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Hillary: Where were you at 3 a.m. July 18, 1996?
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 Hillary: Where were you at 3 a.m. July 18, 1996?
By Jack CashillPredictably, Hillary, when the National Archives released 11,000 pages of your schedule as first lady, the media focused on the unenlightening and the inconsequential.
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By Jack CashillPredictably, Hillary, when the National Archives released 11,000 pages of your schedule as first lady, the media focused on the unenlightening and the inconsequential.Where were you when Bill soiled Monica's blue dress? Where were you when Bill was impeached? When did you first start work on health care reform?But Hillary, there is one question that needs to be asked, one that cuts right to your own claim to the presidency: Where were you at 3 a.m. on the morning of July 18, 1996?In the ad that helped you win the Texas primary, a hushed male voice solemnly observes, "It is 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there is a phone in the White House and it is ringing."The announcer continues, "Something is happening in the world" asking the listener, "Who do you want answering the phone?"The answer, of course, is you, Hillary, "someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world."In fact, as your schedule reveals, you once found yourself in exactly that position. So please, why not share that experience with the world?To refresh your memory, on the night of July 17, 1996, you and Bill attended a gala for the Women's Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee at the Sheraton Washington Hotel.After working the rope line, at 8:35 p.m. you and Bill left the Sheraton by presidential motorcade.At 8:31 p.m., however, a few hundred miles away, that hot line was about to start ringing.Two FAA veterans at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center had observed a target arching and intersecting with TWA Flight 800 as it headed east off Long Island's south shore.The controllers reported what they saw immediately. A manager from that center rushed the radar data to the FAA technical center in Atlantic City for further spam.In Atlantic City, a playback of the data was recorded on videotape and plotted onto paper. From there, it was faxed to FAA headquarters in Washington and rushed "immediately" to the White House."Holy c--, this looks bad," said Ron Schleede of the National Transportation Safety Board upon first seeing the data that "suggested something fast made the turn and took the airplane."Obama man Richard Clarke got the message, too. By 9 p.m., he was driving in to the White House to convene a meeting of his security group.As you know, he did not call such a meeting after the ValuJet crash two months earlier. Clarke was clearly worried."I dreaded what I thought was about to happen," he told us in "Against All Enemies," "The Eisenhower option."Had Iran been behind the downing of TWA Flight 800 - or Iraq for that matter - the president would have had to respond. In fact, Clarke labeled this chapter of his book, "The Almost War, 1996."You and Bill arrived at the White House at 8:45 p.m. You were still likely unaware of the incident when you retired to the family residence.Curiously, when Bill did find out about the disaster, he chose not to join Clarke and the other agency representatives in the White House situation room.He remained holed up in the family quarters with you. Did he stay there because he needed you by his side during this crisis?Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson and others have confirmed that the president kept to the family quarters.
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