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Wash Post Gives Clinton Tale 'Four Pinocchios,' Obama Camp Pounces

<i>Wash Post</i> Gives Clinton Tale 'Four Pinocchios,' Obama Camp Pounces
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Hillary Clinton's dramatic telling of her trip to Tuzla has for months caused snickering and eye-rolling among reporters, but today the Washington Post takes the time to truth-squad the story, a convenient development for the Obama campaign, which spent a morning conference call questioning Clinton's relationship with the truth and her electability.

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