Obama & H.Clinton knew of Locerbie Bomber's Release in Advance!

[melensdad]

Didn't the administration express shock? Didn't they act like they were surprised and out of the loop on this? Were they faking or were they simply not paying attentions when they were told?

No.10 turns on Obama and Clinton for criticising decision to release Lockerbie bomber
By SIMON WALTERS
Last updated at 3:14 AM on 06th September 2009

Read more: No.10 turns on Obama and Clinton for criticising decision to release Lockerbie bomber | Mail Online

Downing Street has hit back at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for attacking the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.

President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.

British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return. The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen. ‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide. ‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.

'They knew about our prisoner transfer agreement with Libya and they knew that the Scots were considering Megrahi’s case.’ Mr Obama said Megrahi’s release on compassionate grounds was a ‘mistake’ while Mrs Clinton phoned the Scottish administration to complain in person.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband are said to have been ‘disappointed’ by the force of Washington’s response. American politicians claimed the Anglo-US ‘special relationship’ had been damaged ‘for years to come’ because the UK had gone back on a joint pledge that Megrahi would stay behind bars in Scotland.

Former US Justice Department official David Rivkin said it was ‘duplicitous behaviour’.

Read more: No.10 turns on Obama and Clinton for criticising decision to release Lockerbie bomber | Mail Online

No.10 turns on Obama and Clinton for criticising decision to release Lockerbie bomber | Mail Online

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[Blue Tile Spook]

Yep, I read that story.

Lying by ommission is still lying, correct?

[jediagh]

Too bad that is a news feed from the UK. Most Amerisheep won't see it. =/

[Blue Tile Spook]

Every day I have a loop of news that I read: US, UK and Israeli. Between the three news cycles I usually have a pretty good idea of the news of the world and it is fun to compare and contrast how a certain news event is portrayed in each country.

[techres]

Originally Posted by Blue Tile Spook

Every day I have a loop of news that I read: US, UK and Israeli. Between the three news cycles I usually have a pretty good idea of the news of the world and it is fun to compare and contrast how a certain news event is portrayed in each country.

Ditto to the T! WOW!

[rambone]

[threadjack] Can you share the news sites you look at? [/threadjack]

Who or what is No. 10??

[Blue Tile Spook]

No. 10

is No. 10 Downing Street (an address and an informal title or reference) to the address of the Prime Minister of the UK. You can think of it as the British version of our White House where much of the UK's internal and external government polices are set.

For my list of reading, that is kind of hard to describe.

On Mozilla Firefox's browser I have a button that displays the highlights of the BBC's top news of the day. For more news reports I go directly to the BBC website.

I read the local newspapers for Indianapolis, Muncie (the county seat of my former county of residence) and Ft. Wayne (near my current residence).

I read the english versions of a couple Israeli newspapers but I can't remember the name of them at the moment. Jerusalem post maybe?

I have a blogroll of about 20 - 25 blogs written by people in various specialties across the country. Doctors, nurses, current military, ex-military, former spooks (Intelligence), photographers of fine art living inside and outside the U.S., people that write about firearms in their collections, current and former LEO's, FOXNews, Drudge, a now-retired aerospace Engineer that contracted with our military (plus shoots firearms, does photography and rides high performance motorcycles in his spare time), etc., etc., etc.

After a morning of reading an aggregate of the above sites I usually have a good grasp on the news of the day. Unless FOX is breaking an exclusive story I usually am a day to two days ahead of them about their mainline stories when I flip them on in the mornings. If you consider something like AOL news for giving you the news of the day, I am usually two to 7 days ahead of them.

For my off-line life I read books pertaining to:

History of WWII
American and UK Cryptology from WWI - current
Intelligence Services of allies and enemies in WWI and WWII
History of SIS, MI-5, MI-6, CIA, NSA
Memoirs of former Intelligence agents for the U.S., UK, USSR
U.S. Intelligence roles pertaining to Iraq and Afghanistan

I have kind of taken to heart the saying, "Those that do not know their history are destined to repeat it."

Sorry for the longer post and the continuing of the threadjack. Now back to your regularly schedule programming.

[Jay]

The Klintons seem to have a problem controlling their releases...

[Kirk Freeman]

Number 10=1600 Pennsylvania Street.

[Dryden]

I can understand why Osamabama & Hillary were kept informed, but why wasn't BILL Clinton involved? After all, he is the Secretary of State. Just ask China, North Korea and Iran.