You Will Anyway: The 28 Pages

Friday, April 29, 2016

The 28 Pages

Former senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the joint congressional inquiry into 9/11 supports releasing the 28 pages of their report currently being withheld by the Obama administration, and says the 9/11 invstigation needs to be re-opened.

The reason why the 28 pages are so important is that they were the conclusion of the congressional inquiry into 9/11 as to how was that plot financed. [...] And while I can't discuss the details of that chapter, they point a strong finger at Saudi Arabia.

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What we do know publicly was that there were agents of the Saudi government which assisted at least two of the hijackers who ended up living in San Diego - provided them with financial support, with anonymity, with a place to live and with flight lessons, and protected them for, in one case, over a year.

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[And we know] a prominent Saudi family, which had lived in Sarasota for six years - two weeks before 9/11 left under what were described as urgent conditions to return to Saudi Arabia, creating the inference that they were tipped off and decided that they would be better off someplace than in Sarasota when 9/11 occurred.

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[The 9/11 Commission report] said something to the effect that there was no evidence that the senior leadership of Saudi Arabia was involved. [...] That leaves a lot of range for other representatives of the Saudi government to have played a role.

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I think it's been more than a cover up. I think it's been what I call aggressive deception. There are instances in which the FBI has publicly released statements which I know from personal experience were untrue. They stated that in this Sarasota situation - that they had completed the investigation, that the investigation determined that there were no connections between the hijackers and the prominent Saudi family, and that they had turned over all of this information to both the congressional inquiry and the 9/11 Citizens Commission. I know for a fact that none of those three statements are true.

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I think we need to have a general re-opening of the investigation into 9/11.

NPR

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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