Was Sinbad Right?

The Clinton campaign says that Hillary Clinton may have misspoken last week when she recalled arriving on a trip to Bosnia in 1996 to sniper fire.

Clinton said, “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.”

You'll recall that Sinbad, who was part of the delegation on the trip, challenged Clinton's account that the trip was a dangerous mission. He told the Washington Post, “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.”

But there's also been a YouTube video of a CBS News broadcast from 1996 that shows Clinton's arrival, to no sign of sniper fire, along with visits elsewhere in the region. (And yes, there is a brief glimpse of Sinbad joking with a soldier about his haircut).

According to the New York Times, spokesman Howard Wolfson said today, “It is possible in the most recent instance in which she discussed this that she misspoke in regard to the exit from the plane, but there is no question if you look at contemporaneous accounts that she was going to a potential combat zone, that she was on the front lines.”