Campaign Mounts to Declassify 9/11 Report’s References to Alleged Saudi Involvement

[grahamhgreen]

Nearly 13 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the extent of Saudi involvement in the deaths of almost 3,000 people remains unclear — but according to members of Congress and the families of victims, information about this has been suppressed ever since the publication of a 2002 congressional investigation into the plot.

Prior to the release of the final report of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration classified a 28-page section in the name of national security.

Though speculations, accusations, and denials have swirled around these pages over the past decade, the call for their declassification has steadily grown since December 2013, when House Representatives Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-MA) introduced Resolution 428, a two-page document urging President Obama to release them to the public. Nine other representatives from both parties have co-sponsored the resolution.

https://news.vice.com/article/campaign-mounts-to-declassify-911-reports-references-to-alleged-saudi-involvement

[merrily]

1. Good for Jones and Lynch. If there is anything the American people have a right to

know, it's who assassinated their Presidents and who attacked them on their soil.

Fuck commissions.

[Maedhros]

2. Nothing about the 9/11 attacks should be classified.

NOTHING.

[CJCRANE]

3. I find it amazing that so many people

are incurious as to what lead up to the event that "changed everything".

And the few that are interested in it usually devolve into interminable arguments about the minutiae of physics that hardly anyone understands.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

4. Who's national security?

[mountain grammy]

5. Protecting incompetence by keeping them classified.

[grahamhgreen]

6. 3 trillion dollars later.... of OUR money. We have a right to know:)

[mountain grammy]

9. Absolutely!

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, grahamhgreen.

[RandiFan1290]

8. K&R

[Fred Drum]

10. is the "Conspiracy" larger than previously thought?

or, was there no conspiracy at all

[grahamhgreen]

13. WMD in Iraq. THAT was a conspiracy.

CONSPIRACY

An agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement's goal. Most U.S. jurisdictions also require an overt act toward furthering the agreement. An overt act is a statutory requirement, not a constitutional one. See Whitfield v. United States, 453 U.S. 209 (2005). The illegal act is the conspiracy's "target offense."

[bigtree]

11. rec

[johnnyreb]

12. We got a dragon by the tail y'all, hang on!

Could be this, could be that.. DECLASSIFY Now!

10 Jun 2007
A criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office - which is understood to have discovered the payments but not whether they were illegal - was controversially dropped "in the interests of national security" last year, after Tony Blair warned that the Saudis, vital allies in the war on terror and a stabilising force in the Middle East, would stop sharing anti-terrorist intelligence if the inquiry continued.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554076/We-did-it-their-way.html

November 2, 2007
Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters "with precision."
"If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudiarabia.terrorism/index.html