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FAHRENHEIT 9/11 -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

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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