More nitty-gritty details reemerging

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More nitty-gritty details reemerging from the Memory Hole about what actually happened at Tora Bora, particularly how clear it is that OBL was there and just how he got away. This from a December 17th, 2001 piece in the Christian Science Monitor.

Choice quote: “Though Mr. Rumsfeld has said that the two dozen or so US Special Forces are helping to block exit routes, that number of US military personnel can only be considered a token of the real figure needed to cut off all the mountain passes surrounding the mountain enclave.”

Is anyone going to call them on this hundredth-odd deception on one of the Sunday shows? Tim, Bob, George?

Kerry tries to make what is arguably the biggest screw-up in the war against al Qaida into a centerpiece of the last weeks of the campaign. And what’s the Bush campaign’s response? Lie about it. Say it never happened.

Fits the MO.

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