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The article just claims it's "false" that they flew out before 11:00 A.M. on September 13, 2001 (apparently the end of an "official" ban on air travel) not that

• twoodfin 11y ago
  It vitiates the claim that somehow these Saudis got special treatment from the U.S. government. Many foreign nationals flew out of the U.S. when the travel ban was lifted.
  • acqq 11y ago
    > It vitiates the claim that somehow these Saudis got special treatment No, it doesn't, the "special treatment" is documented, it's just that the special treatment wasn't that they flew exactly "before 11:00 A.M. on September 13, 2001." Specifically, FBI lied about the whole issue: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/14/10672374-new-questions-about-fbi-probe-of-saudis-post-911-exodus http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/14/10672374-... "Instead of just noting that the FAA record showed the travel occurred after U.S. airspace was reopened, the FBI said Sultan and his three companions “had arrived in Lexington from Tampa by car.” “The four individuals,” the report went on, “had disobeyed the Prince [Ahmed] by traveling by car instead of by jet as the Prince had instructed them.”" And the very Snopes page seems to state that the pilot of one of the flights ("the bin Laden flight") was in fact an FBI agent?