Was Hillary Clinton lying about whether she knew about her campaign planting questions?

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Poll question: Was Hillary Clinton lying about whether she knew about her campaign planting questions?

I was reading the NYT this morning where the issue about the campaign getting staff to have people be plants in the crowd and ask questions to the Senator.

In the article, this is reported about whether Senator Clinton knew about the questions being proposed by the staff:

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to reporters in Iowa, said she was unaware that her aides had ever planted questions.

“It was news to me,” said Mrs. Clinton, of New York, “and neither I nor my campaign approve of that, and it will certainly not be tolerated.”

Actually, her campaign admitted to such a tactic. Later in the article, one of the people who the campaign asked to have a question for the Senator reported this and the action was noted at this event “...they wanted a question from a college student,” Gallo-Chasanoff said. She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her:

In a question-and-answer session with the audience, Mrs. Clinton called on several people with raised hands; some of them asked friendly questions about policy, and one man pressed her on trade issues.

At one point Mrs. Clinton called on Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff, who asked for the senator’s ideas for combating global warming.

Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff did not return phone messages over the weekend seeking comment. But the Grinnell College newspaper reported her as saying that the Clinton aide told her the campaign wanted a question from a college student, and that campaign staff members had prompted Mrs. Clinton to call on her.

Is Hillary Clinton lying about whether she knew about the practice of planting questions in the crowd?