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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (3501)	8/31/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 13994

<< How could a mistake of this proportion be made?>> Maybe someone needed to look presidential in a hurry. <<I would hope for some type of inquiry, maybe the UN? >> Nah, the Whitehouse has told the UN no need to investigate, it was enough for them. And we wonder why the term "Ugly American"!!!

To: Bill who wrote (3501)	8/31/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Respond to of 13994

Perhaps he will be the first sitting President to have the distinction of including "war criminal" to the litany of charges that appear to be accruing to his legacy.

To: Bill who wrote (3501)	9/1/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

LOOKS LIKE U.S. GOOFED ON BOMBING...SEE BELOW Sudan Attack Claims Faulty, U.S. Admits By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer ASHINGTON--With some close allies voicing deepening doubts, U.S. officials acknowledged Monday that they erred in their original explanation of how they picked a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan to be destroyed by cruise missiles on Aug. 20. Officials said they were unaware when Tomahawk missiles were fired at the Shifa Pharmaceutical plant in the Sudanese capital that the facility produced human and veterinary medicines for the impoverished nation. And they conceded that Clinton administration officials initially overstated evidence that suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden held a financial stake in the facility. Even so, officials insisted that the complex in northern Khartoum was a legitimate target. And they stood behind their assertions that a single soil sample secretly collected from just outside the facility was sufficient proof that the factory was used to manufacture the deadly nerve gas VX. "In retrospect, with the benefit of hindsight, it was the right target," said a U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Since the attack, critics both in the United States and abroad have challenged the administration's rationale and explanations for the strike, which was aimed at punishing Bin Laden for the Aug. 7 bombings outside the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania he allegedly coordinated--and at heading off expected further such assaults.