Remember this iconic photo?
Back in 2011, it was assumed that Hillary was transfixed by something she saw, in real time, in the Osama Bin Laden raid.
But maybe Hillary is actually telling the truth here: She said it might have been a coughing spell.
Via CBS News.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she has “no idea” what she was looking at when a photographer snapped the now-iconic image of her, President Obama, and other top national security officials during a Situation Room briefing on the Osama bin Laden raid – but she suspects her expressive demeanor in the photograph may have had less to do with national security than one might think.
“I am somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs,” she told reporters in Rome on Thursday. “So, it may have no great meaning whatsoever.”
The arresting photograph, taken by White House photographer Pete Souza while Mr. Obama and his national security team monitored the tense military operation that resulted in bin Laden’s death, depicts Clinton staring intently ahead, her hand covering her mouth….
“The Hillary Clinton expression is the one that holds the photograph fully,” said Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography. “The reaction of her hand over her face. Her eyes. Clearly, she’s reacting to something she’s watching.”
“To me, the whole image is about Hillary,” Pollack added. “In some ways, she holds the image. You look at her first, and then you look at everyone else.”….
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Maybe she was thinking of Bill, Huma and Carlos Danger. It would certainly cause a strange expression upon my face, perhaps even a gag reflex reaction with my hand