2) A particularly brazen lie was Clinton’s claim that her intervention in the Copenhagen IPCC convention forced China to come to the table to negotiate stronger limits on greenhouse emissions.  In fact,  Rather than achieving a deal, the Obama administration played a leading role in scuttling any possibility for binding limits, according to virtually all environmental organizations in attendance who described the meeting as “a major disappointment”,  and a “huge failure” as “Hopenhagen became Nopenhagen”, in the words of Mark Hertsgaard.

3) Among the more surreal of the evening’s exchanges involved Clinton  divesting “the big banks” of responsibility for the financial crisis shifting the blame to the defunct firms AIG and Lehman Brothers and unnamed “shadow banks”. According to Matt Taibbi these claims would be dismissed as “laughable (by) people in the industry.” But, as Taibbi notes “that’s probably the point – that the average voter won’t know how absurd and desperate it is to point to faceless ‘shadow’ financiers as villains when the real bad guys are famed mega-firms that are right out in the open”, many of them Hillary main campaign contributors.”  Or at least it won’t be known given the lack of interest mainstream reporters have shown in exposing this an other egregious lies.

4) Clinton suggested that rather than fleeing prosecution Edward Snowden should have returned home to “face the music” since “He could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower.” Again, likely a fully conscious and transparent lie. As Politifact noted, that Snowden would be protected is demonstrably false since he would have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act thereby exempting him from whistle blower status.