FBI, Saudis, 9/11

My questions is this: why did anyone think these rich group of Saudi's, some of whom were related to Bin Laden, were under threat after 9/11? Who, does the FBI suppose, was going to go after them? Some type of lynch mob? The federal government? Isn't the FBI the federal government? This still makes no sense to me.

**Ok, it makes a little more sense after reading the article carefully....the Saudi's felt themselves threatened and chartered their own flight. Still fishy, but I can understand in the wake of such awful events, of simply wanting to go home and feel safe. But still, that's from their perspective, not ours. The question is if they were poor Pakistani's related to some terrorists - there's no frigging way that we would have let them leave the country.

The real question, I guess, is whether we are able to access these people today, if we feel they need to be interviewed or if they were involved. If we can't - then some serious heads should roll in the FBI, I'm talking fired, losing pensions, even possibly locked up.