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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (10437)3/28/2004 6:58:51 PM
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"A report compiled by the commission's staff found that senior officials in the Clinton White House said they had made it clear the CIA had a licence to kill the Saudi fugitive and not just capture him.
But the report said: "If the policy makers believed their intent was clear, every CIA official interviewed on this topic by the commission, from (the CIA director, George Tenet) to the official who actually briefed the agents in the field, told us they had heard a different message.
"What the United States would let the military do is quite different, Tenet said, from the rules that govern covert action in the field."
The distinction may have made a crucial difference to the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader, who later ordered the September 11 attacks.
"CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to capture bin Laden, except in the defined contingency. They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation," the report said.
It quoted a former chief of the Osama bin Laden unit as saying: "We always talked about how much easier it would have been to kill him."

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