Bill Clinton stopped CIA from killing
bin Laden before 9/11: Documentary
Washington Examiner,
by
Zachary Halaschak
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/22/2020 4:58:26 AM
Former President Bill Clinton signed an order preventing the CIA from organizing a kill operation against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a new documentary.
The revelation is discussed by former CIA station chief Bob Grenier in the new Showtime documentary The Longest War, which was released Tuesday. Grenier, who was based in Islamabad, Pakistan, explained that the agency was permitted to engage in “lethal activity” against the terrorist leader but could not perform a strike with the explicit purpose of killing him.
“We were being asked to remove this threat to the United States essentially with one hand tied behind our backs,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Peaches 4/22/2020 5:17:55 AM (No. 387286)
Yet another reason to despise that rapist.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 4/22/2020 6:04:32 AM (No. 387300)
Not surprising at all
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GO3 4/22/2020 6:54:15 AM (No. 387323)
Oh, come on. OBL wasn't even on the ICs radar before 9-11. Clinton was a corn pone grifter, but don't pass the buck for the CIA's lack of vigilance - on Showtime yet.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jinx 4/22/2020 7:35:00 AM (No. 387357)
Those were the documents in the National Archives that Sandy Berger stole and shredded in order to protect the Clintons. There is a lot more to this story than meets the eye.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NancyD 4/22/2020 7:46:53 AM (No. 387371)
This is old news. Rush spoke about this 15 + years ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/22/2020 7:52:11 AM (No. 387375)
Bill Clinton should have been castrated - those trips with Epstein to Lolita Island, what was he doing there? With MINORS? Pervert should have been cut.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
govlawyer 4/22/2020 7:56:36 AM (No. 387381)
I'm still surprised that obongo allowed the Seals to do the job they did on him. Clintoon and his cabal (Reno and Holder) were too concerned with giving bin Laden a trial (and the security nightmare that it would have brought to downtown Manhattan).
Still, I hope that before they dumped him in the drink, the Navy put a pound of bacon in the shroud so he had a snack to take with him on his way to his rendezvous with his virgins.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/22/2020 8:04:34 AM (No. 387392)
Does anyone still wonder why the documentary “The Path to 9/11” was pulled from television after only one episode was shown?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TCloud 4/22/2020 8:11:40 AM (No. 387397)
FUBAR and Bill Clinton are one and the same!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/22/2020 8:13:12 AM (No. 387399)
I don't believe much of anything the CIA says, and I don't believe much of anything Dollar Bill Clinton says.
what to do...what to do...what to do?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena 4/22/2020 8:17:33 AM (No. 387404)
Will this show be suppressed like The Road to 9/11? Clinton's inaction has long been known but the media ignore it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/22/2020 8:28:41 AM (No. 387419)
#8, the television presentation of "The Path to 9/11" WAS pulled after just one showing on ABC network.
I had to order my copy from Canada in order to see it again, since I only had an off-air VHS copy with commercials on VHS.
There are just some things that are kept from us-- Like BJ Clinton, NOBAMA had Osama corned more than once, but he protected him until it was becoming obvious that he could not let him get away AGAIN.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/22/2020 8:32:41 AM (No. 387423)
Yes, #12, that was my point.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 4/22/2020 8:40:31 AM (No. 387434)
I recall that during the same time period during which Clinton found time for nine private meetings with Lewinski, he declined a meeting request by the CIA chief at least a half-dozen times.
Now tell me the private-life-morality of an elected official has no bearing on his conduct of his public office.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pros7767 4/22/2020 8:46:57 AM (No. 387446)
On the contrary #3, OBL was on a lot of radars before 9/11. The 93 bombing of the World Trade Center and the attack on the USS Cole put him there.
There are special places in hell for Bill and his wife. What would the world be like? My stepson would still be alive since he didn't go to Iraq. I'd probably be a grandmother. Countless servicemen wouldn't have lost their lives and limbs. Many in the NYPD and NYFD would still be alive for starts.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/22/2020 9:34:06 AM (No. 387513)
I, too, was disappointed that the "Path to 9/11" was pulled. BJ, members of his administration, and ABC know why.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/22/2020 9:40:30 AM (No. 387522)
Go back in history and read the newspapers of the time. The Clinton Administration was more focused on suing Bill Gates and Microsoft over the monopoly of Internet Explorer bundled with Windows 98 than they were in finding a heinous scum terrorist and vaporizing him.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Gallo3 4/22/2020 9:41:36 AM (No. 387526)
The interaction with Bin Laden and BJ Clinton went back to the time in 1996 when Sudanese dictator al-Bashiri offered to turn Bin Laden over to the US. Bin Laden and Egyptian Islamic Jihad operating out of Sudan had tried to whack Hosni Mubarak and al Bashiri felt pressure from neighboring countries. It is then that Clinton likely scribbled something in the Presidential daily Briefing margin to his National Security Adviser Sandy Berger to the effect that rather than take Bin Laden into custody, they could sweat him for a large chunk of cash. These documents with BJ margin notes were what Berger and Clinton were worried enough about to send Berger into the National Archives -twice- to steal and destroy before the 9-11 Commission got hold of them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/22/2020 10:07:44 AM (No. 387561)
Probably the reason Bill Clinton signed an order preventing the CIA from organizing a kill operation against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was he was letting the little head to do the thinking for the big head.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 4/22/2020 10:23:40 AM (No. 387574)
Oliver North spoke about Bin Laden and how evil he was. VP Gore made fun of him. Bin Laden had been on the radar screen long before 911.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/22/2020 10:26:09 AM (No. 387579)
The CIA would have effed up the operation anyhow, just like they did with Fidel numerous times, and also with Khomeini. They are the original gang that couldn't shoot straight
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/22/2020 10:29:23 AM (No. 387583)
I don't give any recognition or attention to could have done it---but didn't.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/22/2020 10:33:27 AM (No. 387588)
Oh, come on...this is classic "It's not MY fault" government CYA. These jobs can be contracted out. No fingerprints. Begging the question...we're our Saudi allies protecting this guy? Maybe Dubya asked his good family friend and Saudi ambasador Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud while puffing cigars on the White House patio as he allowed Saudis to scramble home after 9/11.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/22/2020 10:38:41 AM (No. 387600)
Sheez. Who didn't know this?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
plaids 4/22/2020 10:40:44 AM (No. 387605)
I remember watching "The Path to 9/11". Aired one time and never aired again.
