Equal Opportunity Finger-Pointing

This is great, though long overdue. The Left's annointed Bin Laden expert thinks there's blame to be had all the way around:

Harry Smith: "Elizabeth Palmer live in Pakistan this morning, thank you. I'm going to go back now to Michael Scheuer once again. Let's talk about what President Clinton had to say on Fox yesterday. He basically laid blame at the feet of the CIA and the FBI for not being able to certify or verify that Osama bin Laden was responsible for a number of different attacks. Does that ring true to you?"

Michael Scheuer: "No, sir, I don't think so. The president seems to be able, the former president seems to be able to deny facts with impugnity. Bin Laden is alive today because Mr. Clinton, Mr. Sandy Berger, and Mr. Richard Clarke refused to kill him. That's the bottom line. And every time he says what he said to Chris Wallace on Fox, he defames the CIA especially, and the men and women who risk their lives to give his administration repeated chances to kill bin Laden."

Harry Smith: "Alright, is the Bush administration any less responsible for not finishing the job in Tora Bora?"

Michael Scheuer: "Oh, I think there's plenty of blame to go around, sir, but the fact of the matter is that the Bush Administration had one chance that they botched, and the Clinton Administration had eight to ten chances that they refused to try. At least at Tora Bora our forces were on the ground. We didn't push the point. But it's just, it's an incredible kind of situation for the American people over the weekend to hear their former president mislead them."

I was honest a few weeks back in saying that I still have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to all the Blame-Bush 9/11 criticism that we were all subjected to in the 9/11 Commission hearings. To say that the Bush administration was to blame while any consideration or criticism of the previous administration's record on the matter were somehow off-limits was absurd. And it made me angry.

To see the Left's favorite CIA analyst throw the former President's remarks right back in his face is rather satisfying. Though in a very discomfiting sort of way.