Leahy: I Wish The Bush Administration Had Done a Better Job of Capturing Bin Laden When We Had Him Cornered in Afghanistan

I wonder if Senator Leahy knows that the Clinton administration had bin Laden under indictment as of Spring 1998. After that, bin Laden bombed the U.S. embassy in Kenya, bombed the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, and bombed the U.S.S. Cole. At the time, everyone knew he was holed up in Afghanistan, under the protection of the Taliban.

The Clinton administration’s response was to file an indictment in connection with the embassy bombings (which killed over 240 people) and to do nothing about the Cole bombing (which killed 17 American naval personnel).

To the contrary, since 9/11, we’ve decimated al Qaeda and killed or captured most of its leadership, even though bin Laden has slipped the net for now.

I wonder what Sen. Leahy thinks of the effort made to capture bin Laden in Afghanistan between April 1998 and January 21, 2001.