2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Oops! The White House Just Called Hillary Out! Caught in a lie? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)It's in my post #90: two clips of the White House Press Secretary saying that the text has not been released.
Now, he didn't say, "The text has not been publicly released, nor have we sent Secretary Clinton her own private advance copy." Nevertheless, his statements came in responses to two questions that specifically mentioned Hillary Clinton's comment. It would be absolutely astounding if she had been sent an advance copy and Josh Earnest didn't mention it in this context. The natural reading of his statements, to any fair-minded person not engaged in special pleading on behalf of a candidate, is that Clinton is among those who don't have the final text.
There's also the matter that she publicly came out in opposition within a day after the finalization of the proposed agreement. It's simply not credible to think that the White House rushed her an advance copy AND she immediately mastered hundreds of pages of highly specialized text, immediately assessed how it would assess the U.S. economy over an enormous range of issues, and made a decision.
I can't prove she didn't do it. You probably can't prove she wasn't waiting outside the Watergate, keeping the engine running in the getaway car, and saved her own hide when she realized McCord had been busted. But no sensible person would believe either of these stories, at least without good evidence.