Clinton Autopsy Redux

Michael Scheuer is hardly a right-wing hitman. Indeed, his book on the CIA was a sort of hit against the Bush Administration. But his statement on this morning's unwatched CBS TV show corroborates what another CIA Operations Chief, Mr. Berntsen, said on another cable show last week. Berntsen said that Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke vetoed several times over a period of several days killing Osama bin Laden during the Clinton years. This is not to be confused with his later exploits in Tora Bora, where he just missed ObL for reasons the Bush Administration might be liable for. But Berntsen is having trouble getting the CIA to allow publication of his first-hand accounts of how both administrations and his superiors at the Agency effed up. Now I believe it was on CNN that I saw this, and Anderson Cooper, unlike the girlie-man on CBS today, did not try to cover it up, but said something like "several days?" The weird empty suit on CBS tried to shift the conversation back to Bush-bashing territory.

It's clear to everyone with a scintilla of honesty and dispassionate investigative skills, that Clinton and his crew were chronically unable to unlawyer themselves enough ever to make a decision about anything. A friend working for Sandy Berger, indeed the chief for legal affairs, told me that Berger was a purely political person with little interest and less skill in foreign affairs. His job was to keep Clinton out of trouble. That meant avoiding hard decisions like what to do with Bin Laden when the all-important courts might object, or the Repubs might object.

Actually, Clinton, par for the course, was laying down lie after lie in his little "dialogue/rant" with the hapless Chris Wallace, who didn't seem to have done his homework well enough to refute the cascade of lying BS that spewed from the former First Liar's mouth. Actually, the record shows most Republicans supported his attacks on OBL and most Repubs refuted the Wag the Dog analogies. But the record means nothing to a lying sack of shit like Billy Jeff. And BJ was BSing in other ways, the wagging finger always a tell with this self-absorbed mountebank.

Berntsen and Scheuer agree that the Clinton team had ObL in its crosshairs, but characteristically failed to order the trigger pulled, perhaps one of the reasons Sandy Berger walked out of the National Archives with his clothes stuffed with the original "eyes-only" docs with his and other principals' handwritten remarks concerning the lapses that led to 9/11.

And you noticed, I'm sure, the strenuous efforts the MSM made to get to the bottom of the felonies that Sandy Berger committed! NOT!

But the last laugh, as usual, is on the taxpayer because we'll probably never know.

You see, those docs Berger stole [and perhaps never returned---we won't know that either] are "CLASSIFIED!"