GRAHAM: WHITE HOUSE USED SECRECY TO SHIELD SAUDIS
Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), former chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, accused the Bush Administration of
improperly employing national security classification in order
to conceal the extent of Saudi involvement in the September 11
terrorist attacks.
"The Administration misused the classification process to protect
the foreign governments that may have been involved in 9-11,"
Sen. Graham said in a floor statement February 3.
As evidence of this charge, he revealed new information about the
missing "27 pages" that were withheld from the published version
of the congressional Joint Inquiry Report last year.
He noted that "some of the information censored from these pages
actually appears in other parts of the report," and he went on
to describe three examples of information about Saudi nationals
that had been censored in the 27 missing pages but described
elsewhere in the same report.
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