Harry Wu, the Chinese dissident, is disputing passages from “Living History,” including ones that were censored in China. He contends the former first lady exaggerated her role in winning his freedom.
Mr.Wu told The New York Sun he believes Mrs.Clinton overstated her influence on China’s decision to release him on August 24, 1995, creating what he calls a false impression that she was at the “center of everything.”
In his view,Mrs.Clinton saw him as an obstacle in the way of her participation at the U.N. women’s conference, which was jeopardized by his detainment.
“She never said,‘I am very concerned about Harry Wu’s fate.’ She never cared.” said Mr.Wu, who spent 19 years in a Chinese labor camp before moving to America in 1985. A naturalized citizen,he now heads the Washington,D.C.-based Laogai Research Foundation.
One of the censored passages from her book refers to an August 9 letter that Mr. Wu’s wife, Ching-Lee Wu, sent to Mrs. Clinton, urging her not to attend the U.N. conference.
Mrs. Clinton wrote that the letter “troubled” her. Mr. Wu says it was ignored.
“The letter was the kind of wife-towife, woman-to-woman, written with tears from a distraught woman begging another powerful woman for help,” Mr. Wu said. “My wife never received a word from Mrs. Clinton.”
Mr. Wu does give the Clinton Administration credit for his release, but he doesn't credit Hillary personally for it.
Mr. Wu said his freedom hinged on other factors, including statements from the Clinton administration that it would block a meeting between President Clinton and President Zemin until he was released.
The problem Hillary has writing a book like this is that she has no real personal accomplishments. Her gains have always been those attached to her husband. Her Presidential ambitions are a tightrope of being her own woman and at the same time not outwardly saying that Bill won't actually be making the decisions if you elect her.
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