Taking Issue With "The Billiam"

granted, I've not researched this very carefully, but i'm going to comment anyway, of course. michael scheuer, ex-osama bin laden specialist at the cia for several years, has long said that we had the opportunity to kill bin laden when he was in sudan (under clinton, pre-9/11), but that the administration declined. for this, he calls them "moral cowards." scheuer is mild-mannered and very objective in the rest of his opinions--i've seen him in several interviews now--so his condemnation of this decision is almost startling.

now, we see various members of the former clinton administration protesting vehemently about the portrayal of events surrounding 9/11 in an upcoming ABC-produced documentary, that is rumored to be partly fictionalized. i read that samuel berger, or some such individual, was very upset at claims he or someone else denied the chance to kill bin laden.

this would make sense, of course, given the events that took place after the clinton administration involving bin laden. clinton is a man who obviously will be very concerned with his legacy, and taking steps to make it look as if he did everything possible to defeat bin laden is part of re-writing history, if what michael scheuer says is true, and i think it is. he has no reason to lie.