Former Leftie Hero Michael Scheur Confirms Clinton as a LIAR!

Following up on President Clinton's claim in last Sunday's Fox News Sunday interview that he "[W]orked hard to try to kill him. I authorized the finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since" Chris Wallace invited Michael Scheur, head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999.

Scheur had this to say about Clinton's claim:

Fox News Sunday, October 1:

MICHAEL SCHEUER: Well, the president is correct, in that he got - President Clinton is correct that he got closer than anyone, but, of course, he always refused to pull the trigger. And in addition, we were never authorized, while I was the chief of operations, to kill Osama bin Laden. In fact, Mr. Richard Clarke definitely told us we had no authorization to kill bin Laden.
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SCHEUER: Mr. Wallace, my opinion is not all that important. I went to a little Jesuit school in Buffalo called Canicius, and the priests taught us never to lie, but if you had to lie, never lie about facts. Mr. Richard Clarke, Mr. Sandy Berger, President Clinton are lying about the opportunities they had to kill Osama bin Laden. That's the plain truth, the exact truth.

Men and women at the CIA risked their lives to provide occasions to kill a man we knew had declared war and had attacked America four or five times before 1998. We had plans that had been approved by the Joint Operations Command at Fort Bragg. We had opportunities, many opportunities to kill him.

But that's the president's decision. That's absolutely the case. It's not a simple, dumb bureaucrat like me; that's not my decision. It's his. But for him to get on the television and say to the American people he did all he could is a flat lie, sir.

So Clinton lied? Gooolllleee! What's that lefty line? "When Clinton lied, No one died?" Certainly not bin Laden. And yet, three thousand Americans did die on September 11th because of multiple failures to act.

Scheur was hailed by the left as a daring, bold truth teller when he wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror" which was highly critical of the Bush Administration's efforts to fight terrorism.

Will we now see yet another flip-flop from the hypocrites who redefine "is" on an almost daily basis as they now attack their former hero?

And now for something completely different: If you haven't seen the hilarious video clip from the Tonight Show where Bill Clinton tells a seven year old girl he tried hard to kill Santa Claus, Chatterbox Chronicles has it.