Which part and by whom?AlabamAlum wrote:I believe that has been debunked, JD.
As of 2012, NBC News confirms that the initial reports were true and the FBI report that no Saudis left until air travel was reopened was patently false: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news ... 911-exodus
A 9/11 Commission analysis and FBI documents, however, show that the FBI’s inquiry into the Tampa flight had relied on a lone source, a Lexington police officer whose name is also redacted in the released documents. He had merely “hemmed and hawed” when an FBI agent doubted his belief that the Saudis had traveled by air – then suggested the men had in reality traveled by car. The police officer, however, had no first-hand knowledge of the event. The FBI did not at the time interview Grossi or Perez, the security escorts who had flown with the Saudis from Tampa. It interviewed Perez only years later and has never interviewed Grossi.
An FBI departmental memo dated 2003, meanwhile, shows why the bureau was reluctant to believe there had been a flight from Tampa. Having failed to check aviation records that would have shown when exactly the men had flown, it believed “such a flight on 9/13/2001 would have been in violation of the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight ban.”
As early as four days after the flight, however, the bureau had had good reason to realize that the flight had occurred. Other FBI documents, obtained by the public interest group Judicial Watch, make clear that one of the bureau’s own agents in Lexington had the information as early as Sept. 17. That fact, it seems, was filed and forgotten.
As for the bin Ladens investing in Bush-related companies, that's public record. The Arbusto connection was the subject of an investor lawsuit in the 80s. The Carlyle Group connection was reported in the fiinancial section of the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/busin ... group.html
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 [2001 - 6 weeks after 9/11] — The Saudi family of Osama bin Laden is severing its financial ties with the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm known for its connections to influential Washington political figures, executives who have been briefed on the decision said today.