http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020610;s=hitchens Tut, tut, Christopher Hitchens. You repeat the story that the FBI allowed (helped?) the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar, fly several members of the Bin Laden family out of the US on September 11. But they didn't.
Update: I finally found the January 21 Minority Report column Hitchens refers to. There he implies that the Prince's appearance on the Larry King Show of October 1st is the source of his information. But the transcript (Reminder: “It's 2001, and we can Fact Check your ass.”) reveals that the Prince, though he talked of the flight, said nothing at all about the date the Saudis left. Where is Hitchens getting his information from?
I like those I admire to be, at least in matters of simple fact, unassailably correct—in all things, and at all times. 12:28
