Investor Richard Scaife - who paid for published stories criticizing the attacks on bin Laden as attempts to distract the public from the Lewinsky drama.
Newsmax lies
The 911 commision report
The decision not to strike in May 1999 may now seem hard to understand.
In fairness, we note two points: First, in December 1998, the principals' wari-
ness about ordering a strike appears to have been vindicated: Bin Ladin left his
room unexpectedly, and if a strike had been ordered he would not have been hit. Second, the administration, and the CIA in particular, was in the midst of
intense scrutiny and criticism in May 1999 because faulty intelligence had just
led the United States to mistakenly bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
during the NATO war against Serbia. This episode may have made officials
more cautious than might otherwise have been the case.
