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To: Howlin
Michael Scheuer is the senior intelligence analyst who created and advised a secret CIA unit for tracking and eliminating bin Laden since 1996.

In other words, this guy's been an abject failure.

4 posted on 11/17/2004 11:02:38 AM PST by My2Cents ("The bombing begins in five minutes...")
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To: My2Cents

He quit last Friday because the CIA wouldn't let him go on TV to promote his book.

Note he quit AFTER Goss got there.

Do not fail to read this one, too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281603/posts

by David Frum and he NAILS this guy.


15 posted on 11/17/2004 11:06:16 AM PST by Howlin (I love the smell of mandate in the morning.)
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To: My2Cents
No, He isn't....

One of the last proposals, which he described to the 9/11 Commission in a closed-door session, involved a cruise missile attack against a remote hunting camp in the Afghan desert, where bin Laden was believed to be socializing with members of the royal family from the United Arab Emirates.

Scheuer wanted to level the entire camp. "The world is lousy with Arab princes," says Scheuer. "And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."

"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince," asks Kroft. <

"Probably not. Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' That if those princes were out there eating goat with Osama bin Laden, then maybe they were there for nefarious reasons. But nonetheless, they would have been the price of battle."

You'll notice 60 Minutes chose not to date this incident (though it is misleading to call it one of his last proposals...). the 9/11 Commission did.

Bill Clinton is the Abject Failure.

18 posted on 11/17/2004 11:07:38 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: My2Cents

Yes, an abject failure who jumped before he was fired for just cause.


37 posted on 11/17/2004 11:14:10 AM PST by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: My2Cents

Complete failure. And a damn indictment of the absolute dumbing down that took place during the PC years under Clinton. That fool put politics above everything, national security being the most glaring example. Worst President ever.


80 posted on 11/17/2004 12:00:39 PM PST by kinghorse
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