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The Reason Why Clinton Testified Behind Closed Doors

By Matt Margolis | April 9, 2004

According to NewsMax, former President Bill Clinton, during his private interview with the 9-11 commission denied that he told a New York business group in 2002 that he had turned down an offer for Osama bin Laden’s extraditition to the United States:

“Bill Clinton said yesterday that that was a misquote,” Kerrey told WDAY Fargo, N.D., radio host Scott Hennen, in an interview set for broadcast on Monday.

A transcript of the exchange between Hennen and Kerrey was read on the air by national radio host Sean Hannity late Friday. It shows that the 9/11 Commission was unaware that Clinton’s bombshell admission that he spurned the bin Laden offer had been recorded by NewsMax.

After Kerrey said Clinton had denied the quote, Hennen said: “But wait a minute - I heard it in his own voice. I’ve heard him say it. I have the tape of him saying just that.”

“Really?” said a perplexed Kerrey. “Well, then - ship it to me, because Clinton said yesterday [in private 9/11 testimony] that he didn’t have a recollection of that.”

Hmmm… Looks like Clinton is telling lies again… Caught on tape, I can’t imagine how he could get away with this one…

I’m sure the Left will give him a pass though.

Here is a transcript of Clinton’s admission:

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.

So I 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.

And here is the audio obtained by NewsMax.