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[classicman]

Originally Posted by tw

Clinton regarded bin Laden as the number one threat to America which is why he even created Alec Station - a group assigned only to get bin Laden.

Then why didn't he take him out when Bin Laden was handed to him on a silver platter? Sounds like revisionist history to me.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by classicman

Then why didn't he take him out when Bin Laden was handed to him on a silver platter? Sounds like revisionist history to me.

Because Bin Ladin was never handed to him on a silver platter. That business has been debunked more times than I care to mention, and people STILL trot it out.

Clinton was a schmoe. Very few people will argue against that. But the "silver platter" business isn't true. It's just a stale Rovian talking point...effective vs Gore back in 2000, but a lie nonetheless.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by TGRR

Because Bin Ladin was never handed to him on a silver platter. That business has been debunked more times than I care to mention, and people STILL trot it out.

From factcheck -

Erwa claims that he offered to hand bin Laden over to the United States. Key American players – President Bill Clinton, then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and Director of Counterterrorism Richard Clarke among them – have testified there were no "credible offers" to hand over bin Laden. The 9/11 Commission found "no credible evidence" that Erwa had ever made such an offer. On the other hand, Lawrence Wright, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Looming Tower," flatly states that Sudan did make such an offer. Wright bases his judgment on an interview with Erwa and notes that those who most prominently deny Erwa's claims were not in fact present for the meeting.

Bill & Hillary's "Position"

U.S. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts To Capture Bin Laden or Have Him Killed
Sudan's Offer to Arrest Militant Fell Through After Saudis Said No

By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 3, 2001; Page A01

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at a Rosslyn hotel on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later. Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts at the time, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.

It would be virtually unheard of to have concrete evidence on a matter like this.

[TGRR]

Odd that the man in question was never a representative of the Sudanese government, and Sudan says they have no fucking clue who he is or what he was talking about.

But some neocon nutcase named Lawrence Wright says otherwise, so all involved people are therefore lying or part of a conspiracy.

Also...Newsmax? Are you taking the piss? Why not just link to Rush Limbaugh and be done with it?

[tw]

Originally Posted by classicman

Then why didn't he take him out when Bin Laden was handed to him on a silver platter?

He repeatedly did using what was available. What secret did you withhold rather than contribute?