Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! sat down with Michael Moore recently to chit-chat about his new book, Dude, Where's My Country? Most of the interview focused on 9/11, and as you'd expect, he was wide open:

So nobody could fly -- I mean, nobody. All planes were grounded for two, three, actually up to four days. Right away, the Bush administration gave permission for private Saudi jets to be allowed to fly around America and pick up 24 members and associates of the bin Laden family in four or five cities and fly them to Boston, where they got together and then, after a few more days, were then flown out of the country to Paris without any kind of investigation by the F.B.I. or real interrogation.

Not only that, according to the New York Times last month, there's now up to 160 members of the royal family and other Saudi officials who were in the country at the time who also got free plane rides and picked up and taken out of the country when no one else could fly. So no one could fly in America on September 12 or 13 unless your name was bin Laden.

Just stop and think about that for just a few seconds. And I don't mean -- I'm not saying that just because your name is bin Laden you're automatically something -- that's not what I'm saying -- but common sense will tell anyone that, Amy, if your brother has just been accused of committing the worst mass murder in American history, would it be wrong for the police maybe to just come and ask you a few questions? Not that you had anything to do with it, but just, if he calls, could you let us know?

So here's Bush trying to deal with everything on September 11, 12, 13, you know, I mean, you remember the total state of chaos and people, just everyone, all of us, discombobulated by the whole thing. And he had the time to be thinking, what can I do to help the bin Laden family right now?

Of course, what they'll say, if you were to ask them, well, we did it for protection, worried about Americans. Americans may respond in a hostile way to anyone named bin Laden.

Well, first of all, I'm glad he has such a high opinion of us American citizens. That's not really how people are. And secondly, again, let me use the Clinton example. Imagine after the day or days after Oklahoma City, Clinton sitting around the White House going, I wonder how the McVeigh family is doing out in Buffalo right now. I hope they're ok. We don't want anything to happen -- why don't we give them a free trip to Paris. Call them up and let's arrange free planes to get the McVeighs to Paris.

So while we're being told that the hunt is on for Osama bin Laden, what's really going on, when you've got 24 bin Ladens here, you know, none of them are asked for any kind of help, none of them are interrogated. They're given, literally, the red carpet treatment in the days after September 11. My question is why? What is really going on here?

Stop asking questions, Michael. Do you hate America or something? You're making me uncomfortable... I just want to relax and buy things. Bush said he's working really hard to defend us, and stonewalling a real investigation into the greatest security failure in American history must be part of that, right? Michael? Please just stop asking questions, ok?