Hillary Clinton challenger KT McFarland Inflated resume

NY TImes ^ | 3.23.06 | Ray hernandez

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March 23, 2006 G.O.P. Challenger to Clinton Inflated Résumé, Records and Interviews Suggest

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

When Kathleen Troia McFarland stepped forward as a Republican challenger to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, she was a relatively obscure figure with two intriguing claims to fame: She had worked on President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech and had been the highest-ranking woman at the Reagan Pentagon.

But interviews with former Reagan administration officials and a review of documents show her claims were not entirely accurate. Though she helped write the "Star Wars" speech, its most famous passage — the one that announced the anti-ballistic missile program — was actually written by the president himself and his top national security advisers, according to two senior advisers to Mr. Reagan and a review of the literature and news articles of the period.

And while Ms. McFarland, who is known as K. T., was a close confidante of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, serving as his speechwriter and spokeswoman for several years, there were two women with higher ranks in the Pentagon during virtually her entire time there, according to information provided by the Pentagon and the McFarland campaign.

Ms. McFarland's biography has already emerged as an issue in the Republican primary. Her rival, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, has asserted that she inflated her position by claiming that she held the equivalent civilian rank of a three-star general while in the Pentagon. Ms. McFarland's campaign said that she had claimed only to be the civilian equivalent of "a two-and-a-half-star general." In a recent interview, Ms. McFarland said she had never claimed authorship for the section of the "Star Wars" speech announcing the President's Strategic Defense Initiative, a passage known among Reagan advisers as "the insert."

[ncountylee]

The NY TIMES protects the beast.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I didnt read the article, but if she did inflate her resume then she shot herself in the foot. But like I said, I didnt read the article.

[GEC]

exactly.

This isn't even a non-story.

[Fintan]

Okay, so a liar is running against a liar.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Hillary's resume is quite inflated... She was an attorney who married well... She became Senator of NY State because she married well.... what has she EVER accomplished? A whole lot of Nothing!

[martin_fierro]

She also claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary -- years before anyone had heard of him.

[Rokke]

"I didnt read the article"

That's because like millions of other Americans, you realize the NYT's is not worth your time. The chances that anything you read is actually accurate are slim to none, so why bother.

[Sans-Culotte]

As Rush says, when reading an article in the N.Y. Slimes: "What if this were really true!?"

[Bahbah]

She was an attorney who married well

It depends on what one means by "marrying well."

[STARWISE]

Why is this in breaking news?

[divine_moment_of_facts]

"It depends on what one means by "marrying well."

marrying someones who's coattails she could ride is what i should have said. heh

[Don Carlos]

But, but, but, she was one of the top 100 lawyers in Little Rock. She is the smartest woman in the world. Ok, so she may embellish a little now and then ...

[demkicker]

I didnt read the article, but if she did inflate her resume then she shot herself in the foot. But like I said, I didnt read the article.

As a professional recruiter, I'm here to tell you that everyone "inflates" their resumes to some degree. This is pure nit picky b.s. and an obvious hit piece by the NY Times.

If they had any desire to seek the truth about any candidate for public office, the NY Times would have long ago published Hillary Clinton's college thesis. That one paper alone would have been the end of her.

[RckyRaCoCo]

them FBI file suuure come in handy

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Amen

[Brian Allen]

<< Hillary .... was an attorney who married well >>

????

Care to rethink that suggestion?

BUMPping

[goodnesswins]

Well...gee....looks like she's fighting FAIR then......LOL

[Echo Talon]

She had worked on President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech and had been the highest-ranking woman at the Reagan Pentagon.

But interviews with former Reagan administration officials and a review of documents show her claims were not entirely accurate. Though she helped write the "Star Wars" speech, its most famous passage — the one that announced the anti-ballistic missile program — was actually written by the president himself and his top national security advisers, according to two senior advisers to Mr. Reagan and a review of the literature and news articles of the period.

WTF! NYT's? what is this? Is this a parody?

[Dr.Syn]

Yes...and along with this we can also be certain that Al Gore invented the internet and the Moon is made out of green cheese. It must be true if the Slimes says so because their track record has been so accurate. Talk about liars!