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elleng

(130,895 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 12:22 PM Sep 2016

Bob Graham: Release More 9/11 Records.

'In July, after approval from the Obama administration, Congress released a 28-page chapter of previously classified material from the final report of a joint congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said that the document had ruled out any Saudi involvement in the attack. “The matter is now finished,” he declared.

But it is not finished. Questions about whether the Saudi government assisted the terrorists remain unanswered. Now, as we approach the 15th anniversary of the most heinous attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, it is time for our government to release more documents from other investigations into Sept. 11 that have remained secret all these years.

The recently released 28 pages were written in the fall of 2002 by a committee of which I was a co-chairman. That chapter focused on three of the 19 hijackers who lived for a time in Los Angeles and San Diego. The pages suggested new trails of inquiry worth following, including why a Qaeda operative had the unlisted phone number for the company that managed the Colorado estate of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi ambassador.

Some of those questions might be answered if the government released more of the findings of the Sept. 11 commission, the citizens inquiry that followed our congressional inquest. The commission said that it found no Saudi links to the hijackers. But the government could satisfy lingering doubts by releasing more of the commission’s records. Parallel investigations were also conducted by the F.B.I. and C.I.A. How much did they look into whether Prince Bandar or other Saudis aided the hijackers?'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/opinion/bob-graham-release-more-9-11-records.html?

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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
2. I can't believe this isn't getting more attention. The official 9/11 story is unravelling
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 08:08 PM
Sep 2016

at its core.

and even here on DU, few seem to notice.

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
6. they depend on most people believe there's a moral floor they won't stoop beneath
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 07:49 PM
Sep 2016

and there isn't.

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