AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE: CLINTON ANGER UNLEASHED

The Drudge Report ^ | sept., 22, 2006 | drudge

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FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...

Video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwJabtvSUQ

[jrooney]

Remember that video of the drone from like Sept. of 2000 showing Osama wearing white at one of his training camps in Afghanistan? The drone was unarmed. If Clinton wanted to get Osama, the drone would have been armed, JUST IN CASE.

[ohioWfan]

Indeed it is! This is GREAT stuff!

[daybreakcoming]

And I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say I didn't do enough claim that I was too obsessed with bin Laden.

Gosh I don't remember claiming that clinton was too obsessed.....not with bin laden anyway, do you? Nor do I remember telling him to get out of Somalia. I think we wanted to go in there and kick a$$.

[small voice in the wilderness]

That's what cracks me up, too! Does he not KNOW that WE know he had 8 years? He's so undone by that part of the interview that he can't even give coherent excuses. He's just spewing, arguing and jabbing the air with that gross finger!

[cgk]

Okay, after seeing this piece of living, breathing, vermin play the angry-martyr act, I admit.......... I violated the keyword rule.


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[stockstrader]

Not a psychologist or psychiatrist here. But I DO know this. As Sen. Kerrey of Nebraska stated, "He is an unusually good liar." I couldn't agree more.

He lies with such compassion and such conviction!

When the Press gets close to touching a 'nerve'--he gets very defensive and VERY PASSIONATE.

As the Press questions his role in 9/11, he attacks. The Press was on the receiving end of his flak in this interview. That reminds me of the old military cliche', "When you're taking flak, you are over the target"!

[nopardons]

That whole thing, rather than the briefer snippet we all heard, is even more incriminating!

Many thanks for posting!

[cgk]

LOL!

Now THAT is tagline worthy! :)

[kabar]

Bush had 8 months and Clinton had 8 years. Bin Laden declared war on the US in 1996.

[Darnright]

I remember that one...

"It was my turn to meet the celebrity president. As he approached me, I politely, if coolly, asked him when he would hold his next formal press conference. It had been several months since his last and he's had fewer than any recent president. I admit I was trying to agitate the proper forum for questions about the FBI agents' charges. But, to me, this was still a rather innocuous question, even within the supposedly neutral zone of a party. A relevant question, too, given the gathering. Other hard-nosed reporters surely were wondering when they'd get another crack at Clinton.

Or so I thought. My simple question was rewarded with boos and hisses from the adoring Clinton groupies around me. So much for the adversarial press.

But that was nothing compared with Clinton's reaction to my inquiry about his next press confab. In an instant, his 100-watt charm shut off, replaced by a taunting belligerence. "Why?" he barked.

"Because the American people have a lot of unanswered questions," I replied, struggling to hold my bladder. At that point, he moved back down the rope, pulling up square in front of me, and demanded, "Like what?"

"Well, like illegal money from China and the campaign-finance scandal ..."

What happened over the next 10 minutes was nothing short of a "scene." The party-goers collapsed in around us. I watched the blood rush to Clinton's gargantuan face as he launched into a tirade against ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, the FBI, Bob Dole and Republicans in general. All the while, he tried to belittle me by making faces (to get a rise out of his fans) and intimidate me by getting in my face.

And now I can see how he can do that to people. Clinton's not just intellectually intimidating, he's physically imposing. He's tall (6-2) and big-boned.

Luckily, I'm the same height and was able to stand toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye with him. I'll never forget the maniacal look in his bloodshot eyes. There was a moment, fleeting, where I sensed he wanted to try to take a swipe at me. I was getting full frontal Clinton. His volcanic temper, hidden so well from the public by his handlers, erupted less than 12 inches from my eyes.

Clinton always is game for a debate. That I asked him hard questions at a party wasn't what ticked him off. It's what I asked him about. He clearly doesn't want to talk about the mother of all scandals -- Chinagate.

