It's Friday before the Columbus Day weekend, so what better time than to release more required documents from the Clinton Library?! A lot of stuff, but here are some snippets from the section on "
African Embassy Bombings":
later in the same doc..
Notice what the White House was crossing out in this talking point outline--any mention of AQ and the likelihood they would attack again. Their first draft, just like the first guess on Benghazi, seemed correct. Then politics appears to have taken over.
The WaPo
took interest in an exchange of a Clinton staffer dissing Jimmy Carter for penning an negative op-ed on the retaliatory bombing of the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan in 1998, thought by the administration to have been a plant producing VX nerve gas for bin Laden (with help from Iraqi scientists). But check out this verbiage...
Ah, the 'full information'. At some point during the late 90s everyone pretty much agreed the
al-Shifa bombing was a big mistake, ie, "Clinton bombed an aspirin factory and killed the night watchman based on false information" to 'wag the dog'. Everybody, that is, but Sandy Berger and Dan Benjamin, who had recommended it and who've never come off their decision.
And from the looks of this memo there were others in the administration who appeared to know more than was being publicly stated, to the point that if Jimmy Carter knew everything he wouldn't have written the op-ed. So, what was that information? And why has the mainstream media never tried to pry it out of these guys?
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