Bush on Bin Laden's Satellite Phone: Wrong Again

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Posted on Jan. 10, 2006
By Jon Wiener

During his Dec. 19 press conference, President Bush rolled out an old canard to buttress his claim that America needs tighter restrictions on media coverage of national security issues: Osama Bin Laden, according to Bush, slipped away in 1998 because a newspaper printed that U.S. forces were tracking him via his satellite phone--which Osama stopped using the next day.

The implication was clear: American intelligence might have been able to prevent the 9/11 attacks, but news leaks tipped off Bin Laden and made that impossible.

There was one problem with Bush’s statement: It’s not true."

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