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| 2020-04-22 |
| [DailyBeast] Former President Bill Clinton has talked openly about how he could have killed Osama bin Laden;but passed. "I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I just didn't do it," Clinton confessed to an Australian audience just 10 hours before two planes struck the World Trade Center. But in The Longest War, a new documentary from director Greg Barker (Manhunt) and executive producer Alex Gansa (Homeland), former CIA agents reveal that they had another opportunity to take out Osama bin Laden with little collateral damage. Look at the view counts. YouTumor is shadow banning the video "The CIA had a so-called ’lethal finding’ [bill] that had been signed by President Clinton that said that we could engage in ’lethal activity’ against bin Laden, but the purpose of our attack against bin Laden couldn’t be to kill him," Grenier explains in the film. "We were being asked to remove this threat to the United States essentially with one hand tied behind our backs." According to director Greg Barker, "It’s hard to believe now, but back in the late ’90s, most of the Washington national security establishment;including President Clinton, the State Department, the Department of Defense; simply did not view Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda as a serious threat. The handful of U.S. officials who saw the looming threat clearly;and there were some, mostly mid-level officers at the CIA's bin Laden unit and the counter-terrorism branch at the FBI tried in vain to raise alarm bells at the highest levels, but were often ignored and even ridiculed." |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #2 People forget that Sudan offered Bin Laden on a silver platter in 1995. But the offer was refused (by Rice and Clinton). |
| Posted by: b 2020-04-22 08:33 |
| #1 The Longest War. Not Even Close to being the longest. Say (for the sake of argument) it is. What does that have to do with it? Is this a war that has to be fought? That is the question. |
| Posted by: Sonny Black 2020-04-22 07:55 |