More Saudi flights from U.S. revealed

From the New York Times via the Houston Chronicle:

The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, which provided copies to the New York Times.

The material sheds new light on the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and it provides details about the FBI's interaction with at least 160 Saudis who were living in or visiting the United States and were allowed to leave the country. Some of the departing Saudis were related to Osama bin Laden.

The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, with major passages deleted, appear to raise some new questions.

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Wasn't this something that Michael Moore was savagely attacked about in the corporate press for getting a couple of details wrong in his film Farenheit 9/11? Whatever. The point is still valid: numerous Saudi citizens, some more connected to Al-Qaeda than Saddam Hussein ever was, were clandestinely flown out of the US, by the US government, within a few days of 9/11, without even an attempt at investigation or interview. This is a fact, but the news media, in its wisdom, more likely in its stupidity, saw fit to bash Moore on piddling bullshit.

America continues to amaze me.

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