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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:59 p.m. EDT
Richard Clarke: Big Part of Moore's Movie 'a Mistake'

Former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who served as a principal source for conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore's movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," said this week that the central premise of the film is "a mistake."

In an interview with the Associated Press, Clarke took issue with Moore's criticism that President Bush allowed prominent Saudis, including members of Osama bin Laden's family, to fly out of the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 attacks.

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Saying Moore's version of the episode has provoked "a tempest in a tea pot," Clarke called his decision to make the bin Laden family flyout a big part of the film's indictment against Bush "a mistake."
"After 9/11, I think the Saudis were perfectly justified ... in fearing the possibility of vigilantism against Saudis in this country. When they asked to evacuate their citizens ... I thought it was a perfectly normal request," he explained.

In May, Clarke confessed that he and he alone made the decision to approve the flyouts.

"It didn’t get any higher than me,” he told The Hill newspaper. "On 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13, many things didn’t get any higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the FBI.”

Clarke told the 9/11 Commission the same thing in March, after first detailing the episode for Vanity Fair magazine last August - leaving plenty of time for Moore to adjust his film to the facts as recounted by his primary source.


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Have you seen it yet? or are you content to post endless wacko articles from people who have?
 

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I don't watch fantasies.

Newsweek magazine and Bush bashing author Richard Clark who the left was praising as a hero 2 mos. ago are hardly wacko,bucko.
 

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Here's the thing I don't get about you right wing cats...you believe your guy is right all the time so you assume all liberals must believe all other liberals are right all the time. In this case, Clarke ain't even a liberal, he's actually one in a long list of Republicans from all branches of government like Paul O'Neill who believe Bush is doing a bad job.

Clarke fvcked up - pure and simple as a number of FBI agents have voiced. Clarke was concerned for the safety of the Saudis so he authorized them to fly out. Like we used to say in the Corps when somebody fvcked up, "Good initiative, poor judgement".

I don't remember any howling lynch mobs prowling the street looking for Saudis to lynch on Sept. 13th. Like many FBI Agents, I believe the relatives should have been interviewed thoroughly. Seems to me when 3,000 people are murdered you would want to do your best to make sure no stone was left unturned.

As an aside, isn't it ironic that right wingers who don't seem to care one whit about collateral damage and civilian deaths in Iraq, nor could care less about abuse of prisoners are so concerned about the safety of a handful of Bin Laden relatives?

Now, Clarke's decision you all are portraying as if it occured in a vacuum. Fact is, Amassador "Bandar Bush" from Saudi Arabia got on Larry King and said that it was he who asked to get the Saudis out.

Now, am I some crazy conspiracy theorist who believes that Bush had complicity in 9/11? Hell no. But what bothers me is that in the aftermath of maybe the blackest day in American history, he and his Administration caved in to requests of the Saudis and there are plenty of law enforcement officals that are pissed off about it.

And if you believe Bush did not know special arrangements were made to fly Saudis out, then he has to be real ignorant for not knowing what was going on in the aftermath of 9/11.

Clarke did not make that decision in a vacuum.
 

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