I was hearing from the families is that Schumer" had helped far more.

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[> So, what else is new? Of course, based on Hillary's past behavior I have not doubt that she is positioning for praise that she did not earn and does not deserve. I do believe that she has a fetish for being in front of the cameras in on the front page of the newspaper and television news. She would run down a group of kindergarten students crossing the street at a controlled intersection in order to get herself before the press to make create a press opportunity for herself. -- William, 19:51:27 04/20/03 Sun (cache-dl04.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.40)

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[> No surprises here. Scum is as scum does. The Klintoon disgrace and deception still attempts to carry the day, but now it is seen for what is truly is. The legacy of Vince 'Three Shots to the Back of the Head Suicide' Foster lingers. Little changes with these vermin. -- JL, 23:08:46 04/21/03 Mon (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> [> Unfortunately, knee-jerk liberals still think Gore should have won the election, don't understand the role of the Supreme Court, have been trained to parrot that anything Conservative is bad, won't question for themselves but will buy any false argument placed before them for anything, and have very short memories. Most still think the dislike for Clinton was "about sex." No matter how m any times he put our national securioty in jeopardy. A few former liberals/Democrats have awakened, but I fear too many stupid people out there. Ever watch the show "Street Smarts?" Pretty scarey stuff. -- SurveyGuy, 19:54:13 04/22/03 Tue (pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net/68.81.153.209)

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[> [> [> Although there are certainly 'knee jerks' on both sides, the absolute unquestioning loyalty of leftists to the corruption and (continued) deceit is just amazing. They will try and try, but will not be allowed to re-write history. -- JL, 20:44:52 04/23/03 Wed (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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