Bullshit. Clinton ironically addressed this just 10 hours before the attacks.
Just 10 hours before the attacks of September 11, 2001, ex-President Bill Clinton was in Australia saying he had a chance to take the former al-Qaeda leader out — but passed
At the time, bin Laden was lesser known to the general public but was on the FBI's Most Wanted list for his role in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Clinton was in Melbourne, speaking to a small group of business leaders on Sept. 10, 2001, and he was asked about terrorism.
"I nearly got him once,” Clinton says in the recording. "I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I just didn't do it."