"Methinks She Doeth Protest Too Much."

Clinton Administration Officials Assail ABC's 'The Path to 9/11'

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 7, 2006; Page A09

Top officials of the Clinton administration have launched a preemptive strike against an ABC-TV "docudrama," slated to air Sunday and Monday, that they say includes made-up scenes depicting them as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.

Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright called one scene involving her "false and defamatory." Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger said the film "flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions." And former White House aide Bruce R. Lindsey, who now heads the William J. Clinton Foundation, said: "It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known."

ABC's entertainment division said the six-hour movie, "The Path to 9/11," will say in a disclaimer that it is a "dramatization . . . not a documentary" and contains "fictionalized scenes." But the disclaimer also says the movie is based on the Sept. 11 commission's report, although that report contradicts several key scenes.

Berger said in an interview that ABC is "certainly trying to create the impression that this is realistic, but it's a fabrication."

Poor Bill, he was caught with his pants down during his administration, and now his entire folderol administration is about to be unzipped on prime time television.

He can protest all he wants, but we do know certain facts. President Clinton was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter once in February of 1996 when the Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden, with his entourage including Ayman Zawahiri, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (who is now serving a life sentence for his involvement in the embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya), Wadih El-Hage and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saif Adel (both of whom are also suspected in the embassy bombings), and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates; the offer was ignored by the Clinton administration. The data that the Sudanese government had accrued on bin Laden's network was ignored when offered 4 (yes that's FOUR) times. Mosoor Ijaz in an article posted in the LA Times December 5, 2001, Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize said the following:

"Important data on each had been compiled by the Sudanese.

But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton[emphasis added]; then again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI."

Finally, a second opportunity to apprehend Bin Laden was squandered by the Clinton administration when in July 2000--three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen a proposal was brought to White House that would have landed Bin Laden in our hands. Again Mr. Ijaz states:

"The offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best.

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history."

So perhaps the specifics of the incidents have been doctored for dramatic purposes, but the fact remains that Bill "Bubba One" Clinton, Sandy "Burglar" Berger and Madeleine "Halfbright" Fulbright, either through negligence or incompetence failed to move when information and a known enemy, both vital to our national security interests, were made available to them by some of their own operatives. These are facts, documented by Monsoor Ijaz who was no Conservative Republican political hack, but a strong supporter of President Clinton. In fact, because of his growing contributions to the Democratic Party and his connections in the Middle East, he was singled out in 1994 by the Democratic National Committee which had by then recognised that he was more than just a source of funds.

Ever the liar, Clinton's protest fail to have the ring of truth.

Full Story: Clintonian Incompetence More Than Just A Dramatic Interpretation

What do you think?

To leave your opinion click on the word "COMMENT(S)" below