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| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US "when most other air traffic was grounded," though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier.
The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well.
And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn't Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush's strongest critics. |
I'm sure that they've been able to come up with excuses for just about every one of Bush's failures (among the multitude) to date. He definitely hasn't been able to acknowledge many of them, that's for sure.
BTW - if you had bothered to read the original news story from the link that I posted, you would see that it was published 10-05-2001.
HERE it is again.
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