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A videotape aired by NBC Wednesday reportedly shows Usama bin Laden at an al Qaeda training camp in 2000. Secretly recorded by a CIA drone in Afghanistan, it shows a tall figure in flowing white robes walking at Tarnak Farm, where bid Laden was known to reside. In her news report, Lisa Myers, senior investigative correspondent for NBC said, "The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al Qaeda a year before 9/11." She added, "But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why...

The Central Intelligence Agency is expected to launch a probe into the leak of a secret videotape of Osama bin Laden walking through his Afghanistan compound in the fall of 2000. The tape, broadcast by NBC News on Tuesday, shows that the Clinton administration blew a golden opportunity to take out the terrorist kingpin and prevent the 9/11 attacks. "There will be an investigation within the CIA, which made the video, and they will decide whether or not to refer the matter to the Department of Justice," reported CNN national security correspondent David Ensor on Wednesday. CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer...

RUSH: Some of you may have seen this last night, NBC, Lisa Myers has begun a three-part series. She was the first to gain access to secret government videotapes which make it appear that Osama bin Laden was seen by CIA cameras one year before 9-11 took place. "As the 9/11 commission investigates what Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush might have done to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one piece of evidence the commission will examine is a videotape secretly recorded by a CIA plane high above Afghanistan. The tape shows a man believed to Osama...

CIA to Probe bin Laden Tape Leak to NBC The Central Intelligence Agency is expected to launch a probe into the leak of a secret videotape of Osama bin Laden walking through his Afghanistan compound in the fall of 2000. The tape, broadcast by NBC News on Tuesday, shows that the Clinton administration blew a golden opportunity to take out the terrorist kingpin and prevent the 9/11 attacks. "There will be an investigation within the CIA, which made the video, and they will decide whether or not to refer the matter to the Department of Justice," reported CNN national security...

Alert JYB reader James G. sends in this bombshell: SEN. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them. Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed...

The CIA had Osama bin Laden in its gunsights a year before 9-11, but because the Clinton White House had ordered agents to take bin Laden alive or not at all, he lived on to kill another day: secret CIA videotape shows that the Clinton administration had pinpointed the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks, but declined to kill him because of White House orders that he should be taken alive. The video, obtained and broadcast by NBC News, "illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden," the network...

A secret CIA videotape shows that the Clinton administration had pinpointed the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks, but declined to kill him because of White House orders that he should be taken alive. The video, obtained and broadcast by NBC News, "illustrates an enormous opportunity the Clinton administration had to kill or capture bin Laden," the network reported Tuesday. Images filmed in Afghanistan by CIA Predator Drones show a man clad in white robes who towers over his entourage. [Bin Laden is 6' 5" tall.] The film was shot over Tarnak Farm, the walled...

As the 9/11 commission investigates what Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush might have done to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one piece of evidence the commission will examine is a videotape secretly recorded by a CIA plane high above Afghanistan. The tape shows a man believed to Osama bin Laden walking at a known al-Qaida camp. advertisement The question for the 9/11 commission: If the CIA was able to get that close to bin Laden before 9/11, why wasn’t he captured or killed? The videotape has remained secret until now. Over the next three nights, NBC...

Thursday, Mar. 18, 2004 9:15 AM EST Media Blackout on Damning CIA Video News of a bombshell CIA videotape that shows the Clinton administration had Osama bin Laden in its crosshairs but failed to take him out has been deep-sixed by most mainstream press outlets in the U.S. More than 36 hours after NBC News broadcast the secret footage of bin Laden out in the open at his Tarnack Farms compound, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press and dozens of other prestigious main press outlets have embargoed the story. Around the world...