Posted on 06/17/2004 8:14:14 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In his interview with CBS newsman Dan Rather set for broadcast on Sunday, ex-President Bill Clinton flatly contradicts his earlier recorded confession that Sudan offered to arrest Osama bin Laden and hand him over to the U.S., calling reports of such an offer "bull."
"On the accusation that he had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden, had opportunities to have him delivered by the Sudanese, he said, 'absolutely, flatly untrue,' describing it as 'bull,'" Rather tells the Washington Post on Thursday.
In Feb. 2002, however, Mr. Clinton clearly admitted that the Sudanese offer had indeed taken place. And that he turned it down.
"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan," Clinton told the Long Island Association on Feb. 15, 2002.
"He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And 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."
On Thursday morning, MewsMax.com offered CBS's "60 Minutes" a copy of its exclusive recording of Clinton's remarks.
But it's not clear whether the network will be willing to embarrass the ex-president by airing smoking gun proof that his current claims about the bin Laden offer are false.
Listen to NewsMax.com's exclusive recording of Bill Clinton admitting that he let bin Laden go free.
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I'm much more inclined to believe Mansour Ijaz than the degenerate sinkEmperor.
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah...and, we've never heard THAT before!
There is something fitting about seeing the words Bill and genital in the same sentence
If you're right Bubba, why isn't Osama Bin Laden now in our custody? Hmmm...
this is gonna be some f'n book. fiction section? This really sucks. I love going to borders and B&N and now I can't without seeing that pos face all over.
any luck?
Has anyone explained away Clinton's statement, when he was Gubenor of Arkansas, that there was no way he could have fathered an illegitimate child, because he had mumps as a young teen? Thusly, he was sterile?
Thusly begging the question, whence Chelsea?
That is the problem with using the words of a known admitted liar against himself. You can't prove which time he is lying. And in this case, it wouldn't surprise me if he told 9 versions that they were all lies.
Unbelievable. What a lying POS! Good one Mia.
Clinton=lie
thx ;)
He seems to be Sixties refuse with a two hundred dollar haircut and a thousand dollar suit. The dovetailing of these two incongruous elements give him a dubious aura, if one knows how to look for such things.
Personally, I think that bit of the interview will be edited out. America will never see it, and Rather's been tipped off to the fact that it paints his darling Willy as a proven liar.
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THE VIDEOTAPE OF CLINTON'S BOMBSHELL ADMISSION IS OUT THERE. WHY CAN'T WE SEE IT?? THE L.I.A. HAS BLOCKED ITS RELEASE. BUT NBC HAS HAD IT, THE 9/11 COMMISSION SAW IT. YET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE IT! WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THIS VIDEO!
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