Re: Clinton and Bin Laden ... where does this stuff come from? Help!!!!

[Pepperbelly]

It took a vigorous google but I was wondering how this Regenery/WSJ anus came up with this stuff and found that it originated from a Vanity Fair article. Eventually, I found the best research on it done by CNN although I am certain that others here may have found other sources as well.

We should see what sort of bibliography we can come up with on this. For your perusal, check out these snippets:

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The top Clinton administration official in charge of African affairs, former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice, told CNN Sunday the allegations were "erroneous and irresponsible."


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In an interview on "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Rice said Clinton administration officials up to the Cabinet level met on "countless occasions" with officials of the Sudanese government to discuss terrorism.

"Never, during those many, many meetings, was there ever an offer of such documents, were those documents ever provided," Rice said.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/02/ret.terror.sudan/

[robbedvoter]

1. Here's one debunking source:

. "Sudan's Offer to Arrest Militant Fell Through After Saudis Said No"




The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct
from its president to the
Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of
1996 to arrest Osama bin
Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials
and former officials in all
three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept
the offer in secret contacts
that stretched from a meeting at a Rosslyn hotel on March 3,
1996, to a fax that
closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later. Unable to
persuade the Saudis to accept
bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts
at the time, the Clinton
administration finally gave up on the capture.


http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2002/national-reporting/works/100301a.html
I also like to use this, because it comes from Clinton:

http://www.geocities.com/davidletterman82/BillClinton2002Interview.html

Excerpt:

There were lots and lots of terrorists attempts that
most Americans don’t know
about that were thwarted. An attempt to blow the
Holland Tunnel, an attempt to
blow up the Lincoln Tunnel, an attempt on the life of
the Pope, an attempt to
blow up the L.A.X airport. Two attempts over the
Millennium weekend to plant
bombs in cites in the Northeast and the Northwest of
the United States, and lot
of people who did terrorist acts, the first World
Trade Centre bombing, Pam Am
103, the CIA terrorist murders, were actually captured
and brought to justice.


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