Genuine Risk, I did a search and found several articles that have the information that you are interested in. Go to google.com and do an advanced search with "Berger" in the first line and Bin Laden" in the second line. Then click on the article that is about the 5th article down titled "The Boldness of the President".
This article has a ton of information straight from the 9/11 report. There were no fewer than 4 separate times that Berger was presneted with plans for attacking or capturing Bin Laden and each time Berger was an obstacle to action.
For example, the 9/11 report talks about a meeting between CIA Director Tenet and Berger where Tenet presented Berger with a plan to capture Bin Laden. The report states "In his meeting with Tenet, Berger focused most on the question of what was to be done with Bin Laden if he were actually captured. He worried that the hard evidence against Bin Laden was still skimpy and that there was danger of snatching him and bringing him to the US only to see him acquitted."
The article talks about the time where Berger did not want to attack Bin Laden's compound because families lived there and he feared that there could be 60-65 casualties.
Anyway, you can read the article.
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