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America or a dictatorship?
We the People or plantation workers of Slavelandia?
As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks on the U.S., much of the information about those attacks is still being held secret for all these years, and the government has said much of it will remain so for “security reasons.”
The New York Times informs us, in an article appearing on 10 August, that pressure (via litigation) brought by families of the nearly 3,000 victims may have moved the Biden administration to de-classify some documents which may shed light on the connection between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia.
Biden had made a campaign promise to look into the release of the documents. On 6 August his press secretary, Jen Psaki, said that the requests for the documents “would continue to be a priority” for Pres. Biden.
The Justice Department announced that the FBI, having closed part of its investigation of the attacks, would now be reviewing and considering disclosure of documents previously deemed to need to remain secret. “The FBI will disclose such information on a rolling basis as expeditiously as possible,” the department said in a letter to the federal judges in charge of the case.
The victims’ families have long suspected that the Saudi government funded the attacks, and have exhorted every U.S. president since then to release the pertinent information. The report by the 9/11 Commission failed to unambiguously rule out Saudi involvement, leaving the families to believe that the U.S. government was covering up Saudi complicity.
There was even a slip-up in 2012 which showed that the FBI was, indeed, hiding evidence of Saudi involvement; see the Trends Journal article of 19 May 2020, “SAUDI ARABIA: WASHINGTON’S 9/11 ALLY”).
The U.S. government position has been that state secrets necessitated keeping the documents classified. The families, after trying for years, finally brought suit in 2017 after Congress overrode President Obama’s veto of a bill permitting such a suit, but lawyers for the Saudis have fought it vigorously.
And in 2019 William Barr, U.S. Attorney General under Pres. Trump, cited national security as the reason the documents should remain secret. Recently, however, 20 Saudi officials were questioned under oath, and now the suit’s progress is in the hands of the presiding federal judge.
The NYT article quotes Brett Eagleson, who was 15 yrs. old when his father, Bruce, perished in the World Trade Center attack, directing his remarks to Pres. Biden and saying, “This has gone on for too long. If you’re not going to release the documents and you’re going to continue… covering up the Saudi role,” the families could not in good faith welcome Pres. Biden to the commemorations of the tragic events.
9/11 Community United, another group of victims’ families and survivors, called Biden’s announcement a “half-hearted, insufficient commitment to transparency.”
TRENDPOST: As we have continually reported, since the worst attack by a foreign enemy on American soil took place on 9/11, both the mainstream media and Washington have made concerted efforts to underreport the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the attack were Saudis.
The most recent example was revealed on 13 May 2020 when it was reported the FBI had mistakenly revealed the identity of an official in the Saudi embassy who had a direct connection to the 9/11 hijackers. (See, “SAUDI ARABIA: WASHINGTON’S 9/11 ALLY,” 19 May 2020)