Score One for Conspiracy Theorists

"Gosh, I thought this was just some lunatic conspiracy theory," comments Tom Tomorrow, the world's best cartoonist. (We're not just saying that because he drew the cover art for several of our books.) We thought it was a conspiracy theory too, but now the New York Times is reporting that "Top White House officials personally approved the evacuation of dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden, from the United States in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when most flights were still grounded." The Snopes web site, which normally does a good job of debunking urban legends, should also have to eat some crow for the ferocity with which it ridiculed Michael Moore for talking about this back when everyone, us included, thought this was too outrageous to be true.