I'm still waiting for one of you lying libs to refute this!
Clinton: So we tried to be quite aggressive with them [al Qaeda]. We got – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.
Clinton Passed on Killing bin Laden? | FactCheck.org
Clinton later claimed he "misspoke" on this. What he means is Sandy Burgler removed the evidence for this, so now he could deny it!
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm
During a February 2002 speech, Clinton explained that he turned down an offer from Sudan for bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., saying, "At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him."
But that wasn't exactly true. By 1996, the 9/11 mastermind had already been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by prosecutors in New York.
9/11 Commissioner former Sen. Bob Kerrey said that Clinton told the Commission during his private interview that reports of his comments to the LIA were based on "a misquote."
During his interview with the 9/11 Commission, Clinton was accompanied by longtime aide and former White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, along with former national security advisor Sandy Berger, who insisted in sworn testimony before Congress in Sept. 2002 that there was never any offer from Sudanese officials to turn over bin Laden to the U.S.
But other evidence suggests the Clinton administration did not take advantage of offers to get bin Laden -- and that the Monica Lewinsky scandal was exploding during this time period.
At least two offers from the government of Sudan to arrest Osama bin Laden and turn him over to the U.S. were rebuffed by the Clinton administration in February and March of 1996, a period of time when the former president's attention was distracted by his intensifying relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
One of the offers took place during a secret meeting in Washington, the same day Clinton was meeting with Lewinsky in the White House just miles away.
On Feb. 6, 1996, then-U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Tim Carney met with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Osman Mohammed Taha at Taha's home in the capital city of Khartoum. The meeting took place just a half mile from bin Laden's residence at the time, according to Richard Miniter's book "Losing bin Laden."
During the meeting, Carney reminded the Sudanese official that Washington was increasingly nervous about the presence of bin Laden in Sudan, reports Miniter.
Foreign Minister Taha countered by saying that Sudan was very concerned about its poor relationship with the U.S.
Then came the bombshell offer:
"If you want bin Laden, we will give you bin Laden," Foreign Minister Taha told Ambassador Carney.
On Tape, Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden Capture; Lewinsky Played Role
The fact of the matter is, the above is why (OBVIOUSLY) Sandy Burgler stole documents from the National Archives. To cover Clinton's trail and give him cover for him NOW to claim "he was obsessed with getting Bin Laden."
BS! As usual CLINTON LIED, EVERYONE ABOVE THE 75 FLOOR OF THE WTC DIED!
THERE ARE REASONS Clinton is held accountable for 9/11.
The Clinton admin put up walls between the intelligence agencies MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO COORDINATE INTELLIGENCE.
He put up rules that they couldn't use informants who had any ties to terrorism, MEANING THEY COULDN'T GET TERRORISM INFO, PERIOD!
He IGNORED TERRORISM ON HIS WATCH, rather than risk his "approval numbers" and treated it as only a "law enforcement" problem.
And finally, he, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, was offered Bin Laden and he TURNED IT DOWN, because he didn't want to deal with that hot potato.
For all these reasons, Clinton will be held responsible, I don't care how many red faced hysterical rantings he has with Chris Wallace.
