Posted on 05/18/2004 9:35:03 PM PDT by jmstein7
The independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks has examined a secret videotape of ex-President Clinton discussing an offer from Sudan to have Osama bin Laden arrested five years before the 9/11 attacks, former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman revealed on Tuesday.
Asked if the never-before-seen video confirms that Clinton admitted turning the offer down, Lehman told radio host Sean Hannity, " Well, that is what he said."
While the video of Clinton's bombshell remarks, delivered to the Long Island Association in Feb. 2002, had never been released prior to a request from the 9/11 Commission, NewsMax.com's exclusive audiotape shows the ex-president explaining:
"We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted to start dealing with us again. They released him. At the time, 1996, had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him."
Secretary Lehman said that when Clinton was interrogated about the comment during his April 8 testimony, his account was somewhat at odds with the version on the tape, saying, "It's not quite the way he described it."
Lehman explained that the former president attempted to give "a broader understanding of what he was talking about" in the Feb. 2002 speech. Asked for specifics, Lehman told Hannity, "I can't go into it, but we will have the full story" in the final report due out in July.
At the time of Clinton's questioning, apparently he, along with at least some of the 9/11 Commissioners, were unaware that his 2002 comments had been recorded. According to 9/11 Commissioner, former Sen. Bob Kerry, Clinton called a transcript of his remarks "a misquote."
In April, LIA spokesman Gary Wojtas told NewsMax that he turned the secret Clinton video over to the 9/11 Commission at their request the month before. In 2002, the LIA turned down requests for copies of the video from NBC News, the Fox News Channel and NewsMax.
Asked in April whether he would now make the tape public, Wojtas told NewsMax, "That's something we're waiting on right now - that's all I'll say on that. It's not that we won't do it. It's just something we need to wait on right now."
Wojtas did not return NewsMax's call last week seeking release of the videotape.
I can dream...can't I?
I am just not optimistic.
"I think the command and control and communications of this city's public service is a scandal," said John F. Lehman, a Republican commission member who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration. The city's disaster-response plans, he added, were "not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city."
Now he leaks this? How very interesting.
a secret videotape of ex-President Clinton discussing an offer from Sudan to have Osama bin Laden arrested five years before the 9/11 attacks.
I heard Lerhman on Hannity today and he stopped well short of saying that there was a smoking gun on Clinton's statement. He seemed to almost say that Well, his remark was taken out of context and in it's broader meaning it is better understood.
Did not sound good to me.
Well in that case, I'm sure the tape will be released.
Not a bit surprised. With "Slick Willy" everything was secretive.
This from the guy who has to argue about what the definition of 'is' is. When will we be done paying for electing him?
Or so he thought, huh!! I understood he had lied to the commission, hope this proves it!
This will be spiked as fast as the beheading of Nick Berg and the WMD's discoveries were.
"...and here is the edited version of Pres. Clinton's comments.............................................................CBS etal legal experts claim that the US had no right to hold OBL....now, back to the latest on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal"
I know, makes you feel helpless when you can't do anything to change it!
I think he'll have algore Arkanicided for inventing the Internet. *smirk*
Sadly, when many of us are taking our dirt nap...
I'm sure Michael Moore included the Clinton clip in his new film to provide balance, right?
This my friend, is a dead issue. The blame for 9/11 will never be laid at Clinton's feet. His cult following in the media will never allow that to happen
The best thing to do with Bill Clinton is forget about him, irrelevance is worst pill he can swallow.
Thr truth will opt, someday, and the American people will learn that Bill Clinton was directly responsible for the the attacks on 911 and the deaths of so many American innocents! You can bank on it!
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