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Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA's Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, states that secret CIA prisons on foreign soil were initiated under Bill Clinton -- not, as the Washington Post had claimed, under GWB.
Ex-CIA Big: Bill Clinton Authorized Extralegal Interrogations
The man who ran the Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden desk during the 1990s is accusing President Clinton of giving the CIA carte blanche to circumvent U.S. law and interrogate terrorist suspects in any way the agency saw fit - a directive that led to the establishment of secret CIA prisons on foreign soil.
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture," recalled Michael Scheuer, who headed up the agency's Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, in an interview Wednesday with the German newsmagazine Die Zeit.
Scheuer said Clinton replied: "That's up to you."
According to an Agence France Press summary of the Die Zeit interview, Scheuer explained that the Clinton administration "had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system."
The top Bin Laden hunter recalled that the extralegal directive came after "President Clinton, his national security advisor Sandy Berger and his terrorism advisor Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al-Qaeda."
It's notable that Clinton said, "That's up to you," -- making sure that he could blame anything that was actually done on somebody else.
It's also notable that Clinton found the US legal system "cumbersome" in attempts to fight terrorists. Of course it is. The US legal system is designed to protect the accused as much as possible. For the US government to try that on an organized group that's trying to kill Americans, would greatly increase the danger they present to the American people.
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#2You have used an insult in lieu of any evidence to support your claim. If you removed the insult, there would be nothing to accompany your assertion -- which is often the case with statements from the Left.
Michael Scheuer, who ran the CIA's Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, states that secret CIA prisons on foreign soil were initiated under Bill Clinton -- not, as the Washington Post had claimed, under GWB.
He didn't say any such thing. The NewsMax "report" is written in such a way that those with poor reading comprehension (a group which seems to include the vast majority of Bush supporters) might think he said that. But a close reading makes it clear that he did not.