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Bill Clinton was 'scared and mad’ after CIA scrapped bin Laden operation: 'Do your job'

theblaze.com · 3h · first reportShare

Former President Bill Clinton is spilling the tea on one of the biggest missed opportunities in the years before 9/11. In a recent interview, Clinton said he had authorized the CIA to target Osama bin Laden but that the agency ultimately abandoned the operation because officials feared a failed mission could kill innocent civilians. Clinton explained their reasoning during a radio interview with WABC’s "Cats Roundtable" and told the hosts that he “immediately” knew who was behind the terror attacks while watching them unfold. He also reportedly said that he had “authorized the CIA to try to take him out.” “I was scared, and I was mad because we tried to get him before, and the CIA at the last minute killed the plan that I think might well have succeeded,” Clinton said. BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t buying it. “I’m just looking now for my copy of the 1998 Constitution where it says, ‘The CIA is the commander in chief of the United States,’” he says. “No ... that copy of the Constitution w