Sheryl Crow was manning the tail gun, and Chelsea was readying Sinbad to be heaved out the back

As we reported several days ago- simply passing along the reporting of the Washington Post- as bloggers are wont to do- the she-Clinton has been caught flat-footed lying about her foreign policy trip to the Balkans. She claimed her plane was subjected to sniper fire, she was pulled up into the cockpit, her fellow diplomatists were told to sit on their bulletproof vests, they landed and had to sprint to their vehicles, the ceremony on the tarmac had to be cancelled-

Well, the whole story turns out to be a bunch of codswallop.

So out, yesterday, came the she-Clinton's noted literary critic, Howard Wolfson, to say she might have misspoken parts of her Perils of Pauline narrative. Later, Politico has it:

Clinton to Philly Daily News: I "misspoke" in prepared remarks about Bosnia landing

Her campaign spokesman conceded the point this morning, and she met later in the day with the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer, where she was grilled by columnist Will Bunch:

Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Hillary Clinton came to the Daily News and Inquirer building here in Philadelphia -- where she's seeking the Daily News editorial board endorsement -- and I had a chance to ask her about a controversy that's increasingly dogged her campaign the last few days: Whether she misrepresented the danger of her March 1996 trip to a U.S. military base in Bosnia in an effort to boost her foreign policy credentials.

Clinton acknowledged today for the first time that it was a "misstatement" when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that "I remember landing under sniper fire" but also tried to brush off the entire issue as "a minor blip." She also gave a revised account of her airplane landing and her tarmac greeting at the Tuzla Air Force base 12 years ago -- seeking to explain a picture re-published this weekend in the Washington Post showing her and daughter Chelsea calmly greeting an 8-year-old girl.

In her speech last week at George Washington University, Clinton maintained "[t]here was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. Today, she told our group at the Daily News that she was informed that we "had to meet this 8-year-old girl," so "I took her stuff and left."