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President Clinton Questioned CIAs Case on bin Laden
Then-President Bill Clinton expressed concern in an April 1999 memo that the Central Intelligence Agency might have exaggerated the case for capturing Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Mr. Clinton was responding to a New York Times article on April 13, 1999 by Tim Weiner that said firsthand evidence of the al Qaeda leaders involvement in the explosions that ripped through two American embassies in Africa earlier that year had proven difficult to obtain. Mr. Weiner wrote that reporting had yielded the conclusion that bin Laden was less a commander of terrorists than an inspiration for them. (See this document, pages 1 and 2.)
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President Clinton Questioned CIA?s Case on bin Laden - Washington Wire - WSJ
All I have to say is wow! He thought the CIA overstates it's case based on a NYT article? Really? Scary.
Then-President Bill Clinton expressed concern in an April 1999 memo that the Central Intelligence Agency might have exaggerated the case for capturing Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Mr. Clinton was responding to a New York Times article on April 13, 1999 by Tim Weiner that said firsthand evidence of the al Qaeda leaders involvement in the explosions that ripped through two American embassies in Africa earlier that year had proven difficult to obtain. Mr. Weiner wrote that reporting had yielded the conclusion that bin Laden was less a commander of terrorists than an inspiration for them. (See this document, pages 1 and 2.)
More:
President Clinton Questioned CIA?s Case on bin Laden - Washington Wire - WSJ
All I have to say is wow! He thought the CIA overstates it's case based on a NYT article? Really? Scary.