Newsweek Has The Goods

Since I was away, I didn't get to share these tidbits that are currently making my skin crawl.

Newsweek reports that they DID let Osama Bin Laden get away in Tora Bora.

...The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora—intelligence operatives had tracked him—and could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK...

In his book—titled "Jawbreaker"—the decorated career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces teams in the final hours of Tora Bora, says Berntsen's lawyer, Roy Krieger. (Berntsen would not divulge the book's specifics, saying he's awaiting CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent accounts, including that of military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora a "strategic disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a cordon of conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members. Maj. Todd Vician, a Defense Department spokesman, says the problem at Tora Bora "was not necessarily just the number of troops."

Newsweek ALSO reports that with the old boss of Patrick Fitzgerald gone (having taken a new gig at Lockheed Martin), the "likely" new choice is Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum. There would be some problems with that choice however...

...he is an old friend of President Bush's and a member of his Skull and Bones class at Yale.

Remember people, only 15 new members per year are admitted to Skull and Bones. Interesting that out of few hundred people that are alive who were Bonesmen (BTW, do you know how many Bonesmen were appointed by Bush? I see the number 10 or 11 floating around the internet, but I'd like solid confirmation), this is another guy who's about as close to Bush as you can get.