Attacking the poster again? I guess you trust Chenney more than Clarke? "There should be at least 100,000 witnesses from all over the country that saw this jet and yet not one person have come forward and admitted to seeing a private jet flying overhead." you can't be serious...:eek: maybe you are
"We were in the midst of the worst terrorist act in history and here we were seeing an evacuation of the bin Ladens. ... I wanted to go the highest levels in Washington," Tom Kinton, director of aviation at Boston's Logan International Airport, told the magazine. Kinton said it was clear the operation had the blessings of federal authorities. Once the flight ban was lifted, two jumbo jets transported the Saudis out of the country. The Boston Globe reported at the time that two flights bound for Saudi Arabia with members of the bin Laden clan on board left Logan on Sept. 18 and 19. Other reports put the departure date at Sept. 14. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34405
Nolan, you are missing my point. Why do I have to believe Cheney or Clarke? Why is there not a third option? Why cannot I believe nobody but myself? See your problem is you always want to reaffirm your beliefs. You always want to believe everything you hear and read. Listen, I don't believe crap that comes out of the Bush administration, and I didn't believe crap that came out of the Clinton administration either. Stop being so gullible. Has it ever occurred to you that the media is trying to sell advertising and they found the most lucrative way to do this is through sensationalizing things? Think about it dude. Or maybe you believe that we have three headed aliens walking around maybe there is a secret military base in the middle of the earth. Dude, you watch too much TV. LOL. Come back to reality.
Mav, I don't care for another pissing contest this moment, but yer eating your words up on this. Better check the facts. Sorry buddy ------>>>>>>Are you STILL disputing the flight(s) took place?Man....It's getting too old... "FBI officials say that agents had interviewed the bin Laden relatives before the White House cleared them to leave the country. " Who let Saudis flee after 9/11? Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ed...les/2003/09/30/who_let_saudis_flee_after_911/
http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2003_09_14_archive.html Bin Laden family evacuation distorted (9/16) By Brendan Nyhan A new Vanity Fair article by Craig Unger on the evacuation of Bin Laden family members from the US in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks is being misinterpreted by a number of pundits, reporters and politicians. Based on reporting by Unger and other journalists, it appears that one or more planes were allowed to enter US airspace and fly within the country to gather family members while commercial and civil aviation was grounded. Reportedly fearing retaliation, the Bin Ladens were then allowed to leave after apparently minimal questioning from the FBI. While controversy continues to surround the extent (or existence) of such questioning (see our previous post on the matter), another dispute surrounds the precise date that the Bin Ladens were allowed to leave the country and whether flights were still grounded at the time. As the Snopes.com article on the controversy recounts, almost all investigative reports in the press, including Unger's, place the flights out of the country after the resumption of limited commercial and private aviation. Unger's article documents two flights leaving the US - from Boston's Logan International Airport on September 18th and 19th. Also, the New York Times reported one flight left on September 14. While the FBI has called the Times report "erroneous," such a date would still place the flight after the resumption of limited commercial and private traffic. Unger clarified the issue during a Sept. 4 interview on CNN with Paula Zahn: UNGER: In this case, they were spirited out of the country. And they were also given an extraordinary privilege, that is, this was a time in which American airspace was locked down. This required White House approval. This was a time in which the skies were as empty as they had been in 100 years since the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. FBI counterintelligence agents were not allowed to fly during this period, yet the Saudis were. ZAHN: Well, help me with the timeline here, because it was on September 18, was one of the first flights out of the country, right? UNGER: Right. ZAHN: And we are told that there were other private planes that took off that day and there was other commercial traffic. UNGER: Oh, they did. But the key is not when they left the country. The key is when they got into American airspace, which was locked down. And the first flight I was able to document was on September 13. At 10:57 a.m. on that day, the FAA put out a notice saying all private planes could not fly. And yet a Learjet took off from Tampa just a couple hours later and landed in Lexington, Kentucky. I spoke to two people who were on that plane. ZAHN: But, once again, you don't have as big of a problem with the flight on September 18, when these family members finally left the country. UNGER: The point isn't really when they left the country. It was that the entire process required White House approval... This point has been pervasively mischaracterized. A September 2 UPI report based on Unger's article stated the following: The Bin Laden family were granted extraordinary White House privileges to fly out of U.S. airspace following the attacks of Sept. 11th, 2001. Former White House counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke told Vanity Fair the bin Laden family were granted extraordinary White House privileges to fly out of U.S. airspace following the attacks of Sept. 11th, 2001" (emphasis mine). Clarke is quoted in the article as saying "I asked them [the FBI] if they had any objection to the entire event -- to Saudis leaving the country at a time when aircraft were banned from flying." However, the rest of the article does