Posted on 04/17/2016 7:49:19 AM PDT by mandaladon
When the president leaves for a trip to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday an unresolved issue will go with him: did the Saudis play some role in supporting the hijackers responsible for the attacks on September 11th?
The question is being raised in the wake of a renewed push to declassify 28 pages of a 838-page congressional report on the worst terror attack on American soil.
The so-called “28 pages” are locked away in a secure basement room at the Capitol and although they can be read by members of Congress, the pages remain classified.
That the two of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks landed in Los Angeles, moved to San Diego and obtained housing, language lessons and identification is widely known.
However, those 28 pages could shed more light on the money and connections used to do so and are said to include information “suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States,” according to the chapter’s introduction in the report.
Former Senator Bob Graham told “60 Minutes” in an interview, “I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education — could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States.”
Graham is the former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and co-chair of the bipartisan joint congressional inquiry into intelligence failures surrounding the attacks. He wants those pages declassified and told “60 Minutes” he believes support for the hijackers came from the government, wealthy people and charities in Saudi Arabia.
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But the White House would not confirm that timeline and also wouldn’t confirm the president even has read the 28 pages....................Barry doesn't care
YES, and more than “some” role.
The Truthers will be coming out of the woodwork !!!!
28 pages of protecting the Saudis.
Is this the 9/11 Commission Report? The one that had Jaime Gorelick, former assistant AG who single handedly erected the CIA-FBI intelligence sharing wall that facilitated 9/11?
THE Jaime Gorelick who was also vice chair of Fannie Mae, made millionaire several times over in bonuses, preceding the loan bubble and credit derivatives that tanked the economy? That Jaime Gorelick who is also responsible for the report being discussed?
Or is the report being discussed a separate one?
That pretty much guarantees they'll never be read.
But the White House would not confirm that timeline and also wouldn’t confirm the president even has read the 28 pages. Barry doesn’t care
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He wouldn’t have to personally read it. His staff could easily digest it for him and/or brief him. This issue certainly qualifies as one of high importance as it relates to our national security. The point is, its not something that should have escaped his attention.
Bush,s fault
That pretty much guarantees they’ll never be read.
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Correct. Why would anyone expect them to read this when they don’t even read the bills they vote on? The “elites” in congress are mostly talkers, not absorbers of facts.
I have been told many times that if I am doing nothing wrong, I have nothing I need to hide. They are hiding what the Saudis did.
That explains it all as far as I’m concerned.
aftermath of 9/11 while a number of investigations were in progress, a published report surfaced stating there was reason to believe the terrorists were financed with Saudi money, implying a government link.
SA complicity in 9/11 is very old news. This topic needs to be placed in Chat
My guess is that the Saudi Government -per se- was not behind it, but that individuals in Government posts like embassy and Saudi intelligence employees were.
We covered it up so the American people wouldn’t demand severe steps against Saudi Arabian government and relations.
Time these lying SOBs in our government reveal it all to the people. Explain what needs explaining. Let the chips fall. If the Saudis were not behind it as a government, then they should engage in the required severe ass kissing to America in order to repair the damage to their reputation.
Bush screwed us on this for his buddies. Obama has done likewise.
This is supposed to be a republic. The citizenry has a right to know.
“He wouldn’t have to personally read it. His staff could easily digest it for him and/or brief him”
Bullshit. He has enough time to read 28 pages.
His and Clinton’s.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/28-pages/
Worth watching.
And this is all to make sure Saudi Arabia cannot be held financially responsible for what their government employees did. To prevent lawsuits.
Some congresscritter ought to just turn over a copy to FR...
So do we wait and see what other ‘big crisis’ is going to happen so we can go to war again? (Jeb’s reason for POTUS)...
Read this. How anyone could do this is beyond me. To betray America for what? Some money and a cigar.
How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11
http://nypost.com/2016/04/17/how-us-covered-up-saudi-role-in-911/
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