He also may have been thrown by my grasp of the facts. I'd been tracking the Beijing-tied Lippo Group's influence in the Clinton White House since 1996 and have been suspicious of the probity of Attorney General Janet Reno's special task force since she let John Keeney Sr. set it up -- a month after the election -- to look into Lippo's influence.

Keeney's son is none other than a defense attorney for John Huang, the former Lippo executive and convicted Clinton-Gore fund-raiser. Junior, who's also a long-time Democratic National Committee lawyer, cut Huang a deal with daddy's old task force that got him no jail time and immunity from prosecution for espionage.

Clinton also was unprepared for my tenacity. Other reporters may back down after he singes their eyebrows with a verbal fusillade. Dummy me, I hung in there for more abuse, challenging his answers, following up with more questions. Which only made him madder.

Take, for instance, the exchange we had after I asked him what he thought of the FBI agents' charges two days earlier that they'd been blocked from following trails back to the White House in the Chinagate probe. (When I first mentioned the agents, he acted dumb: "What FBI agents?")

"The Eff-Bee-Ahh," Clinton said, his tone dripping with contempt and suspicion. "What do you think of the FBI?"

I don't have an opinion, sir. My question is to you.

"Yeah, the FBI wants you to write about that rather than write about Waco," a reference to lingering questions about the agency's role in the 1993 fire that killed Branch Davidian separatists in Waco, Texas.

It was an extraordinary remark. The president was questioning the motives and veracity of his own agency.

I piped up that these were career FBI agents. One had been with the agency 25 years. And they made these charges under oath.

"Are you suggesting they're not telling the truth, Mr. President?" I asked.

Clinton's face turned a darker hue of red, almost the purplish color of raw hamburger meat that's been left out on the counter. Changing the subject, he attacked Republicans for their own fund-raising woes.

After Clinton had had enough of me, he tried to move on. But, I pressed, reminding him that he still hadn't answered my original question: When will you have another formal news conference?

"You just had one," he snapped. "

[GeorgiaDawg32]

or another one..when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit..

[nopardons]

And so do a lot of other old timers,here, have all of this kind of stuff saved. We'll BURY Hillary, if she dares enter the Dem presidential primary! :-)

[newzjunkey]

He's a rotten so-and-so.

[DejaJude]

Rignt... and he did not have sex with that woman. Why does anyone pay attention to this idiot?

[Screamname]

This is going to really hurt Hitlerys quest for absolute power which I can imagine un-nerves Bill to no end.

[aragona]

HAHAHA!!!
Well said!

[bannie]

Without those free haircuts, his pinhead is showing. Alcoholic syndrome head?

[Inspectorette]

Not to mention that Bush was trying to put together a cabinet for months. The Dems kept blocking all his choices especially after Jeffords jumped. Gore kept the election up in the air for a month and then the Dems blocked everything Bush tried to do. EIGHT MONTHS? What about 8 years, Billy Jeff?

In addition, there was the international incident in April of 2001 when a U.S. Navy P-3 surveillance plane was forced down over Hainin Island, China. Our aviators were "detained" for nearly three weeks while delicate negotiations were underway. Even after our valiant servicepeople were freed, there was a lot of diplomacy going on for months.

[stockstrader]

I want someone to ask him (or find out on their own), how many times he talked on the phone with the head of the CIA or FBI vs. how many times he had phone sex with Monica during those two years with Monica.

I also want someone to ask him (or find out on their own), how many times he met in person with the head of the CIA, FBI or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs vs. how many times he was 'serviced' by Monica in the Oval Office during those two years with Monica.

The answers to those two question will prove how much effort he put into catching Bin Laden!!!!

If you REALLY WANT TO SET HIM OFF--ask him (or find out and make public) the answers to those two questions!

[omega4179]

Why would Bush have tried to get Bin Laden in 8 months pre-9/11 When Clinton and Halfbright just spent 4 years decrying the WMD program threat of Saddam Hussein? Rockefeller said it was an Imminent threat!