# Clinton Smacks Down Fox News (For JEG)

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**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/clinton-smacks-down-fox-news-for-jeg/17974 "2006-09-25T06:57:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/clinton-smacks-down-fox-news-for-jeg/17974/87 "2006-09-28T13:27:35Z")

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I got the report, read the section you suggested, at least from the point where Clinton signed this order:

> In mid-December,President Clinton signed a Memorandum  
> of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign  
> proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S.  
> custody.The authority was to capture, not kill, though lethal force might be  
> used if necessary.

Up to and included the first Predator flight, including the one mentioned in the article I posted.

> On September 7,the Predator flew for the first time over Afghanistan.When  
> FROM THREAT TO THREAT 189  
> Clarke saw video taken during the trial flight, he described the imagery to  
> Berger as “truly astonishing,” and he argued immediately for more flights seeking  
> to find Bin Ladin and target him for cruise missile or air attack.Even if Bin  
> Ladin were not found, Clarke said, Predator missions might identify additional  
> worthwhile targets, such as other al Qaeda leaders or stocks of chemical or biological  
> weapons.117  
> Clarke was not alone in his enthusiasm. He had backing from Cofer Black  
> and Charles Allen at the CIA.Ten out of 15 trial missions of the Predator over  
> Afghanistan were rated successful. On the first flight, a Predator saw a security  
> detail around a tall man in a white robe at Bin Ladin’s Tarnak Farms compound  
> outside Kandahar. After a second sighting of the “man in white” at the compound  
> on September 28, intelligence community analysts determined that he  
> was probably Bin Ladin.

No where between mid December 1999 and that predator flight does Clinton ammend his capture order to be a kill or capture order. So as I’ve been stating, the Fox journalist should have said SOMETHING when Clinton said he did everything he could to kill him.

When I have time I’ll read the rest, but I’ve read the section that deals with, and validates, the article I posted.

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