Kean: Clinton Agrees to 9/11 Grilling

NewsMax.com ^ | 7/09/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Ex-President Bill Clinton has personally assured former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean that he will "cooperate" if the Independent Commission probing the 9/11 attacks seeks his testimony.

Kean, the group's chairman, told reporters yesterday that there had been no request so far from the commission for either Clinton and President Bush to testify, but added, "there might be."

He then revealed, "Both, by the way, have assured me personally of their full cooperation."

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Bush had "not ruled out" some sort of interview, though it would likely not be under oath.

A spokesman for ex-President Clinton, on the other hand, "declined to say whether the former president would agree to be interviewed by the commission."

While the press has focused on questions about what the Bush administration knew before 9/11, President Clinton's bombshell admission last year that he turned down an offer to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S. before the 9/11 attacks could be among the most politically uncomfortable issues on the agenda.

In off-handed remarks to a New York business group in Feb. 2002, Clinton revealed that five years before the attacks his administration received an overture from the government of Sudan

"We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. They released [bin Laden]. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." [Click Here to listen to Clinton's admission]

Other topics ripe for exploration by the 9/11 Commission:

• Claims from CIA sources that the agency's ability to gather human intelligence in places like Afghanistan and Iraq was decimated due to restrictions imposed by the Clinton White House.

• Questions about why President Clinton did so little in response to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

• Reports that Philippine police had warned the Clinton administration that Ramizi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 attack, had plans on his laptop computer to hijack U.S. airliners and crash them into American landmarks. Among Yousef's prospective targets: the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

• Claims by former Clinton Iraq policy advisor Laurie Mylroie that the ex-president deliberately ignored intelligence linking Saddam Hussein to the 1993 Twin Towers attack.

• The president's refusal to implement policy recommendations by former advisor Dick Morris to check immigration status records during routine traffic stops by police; a tactic that could have resulted in the deportation of lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta.

• Allegations from former presidential military attache Lt. Col. Robert Patterson that President Clinton was unavailable to approve orders for an airstrike on a bin Laden encampment during a two hour window of opportunity in 1998 when U.S. intelligence had his whereabouts pinpointed.

• Reports that Bin Laden swore revenge against the U.S. after Clinton administration's failed cruise missile attack on his Khost, Afghanistan encampment.

• President Clinton's admission in the same Feb. 2002 speech that he declined to launch a follow up attack against bin Laden's Khandahar headquarters because he was worried about violating the airspace of neighboring countries and killing innocent civilians.

• Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's allegation that Clinton refused to press the Saudis to turn over key witnesses in the Khobar Towers bombing investigation.

[TBall]

That was a long, long time ago and I can't recall.

[Semper Paratus]

It would be unprecedented for a sitting president to testify in Congress about anything much less policy in an on-going war!

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[mombonn]

clintbilly also "personally assured" the nation that he did not have sex with that woman . . .

He's a lying, cheating, traitor. Why even bother to call him?

He'll show up 6 hours late, and lie through his teeth. And, the media will play up his lies as truth while at the same time trashing anything Bush says.

I loathe them all.

[gathersnomoss]

Give me a f***ing break. He lies under oath for crying out loud. Please take this slime ball away, now. It is like we are watching a crappy rerun over and over and over again. He and Shillery are stinking up the joint.

The party is over. If only the press would let him die so we can RIP.

[Frank_Discussion]

"He'll show up 6 hours late, and lie through his teeth."

Suggestion: Sodium Pentathol and rubber hoses?

[Puppage]

Dang! Ya beat me to it!

I remember him looking at the camera during an interview & saying..."when this is all over, and I'm no longer president, I'm gunna have A LOT to say about this."

Well, wadda ya know? ANOTHER LIE from the Great Stainmaker himself.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

..."It was 3 OSAMA Offers that BILL CLINTON refused" =

....DICK MORRIS on The JUDICIAL WATCH Report Radio Show, June 28, 2003

Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE Guyer / Caller who asked MORRIS about the 3 OSAMA Offers that BILL CLINTON refused.

[hattend]

More BS. Clinton is so hard up to prove his relevence to society. He's still looking for legacy repair.

Just go away, Bill.

[CedarDave]

Legacy polishing.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Is there really anything he wouldn't do or agree to these days to get publicity?

[The Wizard]

why not, he's a liar, he doesn't care what he says....

[kdmhcdcfld]

I guess it depends on the meaning of the word "cooperate".

[ClearCase_guy]

It depends on the meaning of the word "September" and the meaning of the word "eleven".

[SquirrelKing]

"I did not have sex with this country..."

[dead]

My, uh, distinguished colleagues, I would like to say only that I did all I could. I persued the terrorists to the far corners of the earth in an effort to prevent this disaster. Unfortunately, I had no control over who would succeed me in office, so much of my efforts were wasted. I cried, Hillary and I cried, when we saw the terrible events of that day. We cried for the dead and we cried over how much of the progress we made in persuing terrorists had been lost in only eight short months.

I am not here to criticize the current administration… I am just here to point out that my administration would have never let this happen. And we cannot let tax cuts for the rich prevent us from rebuilding those lives shattered by this unfortunate and totally avoidable event.

Now I know you have questions about specific actions my administration may have taken, but I have a flight to catch...

[bandleader]

Christopher Ruddy,Carl(from Oyster Bay)Limbacher,and the staff at News Max "Ahead of the Curve" AS USUAL!!!!!!!!!

[bandleader]

EXACTLY!BeelzeBubba will "cooperate"as much as he did when he was under oath before a Federal Grand Jury!!!After that"cooperation",he was "Sanctioned"by Juge Susan Weber Wright(his former student)"For Making Deliberately False And Mis-Leading Statements To A Federal Grand Jury"!!The"Sanction"amounted to a $90,000 fine!!!Also,he was disbarred from EVER appearing before The Supreme Court(to plead a case),and disbarred for a mere five-years in Arkansas!!!!The ONLY help that he can give The United States of America is to just DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bandleader]

I've got a more "Creative" suggestion,How about hooking up his cojones(if you can find them)to a car battery?I will donate a dozen for this cause!!!!!!!