Bill Clinton: reflecting on his failures to do anything meaningful about Osama bin Laden, or just smelling his fingers?
Story here.
More stuff the MSM didn't really tell us about former president Clinton's foreknowledge of the threats from Osama Bin Laden and his chickening out at the prospect of an almost-certain bullseye hit on the arch-jihadist. (I don't recall seeing this stuff in the MSM. If it was reported, it was done so so quietly and unnoticeably and so little as to be practically a non-reporting, particularly since the information at the link is so important!)
Read it all for yourself.
Here's a taste:
Regarding a brief received by an intelligence brief received by President Bill Clinton, compared to one received later on by President George W. Bush:
(...) the information contained in this Brief was far more detailed than anything in the August 6, 2001, memo to President Bush, which was largely an update concerning bin Laden and al Qaeda’s activities since the August 1998 U.S. embassy attacks in Africa.
That indicates that Clinton had better information than did Bush... and did nothing, nevertheless.
(December 20th, 1998):
On December 20, intelligence indicated Bin Ladin would be spending the night at the Haji Habash house, part of the governor’s residence in Kandahar. The chief of the Bin Ladin unit, “Mike,” told us that he promptly briefed Tenet and his deputy, John Gordon. From the field, the CIA’s Gary Schroen advised: “Hit him tonight—we may not get another chance.” An urgent teleconference of principals was arranged.
The principals considered a cruise missile strike to try to kill Bin Ladin. One issue they discussed was the potential collateral damage—the number of innocent bystanders who would be killed or wounded. General Zinni predicted a number well over 200 and was concerned about damage to a nearby mosque.
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“I’m sure we’ll regret not acting last night,” he wrote, criticizing the principals for “worrying that some stray shrapnel might hit the Habash mosque and ‘offend’ Muslims.”
Regret it indeed, for when you add it all up, on December 4, 1998, President Clinton received a written warning of an al Qaeda plot to hijack American planes. Sixteen days later, the CIA believed it knew of bin Laden’s whereabouts in Kandahar, and had a plan to take him out. The last time there was such a plan, for some reason it was aborted, and within months, two U.S. embassies were bombed in Africa.
Therefore, methinks the Clintons do protest too much. Why not just admit the truth to the American people? Why not admit that he, Clinton, screwed up big-time, having more concern for offending Muslims than for protecting Americans in America? Why not accept full responsibility for his key role in the failure of intelligence/preemption/prevention of 9/11 and accept history's harsh judgement that he just didn't understand the magnitude of the threat posed to the Free World by the Islamic World?
Why not concede that left-wingers are plainly not qualified, nor even interested, in any way whatsoever to deal with the threat of Islamofascist imperialism and jihad?
Bill Clinton: Suddenly realizing his gross, uncaring, cavalier incompetence about the threat from Islamofascism, jihad and Bin Laden... or just miffed that he missed his putt?
