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  • Sept. 11 Panel Addresses Lewinsky Scandal

    07/24/2004 11:51:52 AM PDT · by dread78645 · 88 replies · 3,777+ views
    AP via TBO ^ | 2004-07-24 | DEB RIECHMANN
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission's final report says there's no evidence suggesting President Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes on Osama bin Laden targets to distract attention from his affair with Monica Lewinsky. But the report says the affair, coupled with other issues, likely affected later discussions about using force against the terrorist leader. Following U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the Clinton administration planned and launched cruise missile strikes on alleged terrorist assets of bin Laden in Sudan and Afghanistan. The report said reaction to the Aug. 20, 1998, strikes included "scalding criticism" that the action was "too...