Posted on 09/10/2016 8:41:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Hank Crumpton, a former CIA officer and top counterterrorism official, said in a recent interview that President Bill Clinton’s White House missed a golden opportunity to take out terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in 1999.
Bin Laden was in Afghanistan in 1999, Crumpton told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in a segment that aired on Sunday. His convoy had been clearly identified by an early edition Predator drone, which at the time didn’t have weapons capabilities.
“We saw a security detail, a convoy, and we saw bin Laden exit the vehicle, clearly,” Crumpton told CBS’s Lara Logan, describing aerial images captured by a drone flying somewhere outside of Kandahar. “The optics were spot in, it was beaming back to us, CIA headquarters. We immediately alerted the White House, and the Clinton administration’s response was, ‘Well, it will take several hours for the TLAMs, the cruise missiles launched from submarines, to reach that objective. So, you need to tell us where bin Laden will be five or six hours from now.’ The frustration was enormous.”
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Hillary has added to the legacy.
She has created the largest humanitarian crisis in human history.
By removing Kafafi she gave safe haven to ISIS ad created the unending flow of immigrants across the planet.
As I remember, the Clintons got a small portion of the 9-11 movie removed that made him look particularly bad.
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72 inches was never 79 inches,ever
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