2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election – IOTW Report

2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

'We should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win'

Observer — […] Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).

“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”

Chomsky recalls being taken aback that “anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections.”

Some eyebrows were also raised when then-Senator Clinton appeared to make a questionable moral equivalency.  MORE

6 Comments on 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

  1. I imagine the room was much like the room where she wondered why Assange couldn’t be droned on his balcony; shock and laughter, followed by “Shit, she’s serious!”

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