Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Top Bush Counterterrorism Official: ABC’s Path to 9/11 Is "sheer fantasy"’

A second national security expert has gone on the record blasting ABC's upcoming 9/11 docudrama. Yesterday Richard Clarke, testified that ABC had manufactured from thin air a scene in which Sandy Berger refuses to give the order to the CIA to take out bin Laden. Now, Roger Cressey — a top counterterrorism official to Bush II and Clinton — says:
...it’s amazing, based on what I’ve seen so far is how much they’ve gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructing Ahmed Rassam to carry out the millenium attacks. Then they got the big stuff wrong, this fantasy about how we had a CIA officer and the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Massoud looking at Bin Laden and they breathlessly call the White House to say we need to take him out and the hite House said no. I mean it’s sheer fantasy
Yet, this pack of lies is getting six hours of prime-time, commercial free? Please tell me the last time that happened.

Cresey continues:
If you read the 9/11 Commission report, it makes it very clear. In most of those cases, George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, said because there was single source intelligence it was his recommendation to the President not to take the shot. There was never a case where we had a clear shot at Bin Laden and the decision to take it wasn’t made.
The thing that galls me most about the "Clinton failed to take out Bin Laden" fabrication is that it was Rethuglicans who vocally hampered Clinton's efforts to take steps against Bin Laden. They did this by handcuffing the White House with the Starr vendetta, and their constant cries of "wag the dog" politics from the likes of Dick "Haliburton" Cheney. Furthermore, we'd have bin Ladin's head on a stick if Bush hadn't botched the assault on Tora Bora by sending in the disloyal Afghani mercinaries when American Marines were available instead.

But instead, the Malevolent Mouse broadcasts revisionist garbage, and the same knuckle-draggers who believe -to this day- that Saddam sponsored or otherwise supported the attacks of 9/11 are going to lap it up with a spoon.

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