U.S. yanked bribe plan to capture Bin Laden (hillary!, Albright might object)

But White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke "opposed ... a 'huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban' and suggested that the idea might not seem attractive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - both critics of the Taliban's record on women's rights."

This is an admission that Clinton's Anti-terror wizard, Richard Clarke, felt that US policy toward apprehending bin Laden in 1999 should be subordinate to concerns about the Taliban position on "Women's Rights."

One wonders how the families of 9/11 victims feel about this revelation.

Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes.

IN RETURN FOR $$$ donations to the DNC. It was all there in black in white. Berger sanitized those documents. Hillary will sanitize Berger as soon as media interest dies down.

STORY CORRECTION!:

I just got off the phone with the reporter James Meek. He said that an editor screwed up by saying Clinton gave the 10-20 million annually to the Taliban. In fact, it was Bin Laden who gave that amount to the Taliban.

Meek did not make the error of saying Clinton did that; somebody else did that they haven't figured out yet.

They printed a correction in Friday's edition, but Meek doesn't think they have corrected it online yet.

To recap: IT IS NOT TRUE THAT CLINTON GAVE 10-20 million bucks annually to the Taliban.

I gave him a call when I searched the 9/11 report and found nothing that indicated Clinton gave this money to see if he could point me to what page it was in the report...if it was true, it would have been sensational. But, it is false and some editor made a goof.

HOWEVER, it IS true that Clinton turned down a $250 bribe to the Taliban. This is correct and in the report.

Also, Meek told me that it is true that Clinton gave billions in funds for "poppy eradication" in Afghanistan during his time in office.

That would be something that would be interesting to look up.

On a side note....James is a really nice guy. I was rather shocked somebody from the northeast would be that nice, especially a reporter. I was trying to get ready for work when I called and he just kept wanting to chat about things..lol.

Anyway, thought you should know that the part about annual bribes is INCORRECT, though it IS true that Clinton turned down that $250 million bribe.

As a SIDE-BAR, let's not forget THIS gem from 1998(excerpted)

"The FBI had a clandestine plan to capture terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998"; and even practiced the daring operation in the Texas desert; but former Attorney General Janet Reno scrubbed it, calling it "too dangerous," reports ABC News.

Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABC NEWS consultant, revealed the details of a secret team of federal investigators he was a part of whose sole purpose was to apprehend bin Laden."

"But when the details of the scheme went up the chain of command for approval, according to Cloonan, Reno killed it.

'They came to the decision that this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant,' Cloonan told the news network. There was concern that people around the bin Laden compound would be killed."

At the time, the former attorney general was still answering to critics about her handling of the inferno at the Branch Davidians' Waco, Texas, compound in 1993."

"Reno declined to comment ..."

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