Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Former CIA Officer Blames Arab Money and the Clinton Admin for Failure to Kill bin Laden

June 11, 2018 By Richard C. Young

From right to left: US Ambassador to Qatar Joseph Lebaron, Ambassador Ali Al-Hajri, Qatar Ambassador to the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Ambassador Mohammed bin Khater Al-Khater Director of the Department of Protocol in Doha, Qatar February 14, 2010. [State Department Photo / Public Domain]

The former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, has taken to his blog, non-intervention.com, to hammer former CIA Director John Brennan, the Clinton administration, and the two-party elites. Scheuer believes that the promises of contracts with Arab governments to buy American military equipment could have played a role in the Clinton Administration’s decisions about killing Osama bin Laden. Scheuer writes that the Clinton administration had at least ten chances to kill bin Laden, but declined them all. Meanwhile, Clinton and his subordinates lined up $8 billion in weapons sales to the UAE, a government friendly to bin Laden. Scheuer writes (abridged):

I have kept quiet about former-CIA Director John Brennan’s ongoing, near-hysterical tirades against President Trump and the Republicans for two reasons. First, I thought that the critical response was pretty strong…. Second, I had my say in this space when Brennan was nominated to the post of CIA Director.
On 1 June 2018, however, I read Brennan’s OpEd in the New York Times. It is an egregious piece of propaganda and faux nostalgia.

Two items in the article particularly caught my eye. The first was Brennan’s claim that he is a “non-partisan”, which is true only in the sense of his own willingness to do anything for anybody who will improve his official position and, so, his financial position. The second was his claim that in the Oval Office of four past presidents he had heard the presidents “dismiss the political concerns of their advisers, saying, “I don’t care about my politics, it’s the right thing to do.’” (1)

The latter statement rings hilariously and viciously false to anyone who worked in the Clinton administration to prepare operations for the CIA to capture or the U.S. military to kill Osama bin Laden. Clinton, I happen to know, had ten chances in 1998-1999 to try to end the bin Laden problem and refused each opportunity when it was presented to him.
I never understood why Clinton refused every anti-UBL operational opportunity.

But now, in the swirl of events that will, pray God, culminate in the annihilation of the republic’s bipartisan governing elite, I wonder if there was more to it than simply Clinton’s personal hubris and moral cowardice, and if that more could be money, Arab money.
The main commonality in the decision-making about whether to conduct an attack on bin Laden in the 1998-1999 period was that the decision was made by a small, closed group of people: Clinton, Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, DCI George Tenet, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger – who later stole probably UBL-pertinent documents from the National Archive — and, on each occasion, John Brennan. Brennan was in close and frequent contact with Tenet from his then-senior post on the Arabian Peninsula.

There are, for example, messages to the White House from him, and the then-U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, pleading that an operation to capture bin Laden in Qandahar, scheduled for May-June, 1998, be canceled because the Saudi leaders had pledged to end the bin Laden problem.

Based on this commonality, and the fact that these men were protecting what the Saudi king and his advisers had determined to the kingdom’s interests, could it be that another factor influenced the bin-Laden-protecting decisions of Clinton, Tenet, Clarke, Berger, and Brennan. It is well-known, after all, that the Saudis and their fellow Gulf Arab monarchs amply reward foreigners who forfeit their own nation’s interests and protect theirs’.

In February-March, 1999, Clinton was presented with numerous, high-quality chances to kill bin Laden – using U.S. military assets — when he was visiting a hunting camp in Afghanistan’s southern desert. The camp belonged to and was inhabited by a group of UAE princes, who heartily welcomed bin Laden to their accommodations with some regularity. Each attack opportunity was sent to the White House, and each was turned down or responded to with silence.

Shortly afterward, CIA’s Counterterrorism Center learned that the UAE Crown Prince was about to purchase more than $8 billion worth of the export model of a U.S. fighter-plane, I think the F-16.

Coincidence? Who knows, though I am not a believer in coincidences.

There may be a way to ferret out the truth.

There is a brilliant and startlingly industrious gentleman named Charles Ortel who is now minutely investigating the finances of the Clinton Presidential Library and the Clinton Foundation and its various sub-organizations. There also are reports that FBI officers in Little Rock, Arkansas, are pursuing the same targets.

Perhaps one or the other will find some record of a transaction involving those institutions that is pertinent to the coincidence of the UAE’s $8 billion-plus purchase of F-16s and the decisions of Clinton, Clarke, Berger, Tenet, and Brennan to ignore the chance to kill bin Laden.

Read more here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Former bin-Laden unit chief on Iraq
  • Former bin Laden Unit Chief Speaks
  • CIA Bin Laden Unit Leader Was Right on Ron Paul
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • German Opposition Leader Denounces the Country’s “Insane Drunkenness about War” - February 2, 2023
  • How to Broaden Your Thoughtfulness and Knowledge - February 2, 2023
  • Hillsdale College: What College Is Meant to Be - February 2, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Your Odds with Statins: 500 to 1?
  • Tom Brady Is Proof You Shouldn’t Retire if You Still Love Your Work
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • Why Some Kids Won’t Go Back to School, Ever
  • How Can You Maximize Natural Immunity to Viruses?
  • FARM AMERICA: New York City’s Finest Cheesemongers
  • Florida: Enjoy Certain Freedoms and Individual Liberties
  • Making America Great Again Is What America Wants
  • WAR HAS BEGUN: What Advice Are You Giving Your Loved Ones?
  • Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Will Western Tanks Be a Game Changer in Ukraine?
  • Warren Miller: If You Don’t Do It This Year, You’ll Be…
  • Europe Should Protect Itself
  • “I Will Veto Everything They Send Me”
  • How to Fight Wokism Idiocy
  • US Debt Now Exceeds Annual GDP?
  • The Neocon Russia-Hoaxers of Hamilton 68 Must Be Held Accountable
  • Why Don’t These Mayors Seem to Care?
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?
  • SEN. KENNEDY: This Is How to Fix Biden's Border Disaster

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s
  • Do You Trust This Rally?
  • Reagan’s America Remembered by Your Survival Guy and More
  • What Happens if the “Fed Put” Is Over for Good?
  • Tom Brady Retires, Again. Should You?
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?
  • Warren Miller: If You Don’t Do It This Year, You’ll Be…
  • Are the Realists Winning the Debate over the Future of EVs?
  • CATO: Global Freedom Is in Sharp Decline
  • Biden Administration Destroying Retiree Fiduciary Protections

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s
  • Treasury Bonds Ready to Rock and Roll
  • Survive and Thrive February 2023: 4 Life Changing Words: “You Should Try This”
  • Tom Brady Retires, Again. Should You?
  • Reagan’s America Remembered by Your Survival Guy and More
  • America’s Unprecedented Debt Problem
  • Iran’s Ballistic Missiles Could Give Russia the Edge in Ukraine
  • What Kind of Life Are You Investing For?
  • Why Don’t These Mayors Seem to Care?
  • Tactical Laser Weapon Achieves “First Light”

Breaking News: Reform at New College, Sarasota, Florida

German Opposition Leader Denounces the Country’s “Insane Drunkenness about War”

Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s

What Is Trump’s Argument for Election in 2024?

Powell Slows Fed Funds Rate Increases

Canadian Grain Harvest Drives Railroad Income Gains

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives