CIA op: Clinton lied about Bin Laden opportunity

WASHINGTON – Bill Clinton is a "monumental liar" for saying he refused to take out Osama bin Laden because of collateral damage, said Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's Bin Laden unit at the time.

An audio recording of Clinton made Sept. 10, 2001, recently surfaced in which Clinton said he chose not to kill bin Laden because he would have had to "destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him."

Scheuer was hot as he appeared on "Fox & Friends" Friday morning, calling Geraldo Rivera a "clown" and a "dummy" for refuting his accusation.

Scheuer headed the Bin Laden unit from 1995 to 1999.

"If you looked up the definition of the word 'lie,' [Clinton's] face would be right next to it," Sheuer said.

Just hours before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Clinton claimed that he had an opportunity to kill Bin Laden. The audio recording surfaced late last week.

Scheuer claimed only Taliban officials and Bin Laden enablers would have been at risk if Clinton approved the attack. He called Clinton a "coward" and said he is "more concerned, like (Barack) Obama, with what the world thinks about him."