Republican tried unsuccessfully to remove him from office over his lying about getting blown by Monica. They didn't give a shit about the threat of terrorism. Their enemy was in the White House.
Who was in charge? good grief man!
Rebubs were not in charge Clinton was,his responsibility to address,he failed,and all the pathetic spin you blubber out will never change that fact
CLINTON WAS THE PRESIDENT
Yes President Clinton was in office when he lied about getting a blow job. President Bush was in office when he lied about Iraq's WMD programs, and ties to al Qaeda. Which lie cost the most in terms of human suffering?
That lie about wmds has been proven wrong. Nothing to see here.
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed
WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the
CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.
On April 23, 2006, CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam’s foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. “We continued to validate him the whole way through,” said Drumheller. “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.”
Now two former senior CIA officers have confirmed Drumheller’s account to me and provided the background to the story of how the information that might have stopped the invasion of Iraq was twisted in order to justify it.
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Salon.com