Richard Clarke: Each time it would get close, Tenet would pull the plug

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/missed_opportun.html

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Each time it would get close, CIA director Tenet would pull the plug, according to Clarke.

"President Clinton authorized two U.S. cruise missile attack submarines to sit off the Pakistani coast and to sit there for months on end waiting for word that we might have sighted bin Laden," Clarke explained.

And on three occasions, CIA sources, not CIA personnel, but people, Afghans, who were working for CIA, said they thought they knew where bin Laden was. And on all three occasions, those cruise missiles in the submarines were activated and began to spin up and get ready to launch. And on all three occasions, the director of the CIA, George Tenet, said he could not recommend the attack because the information from his one source wasn't good enough.

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Efforts by Richard Clarke to get the U.S. military to bomb the growing al Qaeda training camps were rejected, with generals deriding them as jungle-gym camps, not worth wasting a million dollar missile.

[wakeme2008]

1. Also if you read Jawbreaker

the author was close to getting bin Laden before 9-11 but the "11th floor" leaders of the CIA pulled the plug and recalled him home.

[Supersedeas]

9. the Corp Media are accomplices in so much disinformation.

[JuniperLea]

2. "not worth wasting a million dollar missile"

Yet somehow W's wild goose chase has been worth billions of dollars and thousands of lives.


Disgusting.

[woodsprite]

3. Yeah, but they weren't getting a big "cut" then from the single missle. nt

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Makes sense if Osama was and is still a CIA asset

:tinfoilhat:

[pansypoo53219]

5. but its still all

clinton's fault because of monica.

i hate republikkkans.

[Skidmore]

6. Somehow that lends credence to the idea that

OBL is a CIA creation and operative. It makes MIHOP believable.

[Selatius]

7. But it was worth wasting 300,000,000,000 on Iraqi civilians

America will be made to pay for this, rightfully or wrongfully, for this mistake.

[LSK]

8. this is backed up by the 9/11 Commission Report

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2104220&mesg_id=2104220