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Posner: Clinton’s Negligence Led to 9/11
NewsMax ^ | September 4, 2003 | Dave Eberhart

Posted on 09/04/2003 9:35:51 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy

Posner: Clinton’s Negligence Led to 9/11

Dave Eberhart and NewsMax.com Staff
Thursday, Sept. 4, 2003
Best-selling author Gerald Posner says much of the blame for 9/11 and the U.S. government’s negligence falls squarely on the shoulders of Bill Clinton and his administration.

In a stunning revelation made in his just released “Why America Slept: the Failure to Prevent 9/11” – Posner asserts the disaster of Sept. 11 could have been prevented and that President Clinton passed on more than one opportunity to arrest or kill Osama bin Laden.

Posner describes one incident in 1996 when Clinton passed on an easy opportunity to nab bin Laden.

“When bin Laden leaves the Sudan on a chartered commercial airliner with 150 of his top aides and his family, he goes to Qatar to refuel on his way to Pakistan,” Posner recounted to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Wednesday night.

Posner continued: “And Qatar, being an ally of the U.S. calls up and says ‘what should we do with this guy?’

“And the word comes back from the top of the [Clinton] administration ‘let him land and proceed on to Pakistan.’”

Posner’s revelations come on top of one previously reported on NewsMax.com - that Clinton himself admitted he turned down an offer by Sudanese authorities to have bin Laden extradited in 1996.

But Posner’s revelations show just how close U.S. authorities came to capturing bin Laden – but was allowed to go free and implement a worldwide terror spree.

“Why America Slept” paints a picture of gross negligence from the Clinton administration.

“We just weren't focused on Islamic militants,” Posner told NBC’s Katie Couric Wednesday, explaining, “You had President Clinton in an eight-year period, there was two years he met with the head of the CIA twice. That was it. He just wasn't attuned to foreign policy or the issue of terrorism.”

Posner told O’Reilly his investigation of Clinton’s handling of bin Laden left him disgusted.

“This is from a fellow who voted twice for Clinton,” a repentant Posner said. “I wouldn’t do it again.”

Posner argues that had the Republicans been in charge in the 90s, he would have demanded the same accountability.

“I was infuriated. My blood kept boiling as I realized that eight of these ten years leading up to 9/11 were under his watch – and the job that was done was just terrible.”

Posner doesn’t buy arguments that bin Laden was not perceived as a great threat in 1996.

He notes that the CIA came to Clinton with significant evidence about bin Laden before 1996. “He didn’t put bin Laden on the wanted list until 1996, and he doesn’t pull the trigger time and time again.”

Posner is angered that instead of honing up to their culpability for 9/11, Clinton and top aides have been engaging in a false, “revisionist history.”

“You have Berger, you have Albright, and you have Clinton saying this was priority one; we wanted bin Laden with everything we had.”

Saudi Role

What was in those infamous 28 pages censored from Washington's official report on 9/11? Gerald Posner makes some startling revelations in “Why America Slept.”

Posner not only weaves a riveting tale of U.S. intelligence blunders that led to 9/11, he also makes the shocking disclosure of a Saudi-Pakistani-Osama terrorism triangle that should cause U.S. leaders to re-assess exactly who our friends are.

Posner, a former Wall Street lawyer and award-winning author of eight books on subjects ranging from Nazi war criminals, to assassinations (he debunked claims of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination), to the careers of politicians, spent 18 months investigating 9/11 -- uncovering explosive new evidence through interviews and in classified documents.

He reveals in “Why America Slept:"



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; bookreview; clinton; geraldposner; terrorists; traitor; whyamericaslept
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To: Credo
Star was is and always will be worthless. I knew about Bin Laden. Bill Clinton didn't? I'm buying that one...

If we had the plane full of Osama and his family on the ground in Qatar, and we did nothing, people are going to be livid.
21 posted on 09/04/2003 10:27:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: mystery-ak
"So, what was Katie's response to all of this info....anyone?"

Frankly, I'm surprised Katie had Posner on at all. Maybe she wasn't properly briefed and assumed Posner would blame everything on Bush.
22 posted on 09/04/2003 10:28:27 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: mystery-ak
"So, what was Katie's response to all of this info....anyone?"

Frankly, I'm surprised Katie had Posner on at all. Maybe she wasn't properly briefed and assumed Posner would blame everything on Bush.
23 posted on 09/04/2003 10:28:59 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: martianagent
bookmark
24 posted on 09/04/2003 10:30:29 AM PDT by martianagent
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To: Steve_Seattle
Well. . . what happened? What was her response?

BTW: Bump Franken down the list!
25 posted on 09/04/2003 10:31:52 AM PDT by jmstein7
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To: jmstein7
"Well. . . what happened? What was her response?"

I don't know - I didn't see it. I was just commenting that I was surprised she even had Posner on.
26 posted on 09/04/2003 10:37:30 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: Steve_Seattle
"So, what was Katie's response to all of this info....anyone?"

