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� Shame on Clinton — again
� � � � � Good news, sort of, for Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright.
Having persisted in telling tales at cross-purposes to explain why
the Clinton administration did nothing about Osama bin Laden and the
al Qaeda network for all those Clinton years, these two erstwhile
office-holders may now read from the same page — literally — and
discover in the January issue of Vanity Fair what went wrong on
their watch.
� � � � � In "The Osama Files" by David Rose, the former
president and former secretary of state get a second chance to
see the letters and secret memoranda that they, along with their
top aides, once ignored or failed to act upon. The rest of us,
meanwhile, get a look at an eye-popping paper trail that
documents futile efforts by Sudan to alert the United States to
the workings, the identities and the movements of the al Qaeda
network, including, of course, bin Laden.
� � � � � Mr. Clinton and
Mrs. Albright may not only reconsider the entreaties of Sudan's
President Omar al-Bashir to then-President Clinton (the Sudanese
leader asked to open his country to the CIA and the FBI so the
United States could investigate for itself whether Sudan trained
or sheltered terrorists), but also the many invitations Sudan
made to share terrorism information with U.S. intelligence
agencies. In political retirement, they may reflect on whether
it was such a brilliant idea, for example, for the State
Department to have nixed FBI interest in meeting with Sudanese
intelligence. As former Bush White House official and lobbyist Janet
McElligott said when urging the government to examine Sudan's
dossiers, "You do realize bin Laden lived there [Sudan] and they
have files on his main people?" � � � � � Vanity Fair reports that
Sudan's efforts to open its books on bin Laden began in February
1996, well in advance of the terrorist attacks that would make
the Saudi-born terrorist infamous. That means that for more than
four years the Clinton administration refused to consider
intelligence that might have prevented the bombing of the Khobar
Towers (June 1996), the destruction of the American embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania (August 1998), the attack on the USS Cole
(October 2000) and, of course, September 11. Why was such
potentially vital information not only ignored but never even
evaluated? � � � � � "The simple answer is that the Clinton
administration had accused Sudan of sponsoring terrorism, and
refused to believe that anything it did to prove its bona fides
could be genuine," the magazine reports. No doubt. But there is
probably more to this scandalous failure than the
"politicization" of intelligence. � � � � � Just ask a simple
question. What mattered more to Clintonites in June 1996: the
news on June 25 that a truck bomb had exploded at Khobar Towers
in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, or the Supreme Court decision on June
24 to hear Jones vs. Clinton after the 1996 re-election
campaign? Or compare another strange confluence of events. What more
likely preoccupied Mr. Clinton and his advisers in August 1998: the
embassy bombings in Africa on Aug. 7, or Mr. Clinton's upcoming
appearance before a grand jury in connection with the Lewinsky
matter on Aug. 17? � � � � � Given the permanent reconfiguration of
the Clinton White House into a scandal-busting spin machine, the
answers to such questions are obvious and distasteful. They may
make it easier to explain, for example, why Sudan's offer to
extradite two suspected bombers and al Qaeda members, made in
the days between the embassy bombings and Mr. Clinton's grand
jury appearance, was met with silence — except, of course, for
the sound of American bombs falling on a Khartoum medicine
factory. They don't, however, make it any more conscionable.
� � � � � The fact is, the scandal-riddled Clinton administration simply
and disastrously failed to function — and that, surely, is the
biggest scandal of them all. Source:
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20011208-17121302.htm �
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