The CIA refused to certify WHAT? Notice how he left that hanging ... so Clintonian. Perhaps the CIA could not certify absolutely 100% they could take out Bin Laden without endangering anyone else? I wonder precisely what he was asking the CIA to certify to?
Was he denying that an incident similar to the one in Path to 9/11 occurred---where the CIA agent and his guys had bin Laden surrounded and in their sites and they couldn't get a "go" order from the administration?
Is Klintoon saying he authorized hits such as this, but somehow the word didn't get down to the ground? Or he authorized it, but his staff willfully defied his orders? Or just what?