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Clinton Denies Taped Bin Laden Admission, Blames 'Misquote'
NewsMax.com ^
| April 9, 2004
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 04/09/2004 1:57:24 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
During his private interview with the 9/11 Commission on Thursday, ex-President Bill Clinton denied that he told a New York business group in 2002 that he turned down an offer from Sudan for Osama bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., according to 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey.
"Bill Clinton said yesterday that, that was a misquote," Kerrey told WDAY Fargo, North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen, in an interview set for broadcast on Monday.
A transcript of the exchange between Hennen and Kerrey was read on the air by national radio host Sean Hannity late Friday. It shows that the 9/11 Commission was unaware that Clinton's bombshell admission that he spurned the bin Laden offer had been recorded by NewsMax.
After Kerrey said Clinton had denied the quote, Hennen said, "But wait a minute - I heard it in his own voice. I've heard him say it. I have the tape of him saying just that."
"Really?" said a perplexed Kerrey. "Well, then - ship it to me, because Clinton said yesterday [in private 9/11 testimony] that he didn't have a recollection of that."
Clinton made the bombshell admission to the Long Island Association on Feb. 15, 2002. Though the LIA videotaped his appearance, the group has refused requests for copies from NBC News, Fox News and NewsMax.
Though NewsMax has the only publicly available recording of Clinton's remarks that day, they were also reported by Newsday the next day.
Transcript of Clinton's admission:
We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again.
They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan. [End of Excerpt]
To hear ex-President Clinton make the admission that he denied making to the 9/11 Commission, Click Here.
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Who ya goin' to believe, Carl. Clinton, or your own lyin' ears?
To: Carl/NewsMax
Pants on fire!
To: Carl/NewsMax
It's just perjury. Nothing to see here. Move On.
4
posted on
04/09/2004 2:00:47 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(If opposites attract, John Kerry must really like himself!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
The rapist sink molester wasn't under oath, but he should be charged with perjury anyway. I wonder what the 9/11 professional victims think about the sink emperor's lies?
Kristen Breitweiser, wife of Ronald Breitweiser, 39
Fiduciary Trust International, WTC Tower Two
Hometown: Middletown Township, NJ
Co-Chair, September 11th Advocates
Kdianbreit@aol.com Patty Casazza, wife of John F. Casazza, 38
Cantor Fitzgerald, 104th floor, WTC Tower One
Hometown: Colts Neck, NJ
Co-Chair, September 11th Advocates
jcasazz2@optonline.net Mindy Kleinberg, wife of Alan Kleinberg, 39
Cantor Fitzgerald, 104th floor, WTC Tower One
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
Co-Chair, September 11th Advocates
akleinberg@comcast.net Lorie Van Auken, wife of Kenneth Van Auken, 47
Cantor Fitzgerald, 105th floor, WTC Tower One
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
Co-Chair, September 11th Advocates
kenvan@comcast.net
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:00:56 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: Carl/NewsMax
BTTT! Clinton caught in another lie thanks to Hennen/Hannity/NewsMax! Good job.
6
posted on
04/09/2004 2:01:18 PM PDT
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(I can't stand it! Just let me vote now!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
I'll be holding my breath waiting to see the networks trot out some 9/11 Family Members before us to tell us how they Feel about Clinton lying to the 9/11 Commission. And newspaper headlines like, "9/11 Families Experience Day Of Anger Over Clinton Testimony".
/sarcasm
To: All
Oh no! I hear that if we make the goal today, the mean Sidebar Moderator is going to suspend my account! Nooooooooooooo!
To: Carl/NewsMax
I did not have verbal relations with that quote, about bin Laden!
9
posted on
04/09/2004 2:02:28 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Clinton said yesterday [in private 9/11 testimony] that he didn't have a recollection of that"No..of course not.
10
posted on
04/09/2004 2:03:10 PM PDT
by
Windsong
(f7er)
To: Carl/NewsMax
It's not a lie! He said he didn't have any recollection. No perjury here. Nothing to see here. MoveOn.
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:03:25 PM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Carl/NewsMax; 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten; big bad easter bunny; Brad Cloven
Sudan, an ally of al-Qaeda was gong to give up Bin Laden? More like those in Sudan were trying to jaw bone us. Liek the Taliban were after 9/11.
I mean Sudan is a death zone for Christians - why would we trust them to hand over Osama?
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:03:38 PM PDT
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: TomGuy
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
Washington Office*
Tel: (202) 331-4060
Fax: (202) 296-5545
info@9-11Commission.gov New York Office
13
posted on
04/09/2004 2:04:29 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: Destro
My guess is that Kerrey will sweet this under the rug and forget about it.
14
posted on
04/09/2004 2:05:09 PM PDT
by
oolatec
To: Carl/NewsMax
Despite Kerrey's partisan hack job recently I suspect he has no love for Clinton. I still say it was only after the Clintons threatened to go public with his war crimes that he decided to break it himself. Maybe it will go somewhere but I get the feeling that if Clinton sat up and said he personally financed 9-11 and after meeting with Bin Laden and receiving campaign funds supplied private jets for the hijackers to come to the country after selling his shares of American Airlines you wouldn't hear a thing about it on the network news. Instead it would be about who leaked the info.
15
posted on
04/09/2004 2:05:29 PM PDT
by
Dr Snide
(Rocking like Janet Reno)
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Yeah, that Cuomo acts like an old mafioso, Gennifer..."
To 60 Minutes: "Those tapes were a fake..."
To Governor Cuomo: "Sorry, Mario... I didn't mean any disrespect."
Who says Bill Clinton lies? Heaven forbid the 9/11 Commission (and the wonderfully non-partisan Former Senator Bob "I want to be VEEP" Kerrey) ask Clinton a question that would be uncomfortable or revealing... No agenda here... right, Mr. Ben-Venisti? What's the Point!?
To: Carl/NewsMax
This is amazing. I am sure it will be widely reported.
17
posted on
04/09/2004 2:05:54 PM PDT
by
Huck
(In the Soviet Union, the Admin Moderators ruled.)
To: big bad easter bunny
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:06:06 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Carl/NewsMax
There he goes again. Ol' Slick commits perjury as regularly (and as naturally) as most of us pass gas.
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posted on
04/09/2004 2:06:23 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
To: Carl/NewsMax
thanks
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