Filmed by a Predator drone, the video was transmitted back to the CIA in real time, a technological feat that gave the Clinton White House more than enough time to launch cruise missiles from submarines stationed in the Arabian Sea, where they had been deployed for just that purpose.
But if Clarke knows why the ex-president failed to pull the trigger, he isn't saying. Nor did Stahl ask him about Clinton's admission a year after he left office that he turned down Sundan's offer to arrest bin Laden five years before the attacks.
Why didn’t Clinton kill Osama when he had the chance? Because he was playing golf and could not be bothered to be briefed by the CIA until it was too late!