The 46 Senators Who Urged Bush to Declassify the 28 Pages

[johnnyreb]

http://28pages.org/2014/12/30/the-46-senators-who-urged-bush-to-declassify-the-28-pages/

December 30 2014

Today, Congressmen Walter Jones and Stephen Lynch are laboring to win a Senate ally or two to join them in pressing for the release of the classified, 28-page finding on foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers.

In 2003, no fewer than 46 senators signed a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to reverse his decision to classify those pages, which constituted an entire section of the report of the joint Congressional inquiry into 9/11.

The 2003 letter-signing effort was led by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who persuaded 43 fellow Democrats to join him, along with Republican Sam Brownback and independent Jim Jeffords. (For a complete list of signers, see below.)

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In part, the August 1, 2003 letter to Bush read:

“According to the Joint Inquiry report, the content of the redacted pages detail ‘specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11th hijackers while they were in the United States.’ Unfortunately, because all but two pages of the entire section have been deemed too secret for public disclosure, the American people remain in the dark about other countries that may have facilitated the terrorist attacks.

It has been widely reported in the press that the foreign sources referred to in this portion of the Joint Inquiry analysis reside primarily in Saudi Arabia. The decision to classify this information sends the wrong message to the American people about our nation’s anti-terror effort and makes it seem as if there will be no penalty for foreign abettors of the hijackers…Protecting the Saudi regime by eliminating any public penalty for the support given to terrorists from within its borders would be a mistake.”

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Also: Coming January 7: Press Conference on Resolution to Declassify the 28 Pages

[grasswire]

1. cool, they have a web site devoted to this issue. nt

[spanone]

2. k&r...

[rhett o rick]

3. But if we dare to speculate on what's in the pages, the CT posse will get us. nm

[johnnyreb]

4. Naw, I've never seen them kick a 28 Pages thread.

[johnnyreb]

5. January 3 2015, former Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) on CNN's Smerconish

Smerconish: ... Prince Bandar himself has requested that The 28 Pages be released, in other words there's an argument for the Saudis, they think they're being besmirched by the lack of release, can you tell me anything else Senator about their position in this regard?

Graham: I personally take that with a very jaundiced view. To me it sounds like there was an understanding between the White House and the Kingdom, uh that they would concoct this idea of asking the White House to release-- the White House refused, in fact they actually issued their refusal while representatives of Saudi Arabia were actually in the air flying to Washington. Uh, they got there, heard their request had been rejected, got back on the plane and flew back to Saudi Arabia. I think it was a very transparent uh, contrived uh, way to try to find uh, an excuse for Saudi Arabia.

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Graham: ... our failure to call the Saudis to account, I think has contributed to their feeling of impunity, that "We can do whatever we want to do because the Americans, even under the most severe provocation, are not gonna respond."

CNN's much shorter clip:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/01/03/smerconish-graham-strada-01032015.cnn

Bob Graham on December 13 2014:

Graham: There's a major issue now about the release of a long censured chapter in the 9/11 report which dealt with who financed 9/11. I think the American people have the right to know who our friends and who our enemies are.

SMERCONISH: Are you referring to the 28 pages pertaining to the Saudis that despite the president's pledge to some 9/11 victim family members, the public has still never seen?

GRAHAM: That's a major part, but not all of the information which -- of which I am aware that relates to the role of foreign governmentS in supporting the hijackers, which have been systematically withheld from the American people.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/13/smer.02.html

[Octafish]

6. Secret Government is un-American.

As it undermines the Republic, un-Democratic too.

[wildbilln864]

7. and a big K & R! n/t

[johnnyreb]

8. Press Conference Wednesday January 7 at 9:30 am, Cannon House Office Building, Room 121.