Ex-CIA agent sues to publish Tora Bora account (Bin Laden escape)

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8735217/

Ex-CIA agent sues to publish Tora Bora account
Officer who helped lead mission says CIA is blocking publication of his book

WASHINGTON - The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up to Osama bin Laden’s escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much of the fighting.

In a story he says he resigned from the agency to tell, Gary Berntsen recounts the attacks he coordinated at the peak of the fighting in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001, including how U.S. commanders knew bin Laden was in the rugged mountains near the Pakistani border and the al-Qaida leader’s much-discussed getaway.

Berntsen claims in a federal court lawsuit that the CIA is over-classifying his manuscript and has repeatedly missed deadlines written into its own regulations to review his book. His attorney, Roy Krieger, said he delivered papers to the U.S. District Court in Washington after hours Wednesday.

The CIA declined to comment because the suit had not yet been filed officially.

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I sure hope the truth gets out

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1. I sure hope the truth gets out

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2. Don't even need this book...They were not serious about getting OBL

Otherwise the 10th Mountain Division, Army Rangers, and a whole mess of Navy Seals and Army Special Forces would have been in those mountains willing to fight to the death to get the crew that caused September 11th, instead of a bunch of CIA agents and special operators leading Afghans.

I do hope he gets published, though.