“In his memoir Jawbreaker, published in 2005, [top CIA Commander Gary] Berntsen, a Bush loyalist, tells of how his teams found bin Laden and his remaining entourage in the [Tora Bora] mountains of the Afghan-Pakistani border [in December 2001] and begged Centcom [Central Command] for eight hundred U.S. Army Rangers to ‘block a possible Al-Qaeda escape into Pakistan.’ But instead he was ignored by [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks and the Pentagon, who inexplicably entrusted the job instead to Afghan warlords with agendas of their own. Bin Laden effortlessly slipped away while Berntsen fumed.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 46