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Clinton: Claims I Turned Down Bin Laden are 'Bull'
NewsMax.com ^ | June 17, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: binladen; clinton; napalminthemorning; saveamerica; smokingguntape; stophillary; wagginghisfinger; wot
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Wow. I guess that year of counseling after he "told Hillary" he had been fooling around on her (and apparently, he still is) wasn't aimed at his problem with pathological lying.

I wonder how many more years of counseling it would take to get a handle on his chronic ethophobia?

You can bet your bottom dollar that Rush, Hannity, Savage and the gang will be repeatedly playing recordings of Exhibit A back-to-back with Exhibit B, and it won't make Billy Jeff look very well reformed.

Then again, he's never admitted that he needed reform, so there's not much to work with there.


21 posted on 06/17/2004 8:24:06 AM PDT by Imal (Bill Clinton was the man who brought the dignity of The Jerry Springer Show to the U.S. presidency.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
More barf from the barfbag himself.

I sure do wish he'd move to France and stay there.

22 posted on 06/17/2004 8:24:32 AM PDT by LibKill (Once more into the breach, dear friends!)
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So, Clinton will say this during his TV interviews.
Then they'll play the tapes of him saying the exact opposite.
THEN, they'll ask him to explain his contradictions, right?

**crickets**

I'll not hold MY breath.
23 posted on 06/17/2004 8:24:36 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: opus86

LOL...


24 posted on 06/17/2004 8:24:39 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

The Dope from Hope

25 posted on 06/17/2004 8:25:18 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Carl/NewsMax

http://www.newsmax.com/audio/BILLVH.mp3

Above is working NewsMax link to Clinton statement. FYI


26 posted on 06/17/2004 8:25:27 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

bump


27 posted on 06/17/2004 8:25:45 AM PDT by freeasinbeer (If you're not liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not conservative by 40, you have no brain.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Bill knows bull.


28 posted on 06/17/2004 8:26:14 AM PDT by anonymous_user (Life is like a crap sandwich. The more bread you got, the less crap you gotta eat.)
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To: All

Does anybody know if there's a transcript of the tape Sean Hannity played on his show where Klintoon ADMITTED he didn't take OBL because he didn't have a LEGAL CHARGE against him???

29 posted on 06/17/2004 8:26:14 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

It all depends on the meaning of "bull."


30 posted on 06/17/2004 8:26:57 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham
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To: Falcon4.0; Carl/NewsMax
I guess Clinton lied to himself.

And - of course - Dan Blather swallows it whole.

31 posted on 06/17/2004 8:27:08 AM PDT by capydick ("There's no question I'm an idealist, which is another way of saying I am an American.")
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To: Carl/NewsMax

I heard his slimy voice myself on tape.He tells so many lies he can not keep up with them.A flawed mind is a great thing to lose.


32 posted on 06/17/2004 8:27:18 AM PDT by solo gringo (Always Ranting Always Rite)
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To: TomGuy

Rather sees himself as the newsmaker.


33 posted on 06/17/2004 8:27:21 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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To: mgc1122
I wish this turd named Clinton could finally be flushed ...

I'm sorry to say it, but according to Democrats, this pos has become an............

AMERICAN STANDARD

34 posted on 06/17/2004 8:27:32 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Wow, this is the first time Clinton has actually admitted that his own words are "bull".
35 posted on 06/17/2004 8:28:24 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.freepgs.com/counterpunch)
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To: mgc1122

"I wish this turd named Clinton could finally be flushed ..."

He already has been several times. He is just one of those turds that comes back in the backwash when the toilet bowl is refilling for the next user.


36 posted on 06/17/2004 8:28:30 AM PDT by ChevyZ28 (Here is a sorrowful farewell to our beloved President Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) RIP.)
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To: Falcon4.0
I guess Clinton lied to himself.

Priceless

I can't believe he said that on 60 minutes .. what an idiot .. LOL

37 posted on 06/17/2004 8:29:36 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... WE LOVED PRESIDENT REAGAN)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Are you actually inferring Clinton would make a bald faced lie?

The Sinkmaster would NEVER resort to such tactics!

How dare you expose the truth about this upstanding, lying, traitorous piece of...er...human debris?

38 posted on 06/17/2004 8:30:31 AM PDT by JDoutrider (In God We Trust...)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

SOP! Remember "I lied to my diary"?


39 posted on 06/17/2004 8:31:06 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: Mo1
I can't believe he said that on 60 minutes .. what an idiot .. LOL

Why can't you? He lies until there is no one left to lie to.

And the target audience for 60 Minutes and Newsmax are almost exclusive. So the goal of Clinton is to lie to the 60 Minutes target audience and then trust his minions in the media to fight to keep the Newsmax story away from that target audience.

40 posted on 06/17/2004 8:31:39 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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