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| Clinton Lawyers Fretted Over bin Laden's Comfort |
| 2005-08-21 |
| The CIA's former bin Laden desk chief revealed Thursday night that Clinton administration lawyers warned counterterrorism agents that Osama bin Laden had to be kept as comfortable as possible if they captured him during planned raids into Afghanistan. "The lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden`s safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him," former bin Laden desk chief Michael Scheuer told MSNBC's "Hardball." "We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, [for] special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair," Scheuer explained. "They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard." "The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community," the former CIA man lamented. Concerns like that, as well as foot-dragging by the White House, resulted in one missed opportunity after another to get the al-Qaida terror mastermind, Scheuer said. "We had at least eight to 10 chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in 1998 and 1999. And the government on all occasions decided that the information was not good enough to act," he claimed. Although sharply critical of President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, the CIA counterterrorism specialist put the blame for bin Laden's escape firmly on Clinton. "In terms of which administration had more chances, Mr. Clinton's administration had far more chances to kill Osama bin Laden than Mr. Bush has until this day," Scheuer said. Now imagine how the WoT would be going if John Kerry had been elected? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 POTUS Kerry = POTUS Dean = POTUS Gore = POTUS Hillary > even iff Amerika "wins", it must lose. The DemoLefties are just depending on the GOP "Fascists" to create new global empire while quietly or indir promo themselves as the SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH, "SOCIALIST" AND BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO FASCISM, i.e. COMMUNISM. You know the DemoLeft has nuthng/is bad when BILL MAHER of "Liberals have told the truth" fame starts to distinquish or clarify himself from BOTH THE DEMS AND US LEFT!? ALL THE LEFTIES AND HILLARY HAVE TO RUN ON IS NEW 9-11's AND US MIL DEFEAT, BESIDES OF COURSE BOTH FOR/AGS ANY SIDE PC WAFFLISMS!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-08-21 22:53 |
| #4 More importantly is MSN actually allowing someone to speak critically of Clinton. What a nice event for the truth to get out to the people. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-08-21 20:56 |
| #3 If anything destroys Western Civilization, it won't be Al Quaeda, it will be toxic legalism. |
| Posted by: dushan 2005-08-21 20:46 |
| #2 Again it's lawyers. People wake up lawyers are just a bit less evil than the religious Fascists and lawyers are just above Journalists. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-08-21 20:14 |
| #1 Now imagine how the WoT would be going if John Kerry had been elected? We'd be hearing every day how we're winning. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-21 18:26 |