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CLINTON STOPPED CIA FROM KILLING BIN LADEN

Boortz [1] seems to be hitting some home runs of late. Of course, they’re on subjects we already knew… just most of the left hasn’t gottenh around to admitting it yet:

“Announcing some of its preliminary findings yesterday, the commission confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama Bin Laden alive or not at all.  The following statement read at yesterday’s session says it all: ‘CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try and capture Bin Laden.’  A former CIA station chief said ‘We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him.’  A former CIA official told NBC News last week that White House orders to spare Bin Laden’s life cut the chances of getting him in half.  Once again, they viewed terrorism as a law enforcement problem, worrying about Bin Laden’s rights instead of just unleashing the CIA to exterminate him.
If this commission wants to lay blame for policy failures that led to 9/11, then they need to do it where it belongs, with the Clinton administration and Richard Clarke.

Emph is mine.

Again, he’s right, of course.