Maybe Bill looks like a cadaver because he is actually racked with guilt.
The spouse is true evil to the core!!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
thehutchcom 4/22/2020 10:56:11 AM (No. 387628)
It's time for ABC to release "The Path to 9/11" on DVD...with the unaltered scene restored or as an extra... already!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
GO3 4/22/2020 10:59:01 AM (No. 387633)
#15, I may have made a too dismissive statement about OBL, but I will say he was - as far as publicly known - barely a blip on the radar. Both the Cole bombing and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center were attributed to different people in the immediate sense. Very often we take an interest in hindsight to these early events to realize the full Order of Battle of our adversaries. Grenier as station chief in Islamabad, would know OBL from the Soviet War in Afghanistan. But honestly, who would have realized the significance of an ethnic Yemeni who was a cashiered Saudi engineer and banished from the kingdom to the caves of Afghanistan rapidly establishing a global terror group? This is just me, but to this day I think the guy was a convenient figurehead for something or someone much larger. JMO.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 4/22/2020 11:13:59 AM (No. 387651)
Nothing new here. The Democrats squealed like stuck pigs when Trump took out the world's top terrorist, Solemani. I doubt there is a single individual target of consequence they would approve of terminating.
I take that back. They'd assassinate Trump if they could get away with it. Probably McConnell too.
[And before the haters pounce, Bin Laden was the exception that proves the rule. It isn't that Obama wanted OBL dead, it's that Obama couldn't survive politically if he could, but refused to, take OBL out and word of his decision leaked.]
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
garyhope 4/22/2020 11:17:53 AM (No. 387658)
"doings"?
We used to call it something else.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/22/2020 12:00:19 PM (No. 387722)
The Bent One should have married Monica Lewinsky and he would have been a much happier and relaxed fellow.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/22/2020 12:18:20 PM (No. 387746)
John Brennan was station chief in Saudi Arabia when Clinton was in the WH. Seems that Brennan overrode the embassy denial of visas to all those hijackers and let them come into the country. It is all starting to come out now, how Clinton's WH may have been ground zero for the hijackers to be able to form their terrorist plot in the US.
Clinton is a loathsome animal, and he has a very special judgment coming some day for what he allowed to harm this nation during his presidency.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/22/2020 12:20:05 PM (No. 387751)
#3, Clinton himself says he had THREE opportunities to have OBL handed to him on a silver platter by other nations. But he turned all the offers down, because he was worried about the optics for his presidency. This is not BS, Clinton allowed all the players into the nation so they could set up their plan.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/22/2020 1:18:52 PM (No. 387831)
Clinton, like W and 0, was POTUS in name only. He didn't make any national or international decisions, he did what he was told by his handlers. The only decisions Willie made was with and for his "willy".
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/22/2020 1:24:07 PM (No. 387840)
We have been under the thumb of the deep state swamp for our entire lives.
Don’t expect the truth soon....
About ANYTHING
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 4/22/2020 2:06:00 PM (No. 387902)
#3, you massively underestimate the criminal nature of BillyJeff.
I suggest you find a copy of a book, "Compromised" by Terry Reed. I knew Mr. Reed for a few years, and his wife and kids, and believe the book is the straight truth.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/22/2020 4:11:11 PM (No. 388011)
The Clintons would not kill Osama if they thought that they could turn a buck from him first! Don’t You know!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Janylou 4/22/2020 7:18:56 PM (No. 388158)
This info came out after 9/11/2001
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
or gate 4/22/2020 8:55:17 PM (No. 388212)
Just a little organized corruption. Not much
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
or gate 4/22/2020 9:00:26 PM (No. 388215)
I just wonder where the little arab fits into this. (Our X prez)
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/22/2020 9:41:05 PM (No. 388245)
And to think that Bathhouse made Clinton look like a patriot...
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