WASHINGTON — Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton’s best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of ‘discrepancies’ in her official story. Bernstein, who was played by Dustin Hoffman in the film All the President’s Men, has spent eight years researching the unauthorised 640-page biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. ‘Bernstein reaches conclusions that stand in opposition to what Senator Clinton has said in the past and has written in the past,’ said Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, which publishes the book on June 19. With the thoroughness for which he is famous, Bernstein spoke to more than 200 of Clinton’s friends, colleagues and adversaries. He stops short of accusing the New York senator of blatantly lying about her past, but has unearthed examples of where she has played fast and loose with the facts about her ‘personal and political life’, according to Knopf. The book could revive the explosive charge, made earlier this year by David Geffen, a former Clinton donor and Hollywood mogul, that ‘the Clintons […]