Can Hillary's response really be taken at face value?

Tapper has more:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4757257&page=1

So Bill Clinton did something that protected the "U.S. high-performance magnet industry" while tossing ordinary workers under the bus. Thanks for the clarification, Clintons.

There was no such "condition." There was simply a "promise" to give them political cover. The Clinton folks were sophisticated enough at the time to know that such a promise means nothing in legal terms.

More Clintonian bullshit.
Anyone surprised?

Obama needs to string together this with the Colombia double talk, her various versions of NAFTA support/non-support, and slam the crap out of her with some factual but negative ads over the next 3-4 days. End this thing.

w does enforce any deals on free trade or outsourcing.

Its a free for all in corporate governing.

Imagine that, Hillary Clinton is lying on the campaign trail again.

I wish someone would just have the guts to say it. Hillary Clinton is a L-I-A-R.

NAFTA/CAFTA/Colombia/Mark Penn/Bill Clinton.

Jeez, How could a candidate, with such a conflict of interests, could lie so brazenly and not called out by the media ? WTF is the matter with them ?

Paging idiotic...

"1. 1995 agreement was premised on agreement that jobs and production would remain in the United States.

David Cay Johnston: Clinton administration imposed condition 'that the new owners keep magnet production and technology in the United States.' [Free Lunch, pp. 38-39]

Evan Bayh: Investors in 1995 'promised to maintain U.S. production of the magnets.' “The U.S. high-performance magnet industry has been hit hard in recent years by China' efforts to dominate the market. Five years ago, the state lost more than 225 jobs when Chinese investors moved the operations of Indiana-based Magnaquench to China. Magnaquench, which had operations in Valparaiso and Anderson, was originally purchased in 1995 by a group of investors that included two Chinese companies. The investors promised to maintain U.S. production of the magnets but in 2003 backed out on that promise." [Press Release, 3/10/08]

2. 2003, President Bush failed to use his authority to block the movement of jobs and production overseas.

Bayh and Visclosky sought help from Bush Administration to halt the closing. “In September of 2003, Magnaquench was in the process of closing down their Indiana production plant, with intentions of moving operations to China, and headquarters to Singapore. This move is of particular interest to homeland security because this plant made 80% of the rare-earth magnets used in the construction of U.S. “smart bombs”. Democratic Representative Pete Visclosky and Senator Evan Bayh have been attempting to gain support from President Bush to halt the closing, citing national security concerns.” [Melanie Goodman, 6/16/04]

Bayh: 2003 decision 'raised new questions' about national security concerns because the jobs would be transferred. “We understand that CFIUS approved both the 1995 purchase of Magnequench by a consortium that included two Chinese companies and Magnequench's acquisition of the Valparaiso facility in 2000. However, the potential transfer of these operations to China raises new questions about maintaining both a significant source of domestic production of rare-earth magnets and U.S. technological leadership for these critical production technologies.” [Bayh letter to Bush, 3/6/03]

Bush Administration 'offered no response' to Congressional inquiries in 2003. “Then, when the Chinese owners in 2003 shut down Magnequench's Valparaiso, Ind. production plant and moved equipment to China, CFIUS offered no response when Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) requested an inquiry. Bayh became concerned that the Chinese might corner the market on a sensitive military technology. Defense Department contacts informed his staff that Magnequench provided 80 percent of the guidance magnets used in smart bombs. Still, CFIUS refused to provide information about its Magnequench review despite requests from Bayh and from two key Senate committees: the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees CFIUS, according to a former Senate aide who sought to contact CFIUS.” [Chicago Tribune, July 9, 2005]"

gop trolls.

But... but... she was against at the time! Yes, when she wasn't busy privately railing against NAFTA while publicly supporting it, she was begging Bill not to let the sale go through. Honest! Or she just didn't know anything about that. Just like the controversial pardons. She didn't know. Honest.

She was deeply involved in the Clinton Administration and gets credit for everything that was good in the United States from 1992 to 2000! Except for the things that we're not happy about now. She had nothing to do with those.

Why are you asking her all these questions? Negative campaigning! Wahhhhhh! Why aren't you people talking about Rev. Wright?

Poor gotnolife.

It still can't add 2 + 2, it seems.

After Tuesday's elections, Obama's pledge delegate lead have increased.

And most already know supers aren't going to overturn anything.

They're just riding it out until the end to keep people like you from having their heads explode.

And THIS story is being totally ignored by the media -- reverend wright and Obama are much more important then any work place and JOBS being lost.

Dam the media for ignoring REAL news.

I will miss the Clintons. They are destructive, but oh, so entertaining.

Even my 92 year old grandfather realizes "the Clintons are liars" and this is from a lifelong Democrat who has lived a very long time.

Why does a large peice of the American public keep on giving the Clintons passes on this?

Liar liar, pants suit on fire!!!

Got a life, where are you when we need to pillory (Hilaty) something?

well, so a company filled with a bunch of deadbeat Hoosiers is closed down and sold to more efficient owners, who happen to be Chinese?

And you people call me a racist, for observing that affirmative action is a senseless and counterproducitve social policy, but you all squawk that precious "American" assets are being sold to dirty slanty-eyed Chinks. Same as you think that obeying the NAFTA treaty means, among other things, letting dirty smelly drunk Spic truck drivers on our roads (the theme of a recent Teamsters PR campaign).