Clark: Bin Laden Not My Problem
Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark has repeatedly
blamed President Bush for not protecting America from the 9/11 attacks,
regularly invoking Harry Truman's Oval Office motto, "The buck stops here."
But when it comes to intelligence gathered during the Clinton administration
on the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, the then-Supreme Commander of NATO said
Sunday that it just wasn't his job to intervene.
Clark passed the buck in bin Laden during the following exchange with NBC
"Meet the Press" host Tim Russert:
RUSSERT: When you were Supreme NATO Commander were you aware of Osama bin
Laden [and] al Qaeda? And did you warn anyone about the threat?
CLARK: The information [we had on bin Laden] was coming out of the Central
Command area. What my responsibility was, was to take the measures in my area.
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In the next breath Clark admitted that what he and other Clinton generals did
about bin Laden pretty much amounted to all talk and no action.
"In fact, we did have threats by Osama bin Laden," he told Russert. "We had
continuing discussions on this at our commanders' conferences with the Secretary
of Defense."
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