Byron York's piece (link here ) starts...
Bill Clintons Excuses
No matter what he says, the record shows he failed to act against terrorism.
By Byron York
I worked hard to try and kill him, former president Bill Clinton told Fox News Sunday. I tried. I tried and failed.
Him is Osama bin Laden. And in his interview with Fox News Chris Wallace, the former president based nearly his entire defense on one source: Against All Enemies: Inside Americas War on Terror, the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. All Im asking is if anybody wants to say I didnt do enough, you read Richard Clarkes book, Clinton said at one point in the interview. All you have to do is read Richard Clarkes book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror, he said at another. All you have to do is read Richard Clarkes findings and you know its not true, he said at yet another point. In all, Clinton mentioned Clarkes name 11 times during the Fox interview.
But Clarkes book does not, in fact, support Clintons claim. Judging by Clarkes sympathetic account as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon its not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill bin Laden. Rather, he tried to convince as opposed to, say, order U.S. military and intelligence agencies to kill bin Laden. And when, on a number of occasions, those agencies refused to act, Clinton, the commander-in-chief, gave up.
Clinton did not give up in the sense of an executive who gives an order and then moves on to other things, thinking the order is being carried out when in fact it is being ignored. Instead, Clinton knew at the time that his top military and intelligence officials were dragging their feet on going after bin Laden and al Qaeda. He gave up rather than use his authority to force them into action.
Amazing that the DNC must constatntly "DEFINE" what Billy actually says, isn't it??
LOL!