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  • 9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden

    03/24/2004 8:05:53 AM PST · by Carl/NewsMax · 19 replies · 161+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | March 24, 2004 | Carl Limbacher
    Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that made the task of neutralizing the terrorist kingpin infinitely more difficult. In a statement read at the beginning of Wednesday's session, 9/11 staffer Michael Hurley revealed: "CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden. "They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible...