How the Bush Administration Covered Up the Saudi Connection to 9/11

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43. How about

- One of Bush's first acts in office was to remove any official scrutiny of anyone flying to US from Saudi Arabia. Clinton had made it mandatory that all Saudi residents be screened due to the extremist danger from there.

- Member of CIA report that when the American delegation met wtih Afghani Talibans prior to 9/11, they wanted to hand us Osama but Cheney said he wasn't interested. He said if the Afghani's agreed to the oil pipeline their country would be coverd in gold, and if not it would be covered in blood.

- Person who was head of air defense on 9/11 is same person who excused Bush from the Guard for political activity. The std. is air forces have to be mobilized within a very short timeframe (think I remember it being 15 seconds?) when theres a threat, yet no air forces were deployed until the 3rd plane was located, long after the first 2 planes hit the Twin Towers. Like someone wanted them to do the damage they did?

- Family members of Osama and the Saudi royals flown out with no interviews or interrogation by the FBI while the rest of our airspace was closed down. FBI request to ask them questions was flatly denied.

- When Cheney had his big oh-so-secret "oil" meetings, months before 9/11, maps of the Iraqui oilfields were included and we had no holdings or dealings with them at all.

- When the Atty. General flew to Europe the summer before 9/11, he went in a private airplane due to all the grave threats to commercial airlines.