She musta thought it was Vladamir Posner and she could get her talking points from the source rather than filtered by the DNC!

Pray for GW and the Truth

27 posted on 09/04/2003 10:59:13 AM PDT by bray ( Old Glory Stands for Freedom)
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To: drdeath
. Is it true what I heard that Bush flew out the Bin Laden's out of the country right after 9/11??

Nah, but he had no legal right to stop them.

29 posted on 09/04/2003 11:08:32 AM PDT by concerned about politics (Lucifers lefties are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
BTTT
30 posted on 09/04/2003 11:16:11 AM PDT by ImphClinton
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To: Steve_Seattle
You're right, it wasn't Starr's responsibility under the Constitution. Starr is more of a litigator than an investigator. Hopefully he does better with the Campaign Finance Reform nonsense.

The House and Senate (More the Senate than the House) failed us.

31 posted on 09/04/2003 11:24:27 AM PDT by Credo
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To: drdeath
I've been pretty tough on Bush. I didn't vote for him and there is plenty that troubles me about him. I've tried to bend over backwards to be fair to him, but there are some issues that just plain wreak!

With regard to the Carlyle group, I've been pretty forgiving. If it were Clinton's buds involved with it I'd have made far more extrapolations based on it than I have with Bush's family. The left is pretty animated about this topic. In this instance they may have a point. Since they trash everthing Bush and his family do from sunup to sundown, it's hard to take them serious on any issue. This is probably one that we should all consider more than we do.

That being said, there are dynamics at play in the middle east that make our playing along with the Saudis more valid than surface appearance issues might support. I'm not convinced that we are justified in continuing our relationship with them, although I'm willing to concede that for long term strategic purposes, it would be best if we could get them to clean up their act and remain engaged with them. There are valid counterarguements, to be sure.

I'm sure Bush reviewed the departure of Bin Laden's family from the U.S. I would imagine that these folks had been under some pretty close scrutiny (but then who knows, as incompetent as our security people have been), and if they weren't involved in any shady activity, I don't see why they shouldn't have been allowed to leave.

I would have had a tap on their phones 24/7/365. I just hope our officials could string the need for that together.
32 posted on 09/04/2003 11:38:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: mewzilla
but who hit then, the Saudis, or the CIA?
34 posted on 09/04/2003 12:04:43 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: oceanview
then=them
35 posted on 09/04/2003 12:04:56 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Oh Lord, Another book to read (and buy for others as Christmas presents) about Billy Jeffs Gross Malfeasance.I don't know anyone who will throw a book away.Example: I bought 8 copies of "The Venona Secrets" a few Christmas' ago for people who were RINO'S. They all have read it and several have since admitted that they have been snookered/Lied to by the left all these years. Buy a book for a friend/relative, it will get opened ,if eventually.The ones that denied the facts in "The Venona Secrets", are humans who simply cannot be helped.
36 posted on 09/04/2003 12:24:49 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug, Holier - Than - Thou Socialist)
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To: concerned about politics
We sure do.
37 posted on 09/04/2003 12:25:31 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Bubba_Leroy
On July 22, 2002, Prince Ahmed dies of a heart attack at 43; a day later Prince Turki, 41, is killed in “a high-speed car accident.” The last member, Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, mysteriously perishes of thirst while traveling east of Riyadh - just a week after. Finally, seven months later, Mir perishes in a plane crash.

Sounds to me like Hillary got involved as well. If this is all true, which I believe it is, then the Clintons and their minions should be tried for treason.
38 posted on 09/04/2003 12:33:23 PM PDT by Lucky2 (I hope some day I see Hillary and Bill in handcuffs attached to a big burly prison guard.)
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To: concerned about politics
Nah, but he had no legal right to stop them

Beg to differ:

Citing Clarke, the magazine reports that within a week of the hijackings private planes picked up individuals from 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston and Boston. Aviation officials complained the flights took place before the government had lifted flight restrictions for the general public.

"We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history and here we were seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens. ... I wanted to go the highest levels in Washington," Tom Kinton, director of aviation at Boston's Logan International Airport, told the magazine. Kinton said it was clear the operation had the blessings of federal authorities.

Once the flight ban was lifted, two jumbo jets transported the Saudis out of the country. The Boston Globe reported at the time that two flights bound for Saudi Arabia with members of the bin Laden clan on board left Logan on Sept. 18 and 19. Other reports put the departure date at Sept. 14.


No one else was flying. Why give those rag bags special treatment?
39 posted on 09/05/2003 10:10:29 PM PDT by Kozak (" No mans life liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session." Mark Twain)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
“I was infuriated. My blood kept boiling as I realized that eight of these ten years leading up to 9/11 were under his watch – and the job that was done was just terrible.”

We knew that! And now we have Bubbanuts telling everyone, "I worked so hard on getting Bin Laden, I never worked so hard on anything in my life!"

And Bush is the liar, right democrats and some freepers?

40 posted on 09/05/2003 10:22:02 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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