CIA to Probe bin Laden Tape Leak to NBC

NM ^ | March 17, 2004 | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[ApplegateRanch]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4549030/

You can find it here.

[Rocky]

Every time the Democrats get caught with their pants down, they cry "foul". Incriminating e-mails between Senators? Prosecute the one who revealed them. Clinton let bin Laden get away? Find the criminal who released that information.

[Prince Charles]

Ensor explained that the decision to release the tape may have been a politically motivated attempt to smear the legacy of ex-President Clinton.

Ummm, the real Clinton legacy is already smeared -- all over Monica's blue dress.

[McGavin999]

Oh please, we've been seeing the kinds of pictures taken by the Preditors since Afghanistan.

[ApplegateRanch]

Crud; no it isn't; that is the 'next installment' concerning Bush. Sorry.

[TonyM]

I have a great idea. We should train pigs strapped with explosives to search mountains and caves of Afghanistan and to blow up when they find someone. The idea of being killed by exploding pig gets would put the fear in all Muslims.

[TonyM]

gets=guts

[nutmeg]

Here's a little something to add to the 'ol Klintoon legacy...

Excerpt from National Review Online, September 11, 2003:

Clinton’s Loss?
How the previous administration fumbled on bin Laden.

A Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory091103b.asp

Lopez: In sum, how many times did Bill Clinton lose bin Laden?

Miniter: Here's a rundown. The Clinton administration:

1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.

2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.

3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.

4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.

6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.

7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.

8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan.

9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.

10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.

11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.

12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.

15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist.

16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole.

[Political Junkie Too]

CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer argued that the video broadcast by NBC may have seriously damaged national security.

Based on recent events, I would have thought that Mr. Blitzer would be more interested in the manner of the leaking of the tape, rather than in the contents of the tape.

-PJ

[technomage]

CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer argued that the video broadcast by NBC may have seriously damaged national security.

Translation: We here at CNN are so damn mad that NBC aired that footage before we could that we will even stoop to defending national security to beat down the infidels at NBC.

[Finalapproach29er]

Heads should roll.

This is inexcusable. IMO

[I got the rope]

I think it's a 6 year appointment.

[rottndog]

He can be fired anytime POTUS thinks necessary. They ALL look bad in this, Bush included.

[nutmeg]

bttt

[BigSkyFreeper]

You can bet that a Predator drone flying over Afghanistan or a member of our fine fighting forces on the ground today spots OBL, Bush will give the order to fire, rather than roll over for the UN like Clinton did many times.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Without a doubt -- but I truly resent that Clintigula's fecklessness and cowardice put us in this position in the first place.

[Jim_Curtis]

NBC must have reported the "Bin Laden sighting" story for a reason...there is another shoe that they expect to be dropped. Was someone on the Bush team pushing a bad Clinton like policy and NBC will damage Clinton to open this door to get to him/her?

[Just mythoughts]

Wonder if this is not a preemptive strike before "Clarke's" tell all book comes out?

I do believe that these lying crooked liberals have been wanting to see the "INTEL", could be this is a warning shot across the bow.

[OneTimeLurker]

I know that Ashcroft argued that Drugs were the biggest threat facing America when Louis Freh told him it was terrorism upon Ashcroft becoming AG.

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