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  • 2016-09-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Hillary Clinton Seriously Injured in a Secret Plane Crash? (en)
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  • Back at the end of 2012, the notorious conspiracy-mongering WhatDoesItMean.com web site published a fabricated article holding that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed, when her military plane crashed while she was on a secret mission to Iran to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: As usual, this was just more of the typical WhatDoesItMean.com conspiracy nuttery, spun around the recent tragic suicide of Commander Job W. Price, the 42-year-old leader of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 4, who had killed himself with a pistol while deployed in Afghanistan a few days earlier. And, as usual, the equally notorious and unreliable (but more professional looking) conspiracy-mongering European Union Times web site reprinted WhatDoesItMean.com's fabricated article about the secret plane crash. The European Union Times' version of the fake article gained enough traction that it was eventually shared by a few U.S. military personnel and U.S. Department of State staffers via e-mail, prompting some confusion and chuckles among its recipients: That likely would have been the end of this fake article's brief lifespan, except for the fact that its having been forwarded via the Department of State's e-mail system meant it ended up being included among the archive of 30,322 e-mails sent to and from Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State that were released online by WikiLeaks on 16 March 2016. Shortly after Hillary Clinton collapsed at 9/11 memorial service and spurred the renewal of rumors that she was suffering from, and concealing, a major medical ailment (purportedly of a neurological nature), several fringe political sites picked up on the confluence of the 2012 article's having recently appeared in a State Dept. e-mail leak and ran with the notion that the original four-year-old WhatDoesItMean.com fake news piece was true, that it proved that Clinton was covering up a serious plane crash injury that had left her unconscious and bleeding profusely, and that all of this had been verified by WikiLeaks: As we noted at the head of this article, the fantastic secret plane crash tale was a complete fabrication, and it appeared on WikiLeaks only because some State Department staffers had forwarded the article among themselves via-email. The article's supposed bombshell contents originated with (and were reported by no source other than) WhatDoesItMean.com, of whom RationalWiki says: Whatdoesitmean.com actively advanced many invented Clinton conspiracy theories in mid-2016, including fabricated claims that hacker Guccifer, Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich, UN official John Ashe, and the father of a physician purportedly responsible for leaking Hillary Clinton's (falsified) health records were murdered by her shadowy operatives. The bulk of the site's conspiracies are built upon actual events or tragedies (such as the deaths of Rich and Ashe) and layered with baseless embellishments. (en)
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