Sean Hannity still blaming Bill Clinton for 9/11
By: Cahir O'Doherty | Published Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:56 PM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 9:39 PM
Some things never change, even when they really ought to.
On Friday
Sean Hannity used a second-hand account from a former
Bin Laden associate as an excuse to attack the Clinton administration.
Hannity suggested that Clinton's handling of terrorism emboldened
Al Qaeda to step up their game prior to the 9/11 attacks.
The shocking claim comes a week after Hannity cancelled a trip to
Ohio due to his perceived closeness to the Tea Party movement and their decision to charge for tickets to the event.
To level his soft on terror charge at Clinton, Hannity and his guest Oliver North overlooked the spike in chatter in the nine months before the attacks, during which the Bush administration could have adopted a different strategy.
Let's not forget that 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack The
USA' was the title of the document that languished, inexplicably, on
George W. Bush's desk in the month before the attack.
And by the way Sean, what makes you or Oliver North authorities on Al Qaeda anyway? Neither of you have any counter-terrorism expertise or experience. You're drawing some pretty large conclusions from some dubious sources.
But blaming Clinton for 9/11 is an old Hannity ploy. In fact, Clinton said he did not strike back after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000 because he did not have conclusive evidence that Al Qaeda was responsible.
His best advisors agreed, saying that a military action might inflame the Islamic world and actually increase support for the Taliban.
And when the Bush administration came to power just a few months later, Condoleezza Rice reported to the 9/11 Commission that it was decided that 'Tit-for-tat responses were likely to be counterproductive.'
Those are the facts Sean. If you had actually chosen to report them, then your audience would have been able to decide for themselves.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.PhlutiePhan | Aug 18, 2010, 11:48 AM EDT
Let's look at a fact. The order to send a cruise missile to kill Bin Laden at a specific time and place was overruled by President Clinton.
McNamara31 | Jun 26, 2010, 07:02 PM EDT
Hannity- A manipulator and opportunist for the $$$ same as Rush, Beck and Palin
hancock | Jun 15, 2010, 01:06 AM EDT
Hey Dennis do you remeber she was 300 pounds , crazy, and waving a butchers knife?
Monsoonman | Jun 12, 2010, 09:22 PM EDT
Oh Dennis! Mr. Sean Hannity is laying the blame of 911 right on the doorstep of the prevaricator in chief bill(I did not have sex with that woman) clinton....squarely where it belongs. Libs don't like it when the truth is uttered.
DennisQ | May 05, 2010, 05:31 AM EDT
I'm embarrassed by Sean Hannity's Irish name. I don't think I'd give it a second thought if his name were Harold Walter or John Prentice. Hannity's absurd conservatism reminds me of Stephen Sullivan, the cop accused of manslaughter for the shotgun death of arthritic grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs in 1984. He was acquitted by a judge, and the Police Emerald Society made him their Marshal in the St. Patrick's Day parade.