Both Clinton and Bush, Jr. deserve heaps of blame for lettling bin Laden take a walk.
The Clinton administration debated endlessly with the Justice Department and the CIA over whether or not the USA had the legal authority to assinate bin Laden. Good grief….
Bush Jr. let bin Laden sneak out of Tora Bora in 2001 by letting the Afghan warlords conduct the ground fighting with US air support called in by the special forces/CIA rather than the US conduct the ground operations.
Now obviously I wasn’t there and neither were any of us who are posting on the subject but the consensus from those who were there is that Bush really screwed the pooch at Tora Bora.