What can you say about people who deny even when the evidence is in front of them. It just astounds me how the left can say anything they want even when the truth contradicts them
Hillary in Shock Denial: Says Bill Wasn't Offered Bin Laden
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday morning that reports claiming her husband was offered a deal to extradite Osama bin Laden to the United States were false, complaining to a network newsman who asked about the allegation, "I don't think that a lot of what is being said and written about now actually is accurate."
Mrs. Clinton's bombshell denial comes despite her husband's recorded confession that he indeed did decline a deal with the government of Sudan to bring bin Laden to the U.S., comments first reported by NewsMax.com in August.
Mrs. Clinton's bizarre claim that the bin Laden extradition deal never happened came during the following exchange with NBC "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert:
RUSSERT: There are at least three instances - Sudan, Saudi Arabia are two - where they offered to help bring Osama bin Laden to justice. It never happened. The London Times says President Clinton now says it was one of the biggest mistakes of his presidency, not entering into one of those arrangements.
Why didn't the president spend more time on terrorism and Osama bin Laden?
SEN. CLINTON: Oh, Tim, I think the record is clear that he spent an enormous amount of time and, you know, I don't think that a lot of what is being said and written about now actually is accurate. There's quite an extensive record of the Clinton administration's efforts against terrorism. (End of Excerpt)
Mrs. Clinton's claim that reports of the bin Laden deal were wrong flies in the face of her husband's own words during a Feb. 15, 2002, address to New York's Long Island Association, which was recorded by NewsMax.
"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan," the ex-president told the group's annual luncheon.
"And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again.
"They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan." (End of excerpt)
Russert did not confront Mrs. Clinton with her husband's recorded comments, even though NewsMax has made the audio available on the Internet since its first report on the tape Aug. 11.
Ironically, Russert's Washington bureau expressed an interest in covering the recording at the time, but producers for NBC's "Nightly News" in New York decided to pull the segment because, they said, there was other breaking news.
NBC News never called to reschedule the segment. |
