Posted on 09/08/2006 2:49:46 AM PDT by Mia T
'The Path to 9/11'
9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden
Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that made the task of neutralizing the terrorist kingpin infinitely more difficult.
In a statement read at the beginning of Wednesday's session, 9/11 staffer Michael Hurley revealed:
"CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden.
"They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation. 'We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him,'" a former chief of the bin Laden station told the Commission.
"Working level CIA officers were frustrated by what they saw as the policy restraints of having to instruct their assets to mount a capture operation," the Commission statement said.
Commission staffer Hurley detailed one attempt to recruit indigenous Afghan forces in a bin Laden capture operation, explaining, "When Northern Alliance leader Massoud was briefed on the carefully worded instructions for him, the briefer recalled that Massoud laughed and said, 'You Americans are crazy. You guys never change.'"
... Last week NBC News quoted former CIA official Gary Schroen as saying that White House orders to spare bin Laden's life cut the chances of getting him in half, from 50 to 25 percent.
Schroen's revelation - now confirmed by the 9/11 Commission - was ignored by the mainstream press beyond its initial coverage by NBC.
NewsMax.com
CLINTON FAILURE TO ORDER 'PURE KILL' CUT CHANCES OF GETTING BIN LADEN IN HALF 8
(WHICH TIPPING HIM OFF QUICKLY REDUCED TO ZERO) 9
'WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN"
(DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?)
Part Two:
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 10:26 AM EST
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THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON part one UNITED 93:THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS "We have to do it now. We know what happens if we just sit here and do nothing...." CLINTON: 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?' (+ Albright-Fulbright-Nobel TERRORISM revelations) WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM? Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security? IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE) THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE UNITED 93:THE CLINTON-9/11 NEXUS "We have to do it now. We know what happens if we just sit here and do nothing...." ALBRIGHT INDICTS CLINTON FOR TERRORISM FAILURE (and doesn't even know it) MISSING CLINTON AUDIO! 'Can we kill 'em tomorrow?' (+Albright-Fulbright-Nobel TERRORISM revelations) WHY THE CLINTONS FAILED "TO CAPTURE OR KILL THE TALLEST MAN IN AFGHANISTAN" (DID THEY REALLY WANT TO TAKE HIM OUT ANYWAY?) 'MAKE IT A RULE' -- PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO. (HEAR HILLARY + BILL MAKE THEIR PITCH) THE (oops!) INADVERTENT (TERRORISM) ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) HILLARY GOES NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY (DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) -- part1: clinton's "Brinkley" Lie AFTERWORD: ON CLINTON SMALLNESS (BRINKLEY MISSES THE POINT) PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA Carpe Mañana: The (bill + hillary) clinton Terrorism Policy ('Can we kill 'em tomorrow?') CHENEY: CALL THEM REPREHENSIBLE THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES5 sandy berger haberdashery feint (the specs, not the pants or the socks) CLINTON TREASON + THE GORELICK WALL Reverse Gorelick THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY: the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update) pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality (Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President) WAR AND TREASON AND THE NEW YORK TIMES (Please see post 65) IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT (Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?) PINCH SULZBERGER, PEARL HARBOR + TREASON WHY WE MUST PROSECUTE THE NEW YORK TIMES WHY BIN LADEN WANTS HOME DELIVERY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES MORE
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Mia T for President
"The American people, by and large, do not know the name bin Laden, but they soon likely will. Do you have a message for the American people?
I say to them that they have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration...."
Our failure to deal appropriately with military threats a decade ago, when they were relatively smaller, creates a perception of opportunity amongst our enemies that led to 911.
The FAILURE TO DEAL WITH THOSE WHO NEGLECTED OR IMHO, "SOLD OUT" THE AMERICAN PEOPLE compounds that perception.
The above needs to be hung publically around the Clintons necks forever and a day.
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Thank you Mia T.
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a rough translation: "take a look'
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MiaT does it again. Just in case you were wondering why all the pressure on ABC over their docudrama.
I am so incredibly incensed that ABC has agreed to edit (whitewash) the truth in order to protect the (so-called) "legacy" of the former First Felon and Rapist-in-Chief that I cannot see straight. I emailed them a nasty gram and told them that their decision to re-edit the film to please one person (Clinton) had angered millions who would now not watch their soap opera. Stacked up against their censorship to accommodate one corrupt individual, I asked them how the loss of advertising revenue was going to be worth it? If millions tune out, they can't jack up their advertising rates.
ABC = Abetting Bill Clinton!!
BTW, great work as always, Mia. There's never any shortage of info in one of your posts - and we always appreciate them!!
excellent post
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