Saturday, March 26, 2005
FBI Aid for Saudis after 9/11
Perhaps Michael Moore was right.
And there's a difference between the FBI helping a battered wife, who's being threatened, and helping people who may have INFORMATION ABOUT MASS MURDER THAT JUST HAPPENED ON U.S. SOIL!!
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In several other cases, Saudi travelers were not interviewed before departing the country, and F.B.I. officials sought to determine how what seemed to be lapses had occurred, the documents show.
The F.B.I. documents left open the possibility that some departing Saudis had information relevant to the Sept. 11 investigation.
"Although the F.B.I. took all possible steps to prevent any individuals who were involved in or had knowledge of the 9/11/2001 attacks from leaving the U.S. before they could be interviewed," a 2003 memo said, "it is not possible to state conclusively that no such individuals left the U.S. without F.B.I. knowledge."
And there's a difference between the FBI helping a battered wife, who's being threatened, and helping people who may have INFORMATION ABOUT MASS MURDER THAT JUST HAPPENED ON U.S. SOIL!!
"I say baloney to any inference we red-carpeted any of this entourage," an F.B.I. official said in a 2003 internal note. Another F.B.I. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said this week regarding the airport escorts that "we'd do that for anybody if they felt they were threatened - we wouldn't characterize that as special treatment."
