  In the classy high-brow "New York Times", Philip Shenon writes urlLink this piece about the accuracy and impending scrutiny of Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 911 ". He points out that--because of its inflammatory message--conservatives will undoubtedly be relentless in their evaluation and criticism of the facts stated by Mr. Moore. The journalist suggests that most of Moore's facts will check out, but seems skeptical about Moore's claim that the Bush administration pulled strings to get Saudi Nationals (who happened to be named bin Laden) out of the country during the period when all air traffic was still grounded.
From the New York Times: Mr. Moore may also be criticized for the way he portrays the evacuation of the extended bin Laden family from the United States after Sept. 11. As the Sept. 11 commission has found, the Saudi government was able to pull strings at senior levels of the Bush administration to help the bin Ladens leave the United States.
But while the film clearly suggests that the flights occurred at a time when all air traffic was grounded immediately after the attacks ("Even Ricky Martin couldn't fly," Mr. Moore says over video of the singer wandering in an airport lobby), the Sept. 11 commission said in a report this April that there was "no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace" and that the F.B.I. had concluded that no one aboard the flights was involved in Sept. 11. But while fact-checking his own article about fact-checking (for the New York Times), he must have missed this: From the urlLink Saint Petersburg Times : TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left.
The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky. The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky.
The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane. For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose. But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details. So not only did the flight take place, but the adminstration lied about it. Clinton got a blowjob, fibbed about it and was nearly executed for it... Sigh... 
