The Missing Pages of the 9/11 Report

Is it finally time to air it out with Saudi Arabia? And where would that lead?

A story that might otherwise have slipped away in a morass of conspiracy theories gained new life Wednesday when former Sen. Bob Graham headlined a press conference on Capitol Hill to press for the release of 28 pages redacted from a Senate report on the 9/11 attacks. And according to Graham, the lead author of the report, the pages “point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as the principal financier” of the 9/11 hijackers.

“This may seem stale to some but it’s as current as the headlines we see today,” Graham said, referring to the terrorist attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris. The pages are being kept under wraps out of concern their disclosure would hurt U.S. national security. But as chairman of the Senate Select Committee that issued the report in 2002, Graham argues the opposite is true, and that the real “threat to national security is non-disclosure.”

Graham said the redacted pages characterize the support network that allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur, and if that network goes unchallenged, it will only flourish. He said that keeping the pages classified is part of “a general pattern of coverup” that for 12 years has kept the American people in the dark. It is “highly improbable” the 19 hijackers acted alone, he said, yet the U.S. government’s position is “to protect the government most responsible for that network of support.”

The Saudis know what they did, Graham continued, and the U.S. knows what they did, and when the U.S. government takes a position of passivity, or actively shuts down inquiry, that sends a message to the Saudis. “They have continued, maybe accelerated their support for the most extreme form of Islam,” he said, arguing that both al Qaeda and ISIS are “a creation of Saudi Arabia.”

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Yes.

We also need to deal with the fact that Iran has helped to kill our soldiers in Iraq for years, and stop pretending we might be able to make peace with their current leadership.

 

When have we ever pretended to make peace with anyone (that wasn't 100 percent on our terms, which doesn't count)?

 

I'm all for government transparency, but not sure what releasing the redacted pages is going to accomplish.

The average American has more important things to think about than 9/11 -- like Kim Kardashian's latest greasy bootie photo.

 

Where do you think she gets all that oil?

 

It was redacted because Cheney and Bush are so close to the Saudi Royal family that they would have been implicated and indirectly complicit in 9-11.

 

I notice that once those pictures hit the net Saudi Arabia dropped the price of oil.

Just sayin'.

 

That should make the neocons doubly angry because they're driving Big Oil broke.

 

Yeah, ain't that something?