Posted on 09/07/2006 6:11:42 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The attack by Bill Clinton and his allies on the upcoming ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is "outrageous," charges former Clinton aide Dick Morris.
As NewsMax has reported, Bill Clinton through his surrogates have demanded that ABC "correct all errors" in the docudrama or pull it from the air, charging that it is a "fictitious rewriting of history" regarding President Clinton's handling of the terrorist threat.
But Morris claims that Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and the president himself "were both responsible for failing to catch or kill bin Laden on several different occasions."
Morris has served Clinton as an advisor for twenty years and notably as Clinton's senior campaign strategist during his 1996 re-election.
Morris states that the evidence for this failure is documented in the 9/11 Commission's report and summarized in "Because He Could," the book about Clinton that Morris co-authored with his wife Eileen McGann.
The commission's report, released in the summer of 2004, "highlighted the weak, incompetent, hesitant, and inconsistent attempts of the Clinton administration to kill or capture Osama bin Laden," according to the book, which devotes an entire chapter to Clinton's mishandling of the threat.
"The report's account shows the president and his advisers at their worst."
One time, the United States "canceled an attempt to kidnap bin Laden out of concern that we might injure or kill him and be accused of using assassination as a policy tool," Morris told NewsMax.
"The president had yet to make a finding that it was OK to kill bin Laden. The reason he had not is that he did not yet know bin Laden's connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The reason he did not know that is that he did not fast-track the investigation.
"A second time, we did fire missiles but alerted the Pakistani military to our plans and they tipped off bin Laden, and he escaped."
According to the commission's report, the United States alerted Pakistan because the missiles targeting bin Laden, who was in Afghanistan, had to cross Pakistan, and U.S. officials did not want Pakistan to think the missiles came from India.
"A third time, our plans to attack by missile were canceled, partially out of chagrin over having missed him before and partially because we had just bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade by mistake and were worried about being called trigger happy," said Morris.
"The president was also concerned about civilian deaths in any such attack.
"The underlying theme of the ABC coverage, that he was distracted by impeachment, is of course true. But more so, he was gun-shy" because he was afraid conservatives would say he had launched a failed attack "in an effort to 'wag the dog' and distract people from the Monica Lewinsky affair."
Morris concluded: "His fear of such attacks on him inhibited him from acting."
Actually, didn't Hillary always says that theirs was a "co-presidency"? So she must have been in on the discussions, right?
WHAT DID HILLARY KNOW AND WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT??
Anybody have an idea just what is being changed in this movie?
What's your guess? Do you think this movie spreads the blame around? To Democrats and Republicans?
That's obvious. Regardless, the film's final cut will censor out the most accurate portrayals of Clinton's negligence and incompetance.
whatever...
If the democrats have that much control as a minority it doesnt say much for the republican leadership.
Will the justice department step in and stop this censureship by the US government?
"If I had a crystal ball, I'd look into it to see what documents Sandy Berger destroyed from the National Archives."
Our government knows exactly what he took and destroyed. The second time was a sting. However, our "compassionate conservative" leaders wouldn't want to offend anyone by letting the People know the truth.
I'd give a lot to know that.
A lot of people would.
The real mistake was electing Clinton in the first place.
Then, pray tell, on the very day that Miss Monica was to testify to the grand jury, what was the missile attack on bin Laden and the Khartoum "aspirin factory" if not "wag the dog"?
Where can I get that poster-size?
I don't believe he's in any danger. I suspect that Morris is a stealth agent of influence for Hillary. He's been posing as an anti-Hillary pundit to prepare us to swallow the one big lie if and when she decides she needs it...... but I could be wrong.
I suspect that God has given satan permission to protect his boy Bill. satan will go to great lengths to protect his future anti-christ.
Anybody see Shumer from the press conference today? As best as I could tell from the quick clip, he was upset about a film maker using the medium to try to tell the story of recent history (political or otherwise) with such a partisan slant. My question to Sen. Shumer would be: just what have we been enduring from filmmakers for the past two decades? Michael Moore or Oliver Stone ring any bells?
I guess we will all be watching this.
I remember when Bill Schnieder hyped Clinton and Monica about Clinton being caught in lies. Instead, Clinton explained what the word "is" is. With the negative hype by the press, the whole world was watching and Clinton looked great to the world.
Hopefully, this is not a repeat of MSM hype.
I voted for Clinton twice. I am constantly amazed at how ham-handed he appears to me now. This is just so much overkill. They really messed up, unless Clinton doesn't really want Hillary to be President, and possibly upstage him (I don't believe that, but this seems so stupid, I don't understand it- unless the polls aren't as good for the Dems in Nov as they let on).
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