
Michael Moore: This is retired FBI
agent Jack Cloonan. Before 9/11, he was a senior agent on the join
FBI-CIA al Qaeda task force.
Jack Cloonan: I, as an investigator, would not want these people to have
left. I think, in the case of the bin Laden family, I think it would
have been prudent to hand the subpoenas out, have them come in, get
on-the-record. You know, get on the record.
Michael Moore: That's the proper procedure?

Jack Cloonan: Yeah.. How many people were pulled off airlines after that
coming into the country who were what? They were from the Middle East or
they fit a very general picture.
Michael Moore: We held hundreds of people for weeks and months at a
time.

Jack Cloonan: We held hundreds --

Michael Moore: Did the authorities do
anything when the bin Ladens tried to leave the country?
Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud: No. They were
identified at the airport. They looked at their passports and they were
identified.
Michael Moore: Well, that's what would happen to you or I if we left the
country.
Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud: Exactly. Exactly.
Michael Moore: So, a little interview, check the passport. What
else?
Craig Unger, Author, House of Bush, House of Saud: Nothing.

[Dragnet music]



Michael Moore: I don't know about
you, but usually when the police can't find a murderer don't they
usually wanna talk to the family members to find out where they think he
might be?
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