White House Claims Osama Not 9/11 Mastermind

By Cernig

Who would have thought that on the day before the anniversary of 9/11, a White House press spokesperson would seek to redefine seven years of the war on terror just to flatter the White House's failure? That even this unmitigated disaster of an administration would have such gall? Yet, here we have it.
A reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the administration’s ongoing efforts to find the “mastermind” of 9/11, Osama binLaden. Perino interrupted the reporter, claiming binLaden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks:

Q But Osama binLaden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama binLaden was the mastermind of 9/11 –

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.

Perino also said “So there are human limitations to any — this is not the movies, we don’t have superpowers,” perhaps suggesting that's what it would take to catch Bin Laden.

(So now we know what John McCain's secret plan is - he's going to put his underpants on outside his pantyhose...)

As (Sgt.) Rock Richard says at VetVoice:

What happens when you can't catch the bad guy? You just decide he isn't the bad guy anymore, since you already caught the bad guy. Everybody wins!

And, perhaps as expected, the Associated Press swallows it whole and doesn't even burp, citing unquestioningly Perino's description of KSM as usurping binLaden's original place as mastermind and taking her at her word that it would need superpowers to catch the Al Qeada head despite the failure at Tora Bora.

Update: Larisa notes that 9/11 isn't even mentioned by the CIA on Osama's wanted poster.

It just says:

"Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."

Comments

[timmah]

WTF? Is this for real? This administration continues to bewilder and surprise me to no end.

[Ron Beasley]

Actually for the first time they are probably telling the truth but only to cover for the fact they were never able to get Osama.

[Nelson M.]

You can go along with what the Ministry of Truth sayeth or face the Ministry of Love.

[Marge]

Wait a minute. This is the first time this has been released. Only after they caught someone they could blame. Seems to me this revelation would have been ALL and I mean ALL over the news.

But, one little question. What the heck does McCain have to do with this...did he and not bush decide to tell the world about this new mastermind of 9/11. This would be the first time we heard this....gee......

[scott]

Nice timing I have to say.
"Classy" like...

[LanceThruster]

Ministry of Truth sez Winston Smith was not the mastermind, but instead Winston Smythe.

DMD! (die motherf*ckers, die!)

[Batocchio]

So first Bush is almost completely disappeared from the RNC, and now they're trying to do the same for bin Ladin and 9/11, even while they're ramping up efforts to find him before the election.

[khr]

You know, when I first saw this blogpost, I read the title as "White House Claims O*B*ama Not 9/11 Mastermind"

Which would have been news! Or do you expect the White House to contradict wingnut rumour-mongers ?

[gogetem]

Unfuckingbelievable

[DrJ]

The right wing was America's joke on the world,,
but it has turned on America's joke on America,,
I can't wait to see how many votes McBush receives in this upcoming election,, I need to know how much of the voting public has remained the same..

Holy fuckin cow,, with lipstick..