Osama Bin Laden? No Big Deal

In a Whte House press conference today a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the Bush administration’s efforts to find Osama bin Laden. Perino interrupted the reporter, claiming bin Laden was not the true “mastermind” of the attacks:

Q But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –

PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.

Perino is saying that the White House’s failure to catch bin Laden is no big deal because he was not the “mastermind.”

Nice one, George.