not support this phrasing, nor have other reports provided substantial evidence supporting it. As such, asserting it to be true without substantial qualification is incorrect. The next day, attributing his statements to a summary of the article from Vanity Fair, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a committee hearing that "The basic thrust of the article is that right after 9/11 when no one was allowed to fly that some special planes were able to spirit Saudis out of the country." The quotation may have been originally mischaracterized in the Vanity Fair release Schumer drew on. During the Sept. 7 edition of NBC's "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert quoted the release as saying that "Former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke tells Vanity Fair that the Bush administration decided to allow a group of Saudis to fly out of the U.S. just after September 11 - at a time when access to US airspace was still restricted and required special government approval." This phrasing misleadingly implies that the Saudis flew out of the country "when access to US airspace was still restricted." Liberal opinion journalists quickly picked up the torch, with both Salon's Joe Conason [Salon Premium subscription or viewing of ad required] and Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer repeating Schumer's inaccurate charge on September 4 and 9, respectively. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) also repeated it on September 10 during a committee hearing, saying the piece described how "Saudis, including members of the Bin Laden family to leave the United States at a time when virtually all air flights had been shut down after September 11, 2001." And finally, on Sunday's edition of "Meet the Press," Russert further misstated reporting in the article, which is now on newsstands, in a question to Vice President Dick Cheney: Vanity Fair magazine reports that about 140 Saudis were allowed to leave the United States the day after the 11th, allowed to leave our airspace and were never investigated by the FBI and that departure was approved by high-level administration figures. Do you know anything about that? Again, Unger never documents that any Saudis were allowed to leave on the 11th, nor that all 140 did so by then. The earliest flight he documents took place within the US on the 13th, but the two he documents actually leaving the country took place on the 18th and 19th. Our understanding of the evacuation of the Bin Laden family members is incomplete. However, the lack of available information increases the burden on journalists to be precise about what we do know, which currently does not include any flights leaving the country while commercial and private aviation were grounded on Sept. 11-13.
http://advisoryopinion.typepad.com/blog/film/ I have read a synopsis, provided by Miramax. It says the film explores, among other things, President Bush's "close personal friendships and business ties with the bin Laden and Saudi royal families" and culminates "in the decision to allow bin Laden family members to fly out of the country days [after Sept. 11, 2001] without FBI questioning." Mr. Moore makes the same charge in his book, "Dude, Where's My Country?" "While thousands were stranded and could not fly," he writes, "if you could prove you were a close relative of the biggest mass murderer in U.S. history, you got a free trip to gay Paree!" This would be a shocking charge...if it were true. But it isn't. The Saudi flights -- including "Air Laden" -- have been investigated exhaustively by the 9/11 Commission, which carries no water for the president. Staffers found that there were indeed six chartered flights, carrying 142 people, most of whom were Saudi nationals, which left the U.S. between Sept. 14, 2001, and Sept. 24, 2001. But contrary to Mr. Moore's claims, not one left until after commercial airspace reopened and normal flights resumed. Moreover, the Federal Bureau of Investigation screened all passengers to ensure that no one of interest to various terror investigations was aboard. The infamous "bin Laden" flight left on Sept. 20 with 26 passengers, most of them members of the sprawling bin Laden family. Contrary to Mr. Moore's claim, however, the FBI interviewed 22 of those passengers, and checked all of them against various databases. There was no indication that any of them had been in recent contact with Osama bin Laden, or had been involved in questionable activity. The 9/11 Commission staff ran all 142 names against an updated terror watch list again this spring, and again came up with no matches. The commission also found no evidence that the flights resulted from high-level Saudi contacts with the White House. They seem to have originated with lower-level contacts with the FBI, which apparently was delighted to have these Saudi nationals located, gathered in one place, made available for questioning and allowed to leave the country. Even Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism official turned White House nemesis, agreed the flights were of no particular concern. Most of this is public record, readily accessible to Mr. Moore. When I pointed this out to him yesterday, he said: "I'm going to stick with the FBI agent who speaks on camera in my movie. The normal procedures were not followed."
You wouldn't expect Michael to be bothered with little things like facts. Assuming that anything he puts on film, says, or writes is at the very least heavily shaded (if not completely made up) seems to be a pretty reliable course. But you've got to give him credit - there's a subset of people who not only WILL but WANT to believe anything and he's becoming a master of pandering to them. Look at how many ate up all the BS he slung about Disney killing the distribution of his film at the last minute. That was all the buzz. Then he finally admits it was a load of crap and that he knew a year ago that they didn't want to distribute a politically oriented film during an election year and suddenly everyone's quiet about his lying just to drum up attention.