Posted on 08/12/2005 7:37:09 AM PDT by spycatcher
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 February 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 February 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 had 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.
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BTTT with thanks to Peach for finding this...it gives context to this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697413/posts
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html
Go to that URL to email ABC and let them know what you think!
In context with the "letter" from the Senate Democrats todayre: ABC- this is a MUST read...perspective..
Great post thanks for the effort
So Lugsoul,
I beleive you were expressing doubt about this data's accuracy earlier. What do you say now?
How Clinton has not already died from guilt is beyond me.
"Kerrey's way of lamenting his own limitations?"
Someone needs to get Kerrey a new set of crutches.
He wore out his last set on the 9/11 commission.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95S8qCH6Qw4&mode=related&search=pathto911
Who posted it them to Youtube, and why?
Wow! Thanks Mom! Thanks Peach!
But a bombshell decision may happen anyway: Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether.
http://www.variety.com/VR1117949675.html
I say you are grossly mischaracterizing what I said.
They can't block this video link. Please send it to your friends and relatives.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JuH1xwLUnbg
Were the Clintoons paid by the Opecker Thugs to protect Ben Laden?
Are the Clintoons and rats in Congress still getting paid to protect the al Qaeda serial killers, who would kill all of us if given an opportunity?
That would only make the Clintonistas look worse, but they can't see it.
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