State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996

NY Times ^ | August 17, 2005 | ERIC LICHTBLAU

[Homer1]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam "well beyond the Middle East," but the government chose not to deter the move, newly declassified documents show.

[Ann Archy]

The kedia can't get the simple Able Danger story out to the public....they are NEVER going to go indepth with this one!

[cincinnati65]

I'm worried about this "one-up-man-ship" that's going on....next thing you'll know we're going to hear about an old War Department memo to FDR noting a certain gleam in Old Man bin Laden's eye!

[mplsconservative]

So I guess my next question is, what page is this story on?

I wondered that too, after I posted.

I refuse to give their site hits.

[ncountylee]

3,000 plus lost lives is just too big for the traditional Clinton strategy to cover the beast. May she roast in ...

[Just mythoughts]

Yes Joe wants to run, and wasn't he planning to be the Secretary of State under a JFKerry presidency?

Curious to get something out of State same day as Biden blowing his running horn.

[EagleUSA]

I thought he was going to "take Bin Laden out"?
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He did. To dinner.

[mplsconservative]

Thanks for that. I suspected it was a pre-emptive strike of some sort.

I never trust a 'Rat and their Rat Co-horts.

This will be interesting to watch.

[Fudd Fan]

The Klintoon administration's policy on the growing terrorism threat in the 1990s:

[Stellar Dendrite]

"A little closet cleaning"

IMO this is a blatant attempt to sweep away able danger. It's amazing how sinister these marxists are.

The thing about able danger is that aside from warnings, it puts direct responsibility on Gorelick et al RE: "the wall". That was a DIRECT cause of 9/11. There are many reasons why they want to get the focus off of able danger, one being that people will ask the fundamental question of "why" there was this wall. So after the 9/11 comission/Gorelick and other crinton officials got hammered, then people could begin to uncover the other scandals ie Chinagate, etc.

[Theresawithanh]

Curious, indeed! I did not mean to make light of the info in your post, it just tickled me that Joe is looking like he is going to run.

Based on his remarks lately, he's going for the barking moonbat vote. Guess he's believing the polls which are out.

[Carry_Okie]

They are defusing Able Danger' specific identification of Atta by saying the threat posed by Al Queada was "common knowledge." That's akin of like saying 'We knew Japan was a threat,' when the news comes to light that someone might have been sitting on foreknowledge of an attack on Pearl Harbor.

This story is chaff.

[kristinn]

Here's my favorite non-quote from the article:

Several former senior officials in the Clinton administration did not return phone calls this week seeking comment on the newly declassified documents.

Where's Mad Albright? Where's Sandy Berger? Where's Strobe Talbott? Oh where, oh where can they be?

[mplsconservative]

Page 1. International Section. Jump on NYT Front Page.

Whoa!

[Ron in Acreage]

How did this make the NY Times?

[Fudd Fan]

1996 was also the year of the Olympics bomb and flight-800. There was no way Klintoon wanted the electorate to be nervous about a terrorist attack, or he might not be re-elected. As usual it was all about HIM.

[eyespysomething]

http://www.sudan.net/news/press/postedr/125.shtml

Secondly, when challenged as to why the Clinton Administration passed up
on the offer of bin Laden's extradition, Samuel Berger stated: "In the
United States, we have this thing called the Constitution, so to bring
him here is to bring him into the justice system. I don't think that was
our first choice." (8) Surely, if any of their subsequent claims about
bin Laden's involvement in terrorism against American interests from
1992 through to 1995, as laid out in their response to the 'Vanity Fair'
article, were true why did the Clinton Administration not jump at the
chance of his extradition in 1996?

[Darkwolf377]

LIES, ALL LIES!

Bill himself said he was OBSESSED with catching Bin Laden!

When will that rightwing rag NYT stop its insane hatred of Democrats?!?!?!?!?!?????? ;)

[Stellar Dendrite]

see #49

[Just mythoughts]

You are just fine, and I also was humored with Joe myself, and had forgotten about it until I saw this.

One never knows about these people and the election cycle does seem to be gearing up.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Bubba will make appearances all over the place, bite his lip, and do another "I feel your pain" performance, almost (but not quite) apologizing for gross incompetence. Then he'll segue to a story about his childhood memory of African American churches burning in the South. And then he'll make an appeal for donations to his tsunami fund. And all will be well with Bubba...

Meanwhile, Sandy Berger (to be sentenced in September for stealing top secret terrorist docs from the National Archive) will be yet another Clinton pal who ends up in jail, while Clinton remains free...