The Road to 9/11. The Internet Has a Long Memory. Historical Revisionism Will Be Harder In the Future.

The Democrats are spinning like they have not done since Clinton spilled his “essence” on Monica and Maddy Albright went before the cameras to vouch for Bill’s purity.

Thanks to the Internet’s institutional memory, lying has been made a little harder. Of course Clinton’s herd is all over the airwaves, along with Bill himself saying “we” haven’t seen “The Path to 9/11.” I guess it depends on the meaning of “we.”

The scene in the movie that shows Sandy Burglar hanging up on a CIA agent when Bin Laden is surrounded and they are prepared to kill or capture him is a fictionalized version of reality; a composite of several attempts to take Bin laden that were scrubbed by the Clinton Administration.

But the reality is every bit a damning. Click HERE for a link to a video.

Then look at the transcript of a Hardball interview with the top CIA agent following Bin Laden.

Next up: an interview with Former CIA dude Michael Scheuer, whom Osama doesn’t like very much, on Hardball last summer, all emphasis mine:
O‘DONNELL: But many people have made the impression that something in the Bush administration was done wrong. But there‘s evidence that the Clinton administration knew full well that bin Laden had the wherewithal and was planning to attack the United States. Who is to blame and did the president, Clinton, get this information?
SCHEUER: Certainly the president got the information. And most certainly his closest adviser, Sandy Berger and Mr. Clarke—Richard Clarke, had the information from 1996 forward that bin Laden intended to attack the United States. There‘s no question of that. And in terms of which administration had more chances, Mr. Clinton‘s administration had far more chances to kill Osama bin Laden than Mr. Bush has until this day.
O‘DONNELL: That‘s very interesting. I don‘t think that many Americans know that or think that everything that they‘ve heard—you‘ve spent your life tracking Osama bin Laden. From what we know now and what you know, how many missed opportunities were there to prevent the 9/11 attacks?
SCHEUER: Well, we had—the question of whether or not we could have prevented the attacks is one you could debate forever. But we had at least eight to 10 chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in 1998 and 1999. And the government on all occasions decided that the information was not good enough to act. [N.B.; Contrast this statement with the last sentence of the WaPo article above, about not knowing where Osama was—See Dub]
O‘DONNELL: What—who then is to blame? I think the American people want to know, then, who then is to blame for this?
SCHEUER: It can only be the policy-makers and the elected officials.…
O‘DONNELL: So what you‘re saying is that when you ran the bin Laden desk, you knew where bin Laden was. You knew that bin Laden was trying to attack the United States. You knew that bin Laden had the wherewithal and that the policy-makers in the Clinton administration and then the Bush administration did not heed your warnings?
SCHEUER: Not my warnings. I hate to make myself the center of anything, ma‘am. But the intelligence community as a whole had warned the administration repeatedly. And I think there‘s no lack of record of that. It just—the 9/11 Commission failed to find anyone responsible for anything. The CIA can‘t order an attack. Only the National Security Council and the president can order an attack. …
…The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers.
When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden‘s safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn‘t irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

Hmmm.…what a perfect excuse the Party of the Left has given us today to dredge up and dust off—literally, in my case—the cataclysmic folly of a “law-enforcement approach to terrorism”. In fact, what a great excuse to dig through the last Democratic administration’s record of fecklessness, fumbling, and failure against Islamic terrorism.

Rove, you magnificent bastard, it worked!

The Clinton administration at work: They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn‘t irritate his beard. Repeat that to yourself. Then cry for the thousands that have died for this fool and his reptilian acolytes.