JAWBREAKER

Kerry was right-Bush did outsource that job ‘The man who led the CIA undercover team assigned to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in the dying days of the Afghan war was Gary Berntsen. Now he is on a new mission: to convince the US public -- and the White House -- that the al-Qa'ida chief was genuinely within his grasp during the operation, codenamed Jawbreaker, in the Tora Bora mountains. In his book Jawbreaker, due for publication in October, Berntsen claims the CIA team had pinpointed bin Laden's location and "knew for certain" he was there. Berntsen's manuscript is being vetted by the CIA, but he is suing his former employers for taking too long to assess his material and for demanding excessive cuts for supposed security reasons. A spokesman for the White House last week repeated a claim made during last year's presidential election by General Tommy Franks: "We don't know to this day whether bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001." "We don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001. Bin Laden was never within our grasp." General Tommy Franks “Franks is "a great American. But he was not on the ground out there. I was." Ex-CIA field commander and author of, ‘Jawbreaker’, Gary Berntsen . John Kerry during the third 2004 presidential debate;“ I would not take my eye off of the goal: Osama bin Laden. Unfortunately, he escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora. We had him surrounded. But we didn't use American forces, the best trained in the world, to go kill him. The president relied on Afghan warlords and he outsourced that job too. That's wrong”