CNN report ignored Bush administration's alleged responsibility for bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2001

Published: August 17, 2007, 2:27 pm

Tags: barbara starr, miles o brien, cnn, the situation room, national security foreign policy, terrorism

On the August 15 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, reporting on U.S. troops having returned to Afghanistan's Tora Bora region, guest host Miles O'Brien and Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr noted that Osama bin Laden had reportedly escaped capture there in late 2001, but they did not mention CNN's previous reporting that "Washington" had apparently ignored a request from the local CIA commander, Gary Berntsen, to send more U.S. troops to help catch him. O'Brien introduced the segment by stating that "a major battle [is] under way right now ... in the rugged mountain regions where U.S. troops may have cornered Osama bin Laden in the early days of the Afghan war, only to see him slip away." In her subsequent report, Starr stated: "You do remember Tora Bora ... the mountain hideout where it was thought that Osama bin Laden was holed up, by all accounts. He and his top lieutenants escaped from there back across the border into Pakistan [in late

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