13-05-2016, 08:52 PM
Former 9/11 commissioner brings shocking new details about redacted documents to light
Matt Purple May 13th 2016 12:52PM
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/13/fo.../21376801/
What's behind the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 report, stored in a vault deep beneath the Capitol building? Most likely, they show evidence of complicity in the attacks by our great and glorious ally Saudi Arabia. Former Florida senator Bob Graham says declassifying the 28 pages will help make the case for Saudi involvement in 9/11. Congressman Thomas Massie warns, "It's sort of shocking when you read it." Former 9/11 commissioner Tim Roemer has advocated for removing most of the redactions.
Now, you can add John F. Lehman, former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and Republican commissioner behind the 9/11 report. In an interview with the Guardian published yesterday, Lehman unleashed the most shocking allegations we've heard yet: "There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government," Lehman said in an interview, suggesting that the commission may have made a mistake by not stating that explicitly in its final report. "Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia." He was critical of a statement released late last month by the former chairman and vice-chairman of the commission, who urged the Obama administration to be cautious about releasing the full congressional report on the Saudis and 9/11 "the 28 pages", as they are widely known in Washington because they contained "raw, unvetted" material that might smear innocent people. ...
Lehman said Kean and Hamilton's statement that only one Saudi government employee was "implicated" in supporting the hijackers in California and elsewhere was "a game of semantics" and that the commission had been aware of at least five Saudi government officials who were strongly suspected of involvement in the terrorists' support network. If true, the release of the 28 pageswhich could come as early as Junewould put enormous public strain on our alliance with Saudi Arabia and call into question why our government for so long has run cover for an archaic desert kingdom that constitutes the world's number one terrorism funding source. The Guardian reports fierce disagreement inside the 9/11 commission, with executive director Philip Zelikow even firing an employee because she allegedly griped over the free pass being given to the Saudis. If that's true, then Zelikow should spend the rest of this year being berated by congressional committees.
Lehman's allegations fit with what we already know about the Saudis and our government's supine posture before them. Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, as was Osama bin Laden. Yet immediately after the attacks, our government chartered flights to whisk 140 Saudis out of the country, including almost two dozen bin Laden family members. The most rookie detective on the squad knows to question a missing suspect's relations, yet here the most rudimentary police work after the crime of the centry was skipped. Why?
Andrew McCarthy, the National Review writer and terrorism prosecutor, has been probing Saudi ties to terrorism for years. Among the fishy cases he's catalogued are: Abdulazziz al-Hijji, a Saudi oil magnate who revered Osama bin Laden and was connected to the 9/11 hijackershe fled to Saudi Arabia weeks before the Twin Towers came down and the FBI buried its investigation of him; Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi government agent who previously worked for the Kingdom's defense ministry before relocating to the United States, and who befriended and aided two of the hijackers before also fleeing to Saudi Arabia; and, most damning of all, Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda mastermind, who escaped to plot more terrorist attacks after the Saudis intervened on his behalf and the Justice Department mysteriously "un-arrested" him.
Matt Purple May 13th 2016 12:52PM
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/13/fo.../21376801/
What's behind the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 report, stored in a vault deep beneath the Capitol building? Most likely, they show evidence of complicity in the attacks by our great and glorious ally Saudi Arabia. Former Florida senator Bob Graham says declassifying the 28 pages will help make the case for Saudi involvement in 9/11. Congressman Thomas Massie warns, "It's sort of shocking when you read it." Former 9/11 commissioner Tim Roemer has advocated for removing most of the redactions.
Now, you can add John F. Lehman, former secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan and Republican commissioner behind the 9/11 report. In an interview with the Guardian published yesterday, Lehman unleashed the most shocking allegations we've heard yet: "There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government," Lehman said in an interview, suggesting that the commission may have made a mistake by not stating that explicitly in its final report. "Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia." He was critical of a statement released late last month by the former chairman and vice-chairman of the commission, who urged the Obama administration to be cautious about releasing the full congressional report on the Saudis and 9/11 "the 28 pages", as they are widely known in Washington because they contained "raw, unvetted" material that might smear innocent people. ...
Lehman said Kean and Hamilton's statement that only one Saudi government employee was "implicated" in supporting the hijackers in California and elsewhere was "a game of semantics" and that the commission had been aware of at least five Saudi government officials who were strongly suspected of involvement in the terrorists' support network. If true, the release of the 28 pageswhich could come as early as Junewould put enormous public strain on our alliance with Saudi Arabia and call into question why our government for so long has run cover for an archaic desert kingdom that constitutes the world's number one terrorism funding source. The Guardian reports fierce disagreement inside the 9/11 commission, with executive director Philip Zelikow even firing an employee because she allegedly griped over the free pass being given to the Saudis. If that's true, then Zelikow should spend the rest of this year being berated by congressional committees.
Lehman's allegations fit with what we already know about the Saudis and our government's supine posture before them. Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, as was Osama bin Laden. Yet immediately after the attacks, our government chartered flights to whisk 140 Saudis out of the country, including almost two dozen bin Laden family members. The most rookie detective on the squad knows to question a missing suspect's relations, yet here the most rudimentary police work after the crime of the centry was skipped. Why?
Andrew McCarthy, the National Review writer and terrorism prosecutor, has been probing Saudi ties to terrorism for years. Among the fishy cases he's catalogued are: Abdulazziz al-Hijji, a Saudi oil magnate who revered Osama bin Laden and was connected to the 9/11 hijackershe fled to Saudi Arabia weeks before the Twin Towers came down and the FBI buried its investigation of him; Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi government agent who previously worked for the Kingdom's defense ministry before relocating to the United States, and who befriended and aided two of the hijackers before also fleeing to Saudi Arabia; and, most damning of all, Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda mastermind, who escaped to plot more terrorist attacks after the Saudis intervened on his behalf and the Justice Department mysteriously "un-arrested" him.
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Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."