FBI hid information about additional 9/11 conspirators (Saudis)

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Evidence comes out (that was being held in secret by the FBI) for what was obvious all along - there were other parties involved in the 9/11 conspiracy. These other parties were Saudis and therefore apparently weren't helpful in painting the picture the FBI wanted us to get - if they had been Iraqis we would have heard about them.

Graham: FBI hindered Congress’s 9/11 inquiry, withheld reports about Sarasota Saudis

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The suit seeks the records of an FBI investigation into Esam Ghazzawi, a former advisor to a senior Saudi Prince – who had he lived was well placed to become king -Ghazzawi’s wife Deborah and son-in-law and daughter Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji.

The Ghazzawis owned the home at 4224 Escondito Circle in the gated-neighborhood of Prestancia where the al-Hijjis lived until about two weeks before 9/11. Their hurried departure – leaving behind cars, furniture and personal effects – prompted neighbors to call the FBI.

News of the subsequent investigation didn’t surface until September 8, 2011 when its existence was disclosed in a story published simultaneously by BrowardBulldog.org and The Miami Herald.

The story reported that a counterterrorism officer, as well as Prestancia’s former administrator Larry Berberich, said that gatehouse logbooks and photographs of license plates showed that vehicles used by the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home. Analysis of phone records also linked the hijackers to their house, the counterterrorism officer said.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/05/3434487/graham-fbi-hindered-congresss.html

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1. And if you were on DU at the time you would realize they didn't even do it well...

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2. WhoWhatWhy has a good piece putting this story into perspective

http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/06/05/fbi-knew-about-saudi-911-hijacker-ties-but-lied-to-protect-national-security/

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3. Stories like this

demonstrate how bankrupt the MSM/government is when advocating for so called necessary counterterrorism powers. Their idea of an informed public is Zero Dark Thirty and Manhunt (an HBO documentary billed as the real ZDT).

How can the public have an informed debate when key information is classified? 28 pages of the JI report which detail Saudi links to 9/11 are still classified. The recent Senate report on the torture program is classified and likely will not be released.

Kurt Eichenwald (500 Days) and Peter Bergen (Manhunt) both wrote recent books about 9/11. Eichenwald got a lot of press for noting how the CIA constantly warned the Bush White House only to be ignored. He completely ignored the CIA's conduct in regard to al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. Bergen has referred to the CIA's conduct as inexplicable, a policy failure and a bureaucratic failure. How could these celebrated journalists with all their access completely fail to get answers to such a crucial aspect of US intelligence community conduct?

In an interview with The Story (public radio content show) Manhunt documentary director Greg Barker said "I mean some of the specific blames have to do with documents that may or may not have been passed to the FBI. I'm not sure that full story has come out." CIA IG Helgerson called for disciplinary panels in his 9/11 internal review. I'm not sure whether Barker doesn't know about the CIA IG report or whether he is so devoted to his CIA sources that he is unwilling to say anything bad about them. Why would a documentary filmmaker making a documentary about 9/11 and Alec Station fail to include that story? What is preventing that story from coming out? Is Barker unwilling to cover that story because it might make his sources look bad? Was access to Alec Station agents dependent on Barker putting a positive spin on Alec Station and 9/11?