This is from a piece in todays OpinionJournal.com, the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal’s web site: Hillary Confesses. Last week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stood on the steps of the New York City Hall to blast the Bush Administration over a report from the inspector general of the Environmental Protection agency alleging that the Administration convinced the EPA to issue reports claiming that the air quality in lower Manhatten after September 11 was better than it actually was. Hillary was certain the Administration had covered up the actual air quality.

She said: “What transpired in the White House? I know a little bit about how White Houses work. I know somebody picked up a phone, somebody got on a computer, somebody sent an e-mail, somebody called for a meeting, somebody, probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain, told the EPA, ‘Don’t tell the people of New York the truth,’ and I want to know who that is.”

If you want to see a video stream of Hillary speaking those words, visit THIS PAGE ON THE NY1 WE SITE. The clip is 2:40 long, with Ms. Clinton’s admission beginning at 1:12 and ending at 1:34 of the clip. Warning: She seems pretty upset when accusing the Bush White House of doing what she and her husband did for eight years.

That is how things were handled in the Clinton White House, anyway. She has admitted that they routinely lied to cover up their misdeeds. How many of those phone calls she described did she herself make? Did Vince Foster answer?

From the OpinionJournal piece:

This, of course, comes from the same woman who as First Lady thought it understandable that her long-subpoenaed records could suddenly materialize in a room right next to her White House study. “I think people need to understand that there are millions of pieces of paper in the White House,” she told Barbara Walters at the time, “and for more than two years now people have been diligently searching.”

Recall that she also dismisses the collection of hundreds of FBI files of Bush and Reagan appointees as a “bureaucratic snafu” by innocent newcomers “who did not recognize the mistake.” And who can forget her classic disavowal of any responsibility for the sacking of staffers in the White House Travel Office?

Some people still take this woman seriously as a possible Presidential candidate, in 2004 or 2008. I think she will be fortunate to keep her Senate seat in 2006 against a strong Republican challenger. (Yes, my thinking includes, but is not limited to, Rudy Giuliani.)