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To: American Spirit who wrote (4539)	3/3/2004 8:43:31 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

You dolt. Would you expect anyone in the Clinton administration to fess up to that? I've concluded that you're a paid bullsh*t machine.

To: American Spirit who wrote (4539)	3/3/2004 9:54:06 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"The FBI did not believe we had enough evidence to indict bin Laden at that time, and therefore opposed bringing him to the United States," said Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, who was deputy national security adviser then. That's Sandy Berger quoted in the Washington Post. Continuing: Three Clinton officials said they hoped -- one described it as "a fantasy" -- that Saudi King Fahd would accept bin Laden and order his swift beheading, as he had done for four conspirators after a June 1995 bombing in Riyadh. But Berger and Steven Simon, then director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council (NSC) staff, said the White House considered it valuable in itself to force bin Laden out of Sudan, thus tearing him away from his extensive network of businesses, investments and training camps. "I really cared about one thing, and that was getting him out of Sudan," Simon said. "One can understand why the Saudis didn't want him -- he was a hot potato -- and, frankly, I would have been shocked at the time if the Saudis took him. My calculation was, 'It's going to take him a while to reconstitute, and that screws him up and buys time.' " library.cornell.edu Here's another Sandy Berger quote showing the Clinton administration didn't want to take custody of OBL: when challenged as to why the Clinton Administration passed up on the offer of bin Laden's extradition, Samuel Berger stated: "In the United States, we have this thing called the Constitution, so to bring him here is to bring him into the justice system. I don't think that was our first choice." (8) sudan.net This shows the impotence of trying to handle international terrorism as a law enforcement problem as the Clinton administration did and Kerry proposes to do.