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Former President Bill Clinton shook his left index finger at Chris Wallace during an interview on Fox News Sunday, denying charges he and his administration did too little to catch Osama bin Laden and ward off the 9-11 terror attacks. Leaning forward and appearing angry, Clinton said, "... at least I tried. That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They (the Bush administration) had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed."
Clinton added that he authorized the CIA "to get groups together to try to kill (bin Laden)." He said he had drawn up plans to go into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and launch an attack against bin Laden after the Oct. 12, 2000 attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni part of Aden. Clinton suggested the plan was thwarted because Uzbekistan would not grant basing rights and only did so after 9-11.See the full content of this document
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More Clinton Finger-Wagging
Clinton apparently is coming out about this now because of the recently aired ABC film The Path to 9-11, which portrayed him and his top aides as indecisive at best, an...
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