CLINTON: …Ok, now let’s look at all the criticisms: Black hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Bin Laden had anything to do with black hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew al Qaeda was a growing concern in October of 1993.

WALLACE: …I understand…

CLINTON: No wait…no wait…Don’t tell me. You asked me why I didn’t do more to Bin Laden. There was not a living soul…all the people who criticized me wanted to leave the next day. You brought this up so you get an answer.

WALLACE: I’m perfectly happy to. Bin Laden says…

CLINTON: And secondly…

WALLACE: Bin Laden says…

CLINTON: Bin laden may have said that…

WALLACE: Bin Laden says it showed the weakness of the US…

CLINTON: It would have shown the weakness if we left right away but he wasn’t involved in that. That’s just a bunch of bull. That was about Mohammed Adid, a Muslim war lord murdering..thousands of Pakistani Muslim troops. We were all there on a humanitarian mission. We had not one mission — none — to establish a certain
kind of Somali government or to keep anybody out. He was not a religious fanatic.

WALLACE: But Mr. President…

CLINTON: There was no Al Qaeda…

In an apparent plot to kill U.S. servicemen headed to Somalia, a bomb explodes
at a hotel in Aden, Yemen and kills two Austrian tourists. Two Yemeni Muslims --
who had been trained in Afghanistan -- are injured and later arrested.
The Associated Press later reports that two of the Yemenis detained for the 2000
attack on the USS Cole were involved both in this 1992 Aden bombing, and a
series of other attacks in 1993.

Then there's this gem:

CLINTON: If you can criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this,
after the Cole I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the
Taliban, and launch a full scale attack search for Bin Laden.

“Battle plans,� sir? I think not. This from FRONTLINE*’s editors:

It is true that in the fall of 2000 during the last months of the Clinton
administration, there was a set of proposals developed in the National Security
Council for more vigorous steps against bin Laden including "troops on the
ground." (See Time, August 12, 2002) But these proposals, including more
funds for covert action, went nowhere while Clinton was president. The joint
chiefs rejected the idea of sending special operations troops, and the CIA had
had little luck on the ground in penetrating the Al Qaeda network. When the Bush
administration came in, they listened to these ideas but decided to do their own
policy review. Perhaps the Bush team can be criticized for failing to act
sooner, but FRONTLINE is correct when it states that "the U.S. military had no
contingency plans for an all-out war in Afghanistan." FRONTLINE quotes deputy
defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz saying: "There was no war plan of any kind for
this operation . . I mean, it was so far from what we were thinking of, we were
really starting from scratch." Proposals are not the same thing as operational
plans.

This is also supported by the descriptions of planning given by GEN Tommy Franks in his book “American Soldier.