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Sun May 22, 2016, 11:54 PM May 2016

Eleanor Clift: Inside a Senator’s Crusade to Release the Missing 28 Pages of the 9/11 Report

Former Florida senator Bob Graham caused a stir when he used the term “aggressive deception” to describe the FBI’s treatment of 28 pages from a 2003 congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks.

The word choice was intentional, the co-chair of the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks told The Daily Beast, because to Graham, what the FBI did was worse than the conventional Washington cover-up.


Former senator Bob Graham is on a mission to get the missing 28 pages from a congressional 9/11 investigation released. His biggest obstacle so far? The FBI.

“Cover-up is a fairly passive action. You put something away and keep it out of the vision of other people who might wish to see it,” Graham explained. “Aggressive deception is where you try to change the narrative in an untruthful way, and then you keep the material that would provide the truth away from the people. So the only thing they see and are exposed to is the false narrative.”

It’s an explosive charge, a hair’s breadth away from calling the highest law enforcement officials liars, but when Graham lays out the sequence of events that brought him—a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee— to level such a broadside, his ire is understandable...snip

...“FBI found direct ties between 9/11 hijackers and Saudis living in Florida: Congress kept in dark,”...snipped
MORE: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/17/inside-a-senator-s-crusade-to-release-the-missing-28-pages-of-the-9-11-report.html

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