Posted on 12/17/2013 3:06:43 PM PST by Kaslin
Not just any jet, but the infamous F-102. The most dangerous supersonic interceptor.
I can't imagine ObaMao running a lemonade stand, much less Commander In Chief and Grand Pubah of a multi-trillion global economy. GWB with his skills in the military, global business, and upbringing around the most powerful and successful people on earth... yep - no need suspend "believe"...
Makes me sick to compare the two in any manner. Class vs. crass.
Point? I simply asked a question I did not know the answer to.
He brought us all through a lot. We disagreed with many of his policies but i never once doubted his honor.
Yes he did and I can honestly say that he was the only President I ever truly loved in my lifetime except Kennedy. And I was 13 when Kennedy was shot so that’s normal teenage stuff.
Bush set the table.
Obama served the meal.
No, I’m not at all happy.
More waterboy favors for the RINOs.
“I remember reading somewhere also that some of the Royal Saudi family were allowed to flee the USA imm. following 9/11, (While all planes were grounded), by Bush.”
They were, after being cleared, allowed to leave in the first few flights after planes were no longer grounded. The whole “thing” was a word game with the guy who oversaw the interviews asked if he had authorized the families on the flights, and they guy who authorized the family members on the flights asked if he had interviewed them.
The guy who authorized the flights was Richard Clarke...who you might recognize from other events.
Fearing reprisals against Saudi nationals, the Saudi government asked for help in getting some of its citizens out of the country .we have found that the request came to the attention of Richard Clarke and that each of the flights we have studied was investigated by the FBI and dealt with in a professional manner prior to its departure.
No commercial planes, including chartered flights, were permitted to fly into, out of, or within the United States until September 13, 2001. After the airspace reopened, six chartered flights with 142 people, mostly Saudi Arabian nationals, departed from the United States between September 14 and 24. One flight, the so-called Bin Ladin flight, departed the United States on September 20 with 26 passengers, most of them relatives of Usama Bin Ladin. We have found no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace.
The Saudi flights were screened by law enforcement officials, primarily the FBI, to ensure that people on these flights did not pose a threat to national security, and that nobody of interest to the FBI with regard to the 9/11 investigation was allowed to leave the country. Thirty of the 142 people on these flights were interviewed by the FBI, including 22 of the 26 people (23 passengers and 3 private security guards) on the Bin Ladin flight. Many were asked detailed questions. None of the passengers stated that they had any recent contact with Usama Bin Ladin or knew anything about terrorist activity.
The FBI checked a variety of databases for information on the Bin Ladin flight passengers and searched the aircraft. It is unclear whether the TIPOFF terrorist watchlist was checked. At our request, the Terrorist Screening Center has rechecked the names of individuals on the flight manifests of these six Saudi flights against the current TIPOFF watchlist. There are no matches.
The FBI has concluded that nobody was allowed to depart on these six flights who the FBI wanted to interview in connection with the 9/11 attacks, or who the FBI later concluded had any involvement in those attacks. To date, we have uncovered no evidence to contradict this conclusion.
The final Commission Report confirms that Clarke was the highest-ranking official who made the decision to let the Saudis go, and that Clarke's decision had no adverse effect on September 11 investigations. See pages 328-29 of the Report."
Getting members of the Saudi RF wasn’t such a bad idea; it got them out safe to avoid a possible lynch mob.
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