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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9553)6/20/2004 8:36:42 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (3) of 90947
 
Don't know much about your source...they got some stuff wrong.

The request came to Clarke from either the State department or thew Whitehouse. He refused the request at first. But at the insistence of someone he then turned over the request to the FBI. According to Clarke that FBI cleared everyone on that flight for exit. In the final analysis it was the FBI that approved the departures. Clarke only directed the FBI to make the checks.

Now we are finding out that about 70 of the passengers that left...never were interviewed by the FBI.

I'd say that was a glaring error...or possibly someone trumped Clarke's call to the FBI.

Clarke did nothing more than take the request, refuse it, then turned it over to the FBI for their approval. When the plane left it was with FBI approval. If everyone on the plane was not properly checked out the fault is with the FBI, or someone else that ok'ed the departure without background checks.

The whole thing stinks IMHO.

Orca
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