CLINTON COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9-11

JunkYard Blogs ^ | March 16, 2004 | Unknown

[conservativecorner]

The CIA had Osama bin Laden in its gunsights a year before 9-11, but because the Clinton White House had ordered agents to take bin Laden alive or not at all, he lived on to kill another day:

secret CIA videotape shows that the Clinton administration had pinpointed the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks, but declined to kill him because of White House orders that he should be taken alive. The video, obtained and broadcast by NBC News, "illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden," the network reported Tuesday.

Images filmed in Afghanistan by CIA Predator Drones show a man clad in white robes who towers over his entourage. [Bin Laden is 6' 5" tall.]

The film was shot over Tarnak Farm, the walled compound where bin Laden was believed to live at the time. The layout of the buildings in the Predator video perfectly matches previous photos and diagrams of Tarnak Farm prepared by U.S. intelligence.

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Though President Clinton has boasted repeatedly that he issued orders to kill bin Laden, no action was taken when the White House finally got its chance.

Why not?

Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, told NBC that the White House had in fact ordered the CIA to do just the opposite - take bin Laden alive or not at all.

The order "reduced the odds from, say, a 50 percent chance down to, say, 25 percent chance that we were going to be able to get him,” Schroen told the network.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda, but didn't. And thousands died, and we're at war.

If you liked Clinton's feckless approach to terrorism, you'll just love John Kerry.

[mewzilla]

Oh, I don't think Toon's approach was feckless.

[Dallas59]

Clinton was too tied up getting his ying yang serviced by dumb, gullible interns.

[AngieGOP]

Toon was too busy getting his knob polishied in the Oval Office to pay attention to the threat matrix or Bin Laden. Monica was more important.

[mewzilla]

Or, Toon was doing what he was told. I've always wondered if Toon wasn't submitting to blackmail most, if not all, of the time he was in the WH. That would explain a lot.

[AngieGOP]

Toon blackmails. He doesn't get blackmailed.

[Wright is right!]

It's a shame the Predators weren't armed with missiles. The footage shown last night on NBC clearly shows the target as video'd from a most stable aerial platform - a platform that obviously could stay on-station long enough to deliver the armament with pinpoint precision.

Gotta say that the video quality from that drone at 15,000 feet was quite good. And that was back in the X-24(i) years. You can imagine what the video quality looks like on current Predators.

[Just mythoughts]

So rather than own up to their failures, they seek to destroy President Bush's credibility, with their lies.


These people are no different than the mind of OBL.

Now what is not answered here is why did Clintons not want OBL dead.

[mewzilla]

You don't think Toon's proclivities weren't known to most of our friends and all of our enemies? I think the American public were the only folks not clued in, thanks in large part to our media. Why bomb when you can blackmail?

[RamRoss]

The sad fact is that so could the Bush Administration
prevented 9/11

[TomGuy]

The seeds for 9-11 were sown in the fiasco the Clinton administration created in Somalia.

[finnman69]

It's obvious Clinton did not remove his lips from Arafat's ass. Taking out Bin Laden would have made Arafat pass gas in Bubba's face.

[conservativecorner]

Pure horseshit! I don't have the time this morning to rebuke you in full, but later I will. Stay tuned for a post to you later!

[Monty22]

Here is is, in our sights.. But the order was never given

[TankerKC]

CLINTON COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9-11

If so, does that mean that Bush can prevent any further terrorist events? I don't think so.

Clinton couls have done a better job, but the event was coming. If not 9-11, then 9-11, or 11-9, or...

[TomGuy]

MSNBC website has video from Lisa Meyers' report about this. FYI

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yes. It involved another f-word.

[TankerKC]

It's a shame the Predators weren't armed with missiles.

We have been shooting hellfire missles off Predators recently.

[Ready4Freddy]

Agreed. Headline assumes that 9-11 wouldn't have / couldn't have happened w/o OBL.

[mewzilla]

I began to wonder even more after I read Richard Miniter's book, Losing bin Laden. Toon did too much, too well, too often to keep UBL from being captured or killed. I just think it was deliberate. And if so, the question is why.