Rumors of War (Flight of Fancy)

Normally I strongly support and use Snopes but they are still weaseling on the Saudi Flight story.

I note one thing in particular, they were only willing to use AP, NYT, and newspaper accounts. If they had checked with Judicial Watch, a non-partisan non-profit which uses FoI requests to document abuses of the law, Snopes would have found this:

The FoI response that Judicial Watch received did not include the flight from Lexington but did note 160 Saudi's flew between Sept. 11 - 15. Many of these flew out of JFK on the 13th. The question Judicial Watch asked was who 'was allowed to leave the U.S..' Since this was a US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) agency document it is unclear why they should have records of these people if they were on purely domestic flights.

PDF FOI response 160 names who were allowed to leave the country.