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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11467)	4/2/2004 1:02:29 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Don't lie. Read his statement. He didn't say he was ordered. The fact that he claims to have checked with someone at the FBI before granting the Saudi request shows he wasn't operating under orders.

To: American Spirit who wrote (11467)	4/2/2004 1:14:42 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Brumar is correct on this issue. 1) Clarke received a request from the Saudi embassy. 2) Clarke refused to approve the request. 3) Clarke referred the request to Dale Watson at the FBI. That is all he really knows. From the transcript, Clarke: "Now, as to this controversy about the Saudi evacuation aircraft, let me tell you everything I know, which is that in the days following 9/11 -- whether it was on 9/12 or 9/15, I can't tell you -- we were in a constant crisis management meeting that had started the morning of 9/11 and ran for days on end. We were making lots of decisions, but we were coordinating them with all the agencies through the video teleconference procedure. The Saudi embassy therefore asked for these people to be evacuated; the same sort of thing that we do all the time in similar crises, evacuating Americans. The request came to me and I refused to approve it. I suggested that it be routed to the FBI and that the FBI look at the names of the individuals who were going to be on the passenger manifest and that they approve it -- or not. I spoke with at that time the number two person in the FBI, Dale Watson, and asked him to deal with this issue. The FBI then approved -- after some period of time, and I can't tell you how long -- approved the flight. Now, what degree of review the FBI did of those names, I cannot tell you. How many people there are on the plane, I cannot tell you. But I have asked since: Were there any individuals on that flight that in retrospect the FBI wishes they could have interviewed in this country. And the answer I've been given is no, that there was no one who left on that flight who the FBI now wants to interview."