Albright says Clinton lied - what a surprise...

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Look at these people trying to cleanse their filthy legacy.



Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:46 a.m. EDT
Madeliene Albright: Bill Clinton 'Misstated' Bin Laden Offer


Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright insisted Tuesday that Sudan never offered to round up Osama bin Laden and extradite him to the U.S. - saying President Clinton's claim to the contrary was "a misstatement." [YOU MEAN LIKE SCOOTER LIBBY?]

Asked about Clinton's 2002 admission that six years earlier he had turned down Sudan's offer to extradite bin Laden because "he had commited no crime against America," Albright told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes": "He was not [offered]. He was not."

"If you look at the people who were saying that, there were many people who were lobbying for Sudan," she claimed.

But in a Feb. 2002 speech to a New York business group, Mr. Clinton detailed the episode, explaining: "We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."

Clinton recalled that he "pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

Asked why her old boss would make such a startling confession if it wasn't true, a flustered Albright told Sean Hannity: "Well, because there was movement. But believe me, if we had been offered Osama bin Laden then that offer would have been taken up."

The former top diplomat insisted that Clinton simply got it wrong, explaining: "What's been very hard is kind of a misstatement of a lot of facts on [the Sudanese offer]. Look - we worked very hard to try to deal with the terrorist issue. It was very different before 9/11."

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.
 
Albright says Clinton lied - what a surprise...

Errr - she didnt say that, she said he misstated. 'Lied' implies dishonest intent. Please dont talk to me about the media spinning things when you do the same thing.
 
This is one of those rare instances where I don't know who I trust less.
Clinton or Albright.

The fact Clinton LIED- yes, Lied. According to this article the statement appears to have been knowingly untrue and intended to deceive, is believable. And this kind of a revisionist lie is consistant with other lies he's spoken before.

But it's also believable that the Secretary of State is rewriting the histoy, engaged in a lie, in order to improve her place in history and cover up some more of her incompitant role as Sec. of State.

So, regardless, someone in the Clinton administration is lying again. No surprise there though.
 
Joeychgo said:
Errr - she didnt say that, she said he misstated. 'Lied' implies dishonest intent. Please dont talk to me about the media spinning things when you do the same thing.

Errr - you really should do research before you put your foot in your mouth.

misstate

verb

To give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly: belie, color, distort, falsify, load, misrepresent, pervert, twist, warp, wrench, wrest. Idioms: give a false coloring to. See true/false.


http://www.answers.com/topic/misstate

lie
n.
A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.

v., lied, ly·ing (lī'ĭng), lies.

v.intr.
To present false information with the intention of deceiving.
To convey a false image or impression: Appearances often lie.


http://www.answers.com/lie
 

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