Sept. 11 Panel Addresses Lewinsky Scandal

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Sept-11-Lewinsky.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission's final report says there's no evidence suggesting President Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes on Osama bin Laden targets to distract attention from his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

But the report says the affair, coupled with other issues, likely affected later discussions about using force against the terrorist leader.

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The commission's final report treads lightly on Clinton's affair with the one-time White House intern, which led to his impeachment and later acquittal by the Senate. Although only tiny sections of the report refer to the affair, the commissioners spent a lot of time discussing how and whether to discuss it in the report, deciding, in the end, that it was important to do so.

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While the commission said it found no reason to doubt the motivation of Clinton and his advisers, their report stated: ``The failure of the strikes, the 'wag the dog' slur, the intense partisanship of the period and the nature of the al Shifa evidence likely had a cumulative effect on future decisions about the use of force against bin Laden. Berger told us that he did not feel any sense of constraint.''



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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Hatred of Clinton

by the Rethugs tied his hands and distracted him with the bogus impeachment. I really think bin Laden would have been captured if Bill had been allowed to govern.

[JuniperLea]

2. apparently

it wasn't in the repugs' best interst to allow clinton to do that.

[phillybri]

3. I hope it was worth it to the Repubs...

Fucking idiots...:grr:

[lovedems]

4. If you have seen the documentary, "Black Hawk Down" you will

notice at the end during a commentary by Mark Bowden and others familiar with that moment in History that Clinton wouldn't have been able to fight the insurgents even if he wanted to BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED CONGRESS NEVER WOULD HAVE ALLOWED IT. Now, the republicans use that against him. He left Somalia in shame and it is all his fault. People seem to forget (and the republicans seem to forget) it was a republican controlled congress and their actions should be held accountable as well.

It is just amazing to me that Clinton takes the blame for things that were clearly the responsibility of the republican controlled congress. They screwed us then and they are screwing us now.

[blm]

5. The GOP Monica hysterics was out and out TREASON.

They knew they were being an unnecessary distraction and creating a circuslike atmosphere but they LOVE money and their own power more than this country.

They are traitors.

[Mr_Spock]

7. Yes, Repugs are TRAITORS and they should ALL be run out of town

on a rail. They hold a lot of the responsibilty for allowing us to be attacked on 9/11 and they know it. :mad:

[blm]

10. ESPECIALLY those Rethugs on the Intelligence Committee. They KNEW

the truth to what Clinton was doing and they chose to go along with the program to bring Clinton down instead of Bin Laden.

[snippy]

11. Excellent point. And true for both houses. n/t

[blm]

16. We need the Rethug list from the 1998 Intel Committee.

This should be a HUGE story.

[Old and In the Way]

14. No investigation into anything Clinton was too small for the

Republicans to start......amazing how nothing motivates them today to investigate Bush.

Remember, lying about consensual sex is bad and is an impeachable offense, but lying about War that kills 10s of thousands of people is no reason to question the pResident.

Republicans have put their interests in front of this country's since 92, they have enabled this fraudulent administration to declare a Contract on America and they are too deeply complicit or too cowardly to stop it.

[blm]

18. Could those investigations been purposeful to KEEP Bin Laden safe

for the BFEE who was no doubt orchestrating ALOT of the players involved.....Like Ted Olsen and his ilk, the congressional wingnuts and the rightwing journalists.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Oh please...I was wondering whe Clinton's penis was going to be

brought into it. :eyes:

[Zomby Woof]

15. so to speak

:o

(YOu are very Freudian today... that was a nice slip!) :hi:

[zwielicht]

8. reading between the lines, this could...

no, wait, i think they are ignorant enough not to even think of what this would mean if they applied the same measures to *

[leesa]

9. Of course this is important...never mind the rampant treason occuring

in front of our eyes.

[lovedems]

12. One quick question. I saw a news clip that Shelby (r-alabama) is being

investigated. Apparently on September 10, 2001 2 congressional sources said, "The match begins tomorrow" and "tomorrow is zero day." Somebody knew this was going to happen! They had information that it was going to happen on 9-11!

That is just freaking creepy! What did they know? Talk about LIHOP! When I saw that, it sent chills down my spine. WTF is going on? Is this addressed in the 911 report?

[Paradise]

13. Anyone out there have any civil suits they can bring against * ?

The "Supremes" said it was okay. :shrug:

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. I want to know why

the friggin' Democrats on the 911 Committee let the friggin' republicans get away with this BULLSHIT!!!!!!! The whole report is a whitewash of what happened. The WH is THRILLED to death about the report. And the damn Democrats on the committee went along with it? WHY? WHY? WHY? So they could appear to me bipartisan? FUCK bipartisanship!

There wouldn't have been any "Wag The Dog" accusations IN THE FIRST PLACE had the fucking republicans not investigated the Clinton Administration for 8 FUCKING years!!!! G-d I hate our corrupt government!

[Minstrel Boy]

19. Because the Democrats were chosen by the White House.

With the exception of Max Cleland - and he's long gone - all the appointments have a compromised history, Democrat or Republican. Lee Hamilton has covered-up the Bush family high crimes for years (Iran Contra and October Surprise, for instance), and the (D) after his name means shit.

[ck4829]

20. Blame the 'vast right conspiracy'

They persecuted Clinton and now they're profitting from 9/11. 2 wars, the Patriot Act, etc., etc.