And so we didn't get intel about bin Laden from the Brits in 1998.

Ministers insisted that British secret agents would only be allowed to pass intelligence to the CIA to help it capture Osama bin Laden if the agency promised he would not be tortured, it has emerged.

MI6 believed it was close to finding the al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan in 1998, and again the next year. The plan was for MI6 to hand the CIA vital information about Bin Laden. Ministers including Robin Cook, the then foreign secretary, gave their approval on condition that the CIA gave assurances he would be treated humanely. The plot is revealed in a 75-page report by parliament's intelligence and security committee on rendition, the practice of flying detainees to places where they may be tortured.

You see, the practice of rendition -- much condemned by terrorist-sympathizing liberals today -- was begun by one William Jefferson Clinton during his term as President. The British wanted assurances that the terrorist mastermind would not be subject to that practice before they would help the US capture him.

It is therefore fair to say (using the rhetoric of the deranged left-wingers who place the comfort of terrorists above the lives of innocents) that Bill Clinton's policy favoring torture was a proximate cause of 9/11.

I'm wonder what the position of the leading Democrat presidential candidate is on this revelation?

H/T Don Surber, Say Anything

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