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Bill Clinton was so distracted by Monica Lewinsky, he lost track of Osama bin Laden.
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That’s according to a new book claiming the scandal that plagued the then-president haunted him to the point that he wasn’t 100% in the game — which allowed for the al Qaeda terrorist to orchestrate the attacks of 9/11.
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Doug Schoen, a campaign consultant and political adviser who worked on both Bill and Hillary’s presidential campaigns, made the stunning claim that Clinton let bin Laden get away in Power: The 50 Truths, which hits shelves on Feb. 14.
While Schoen calls Clinton “the most accomplished political operative I have ever met,” he was flabbergasted by how he was unable to avoid temptation, resulting in an 18-month affair with the White House intern.
“I watched this unraveling happen close up, in painful slow motion, from inside the White House,” he wrote, according to the New York Post.
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“I watched the White House surreptitiously mount a whispering campaign to discredit Lewinsky.”
Schoen also referred to Clinton as the “Elvis Presley of American Politics,” a master of policy and a natural schmoozer so watching the man derail his second term, getting impeached and forever tarnishing his reputation was a blow.
“There was also, I believe, a serious impact on national security,” Schoen wrote.
“On Aug. 20, 1998, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes against al Qaeda in Sudan and Afghanistan in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The strikes, named Operation Infinite Reach, missed Osama bin Laden.”
He continued: “Beset by the Lewinsky affair, the Clinton Administration lost focus and leverage to pursue him aggressively and bin Laden struck again on 9/11.”
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Schoen wrote that Clinton “never understood the fundamental problem” and always “insisted that passive receipt of oral pleasure was not sex — a concept that someone who is not a former law professor like him might struggle to comprehend.”
He added that Clinton lost the “broad popularity” he once owned in spades, particularly during the #MeToo movement.
“To this day, he appears befuddled by the Monica fuss,” Schoen wrote. “When she co-produced a TV miniseries about the saga in 2021, the fact that he was unable to offer her the apology she is owed left me disappointed and saddened.”
He added that Clinton’s “enormous contributions to politics and policy often go unremarked and unacknowledged” because of the scandal.
“I feel it is a profound loss to America that Bill Clinton no longer has the public voice that he used to.”
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