From Politico (Video also available):

Bill Clinton said the news media treated her like she’d “robbed a bank” and claimed she was experiencing end-of-day fatigue, even though she had made the claim in morning speeches.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) acknowledged two weeks ago that she “misspoke” and “made a mistake” in her overly vivid account of the 1996 landing in Tuzla, Bosnia, during a goodwill mission as first lady.

“You know, I got tickled the other day. A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated — and immediately apologized for it — what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995 [sic]. Did y’all see all that? Oh, they blew it up.

“Let me just tell you. The president of Bosnia and General Wesley Clark – who was there making peace where we’d lost three peacekeepers, who had to ride on a dangerous mountain road because it was too dangerous to go the regular, safe way – both defended her because they pointed out that when her plane landed in Bosnia, she had to go up to the bulletproof part of the plane, in the front. Everybody else had to put their flak jackets underneath the seat in case they got shot at. And everywhere they went, they were covered by Apache helicopters. So they just abbreviated the arrival ceremony.

“Now I say that because, what really has mattered is that even then she was interested in our troops. And I think she was the first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone. And you woulda thought, you know, that she’d robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them, when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 at night, too.”

OK lets review this. Senator Clinton said the following:

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.

Now, if she was taken to the bulletproof part of the plane you can give her a little leeway in embellishing the story. Fine, so there might not have actually been fire, but there was the danger of fire. Who knows, maybe someone fired, maybe they didn’t. This is the “I caught a fish THIS big” element.

As far as I have been able to find, no one is standing by her claim that they were running with their heads down. In fact we have evidence otherwise. Also the ceremony was not canceled, OK so maybe it was shortened. Still, two out of those three claims made were false. The other one was an embellishment at best and its a story she told multiple times. Worse for her the video tells a completely opposite tale.

In the end, Clinton used the story as justification of her judgment, experience and commitment to the nation. The story is a fabrication, so I don’t think Bill should be surprised that people are questioning on it.