Hillary Clinton's Excellent Balkan Adventure

I've posted an item or two on Hillary's "arrival under sniper fire" story before, but now the situation is completely unraveling. Despite continually repeating the story of her harrowing airport arrival, the Clinton campaign has been forced to admit that they have badly mischaracterized the story, according to the Washington Post Fact Checker:

"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."
--Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."

There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.

Read the rest of the Fact Checker report for all the details and the campaign's weak response, but here's the conclusion of the investigation:

The Pinocchio Test
Clinton's tale of landing at Tuzla airport "under sniper fire" and then running for cover is simply not credible. Photographs and video of the arrival ceremony, combined with contemporaneous news reports, tell a very different story. Four Pinocchios.

The story was especially hard to believe since she took her daughter Chelsea on this trip. I doubt a mom would willingly fly their kids into a situation in which they could be picked off by a sniper.

UPDATE: CBS blows Clinton's story: