Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror

Unabridged (Audiobook)

Written by:

Richard Miniter, Ian Ferguson

Narrator:

Alan Sklar

Length:

10 hours 0 minutes

Summary:

"If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened." Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton's presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the arch-terrorist's attacks would escalate, killing hundreds and wounding thousands - while Clinton did his best to stymie the FBI and CIA, and refused to wage a real war on terror. Why? The answer is here in investigative reporter Richard Miniter's stunning exposé that includes exclusive interviews with both of Clinton's National Security Advisors, Clinton's counter-terrorism czar, his first Director of Central Intelligence, his Secretary of State, top CIA and FBI agents, lawmakers from both parties and foreign intelligence officials from France, the Middle East and Egypt, as well as on-the-scene coverage. Losing bin Laden takes you inside the Oval Office, the White House Situation Room and some of the deadliest terrorist cells that America has ever faced. It is a riveting account of a terror war that bin Laden openly declared, but that Clinton left largely unfought.

Ratings:

Book (18)

Narration

Publisher:

Tantor Media

Date:

April 2004

Genres:

Politics > Political Science
History > United States

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Mary Schweitzer

This book is filled with inaccuracies / half truths and total lies. Read House of Bush / House of Saud Price of Loyalty Does America Need a Foreign Policy Against All Enemies for more of a factual based history of people who have actually been there.

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Anonymous

There are so many books out there which offer even-handed reviews of the facts, that this book should only be of interest to Rush Limbaugh and people who enjoy "Swift-Boat" type attacks of the Democratic party.

R.A. Strupp

Very good book backed-up by 100s of personal interviews. While the author pretty much tries to lay the entire blame on the Clinton Administration, there is plenty to go around among the different agencies involved. After reading The Looming Tower (about the 9/11 attacks) which was absolutely non-partisan, I can say Losing bin Laden covers the bases. Clinton haters, i.e., anyone not on welfare, or waiting for an abortion and who is aware of American History, will love Losing bin Laden.

MLG

Miniter does a credible job of exposing the failures of the Clinton Administration in ignoring international terrorism in general, and Osama bin Laden in particular. Having said that, like a lot of political writers, he engages in a certain amount of Monday-morning quarterbacking, and he places too much credence in the statements of discredited Clinton flacks like Madeline Albright and Richard Clarke. To his credit, he does not fall prey to the wild conspiracy theorizing one usually sees in political writing, particularly on the left.