The 9-11 Report was criticized by many as crafted by the Commission to avoid any real criticism of individuals in prior administrations. Carefully selected by the two parties, the Commission was composed of highly reliable and connected individuals that avoided assigning responsibility despite the obvious intelligence indicating a pending attack. There was one section of the Report however that was notably sealed and kept from the public. Twenty-eight mysterious pages that the Bush and Obama Administrations did not want the public to see. It was reportedly a section containing incriminating informative linking Saudi Arabia even more closely to the 9-11 terrorists. The government refused to let the public know the degree to which one of our closest allies bore responsibility for the worst attack on U.S. soil in our history. Now, thirteen years later, Commission members are finally pushing for the release of the 28 pages against the resistance of the Obama Administration, which has one of the worst records in modern history in barring public access to information.
Officials familiar with the 2003 report say that the 28 pages of redacted information raises questions over whether Saudi officials were involved in assisting Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar upon their arrival in Los Angeles in Jan. 2000. Given the highly political and highly edited language of the report, any direct finding of responsibility would be viewed as a notable departure and reflect substantial evidence of complicity.
There has long been questions about how two Saudi nationals so quickly secured housing and flight lessons upon their arrival despite their poor language skills and experience with the United States. Moreover, both al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar met at the King Fahad mosque in Culver City with Fahad al-Thumairy, “a diplomat at the Saudi consulate known to hold extremist views.” Notably, this Saudi diplomat was such an extremist that, despite the desire of Saudi Arabia to have him represent their country, he was denied reentry to the U.S. in 2003 for suspected terrorist ties.
Thumairy appeared to be a “a ghost employee with a no-show job at a Saudi aviation contractor outside Los Angeles while drawing a paycheck from the Saudi government”, according to media reports. Then there is Thumairy’s to Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi who became the hijackers’ biggest benefactor. Bayou was viewed as a Saudi agent before the attacks and had contact with the terrorists. Both Bayoumi and Thumairy, two extremists with connections to the hijackers, met at a Saudi consulate office on the morning of Feb. 1, 2000 and then had lunch “at a Middle Eastern restaurant on Venice Boulevard.”
The Saudis have long denied such support as “myths.” What is really shocking however is not the Saudi denials (given the Kingdom’s denial of free speech and criticism of the government), but the refusal of the Bush and Obama Administrations to allow the public to know the truth for over a decade despite this country’s loss and suffering as a result of the attacks.
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doglover,
I don’t disagree but I will point out that the release of information about Saudi Arabia will expose the whole system as the pack of lies it is.
If we aren’t bombing in Saudi Arabia then AUMF/”the war on terror” was a cover for wars of convenience and the destruction of the rule of law.
Horuss,
You are wrong. We only get about 10% of our oil from Saudi Arabia. Canada and domestic production make up most of our oil consumption. If the libtards didn’t block the pipeline it could have even been better. If the libtards would stop interfering with fracking it could be better yet.
“the “war on terror” is a fiction which ….. has been a profit center for weapons dealers/war contractors and oil producers .” so is the “war on drugs” a profit center for police forces and the prison industry.
The challenge is that weapons manufacturers, marketers, PR folks, politicians, oil corps, the military-security complex, police forces, the prison industry, and other transnational capitalists profiting from human suffering, employ millions of people.
If government were to actually serve the public the US economy would need to be entirely reorganized. Apparently those who profit from carnage and atrocities are not easily re-trained to take over clean energy, infrastructure repair, and providing social services. They seem to enjoy carnage, destruction, and plunder far more than they would enjoy constructive activities.
What does implicate mean? Did Saudi Arabia plan the attacks? Or, did the perpetrators simply avail themselves of Saudi influence to carry out the attacks? This is nothing more than more of the same old conspiracy tripe that Turley routinely posts to get attention. This blog would serve America better if it simply went after the dysfunction of the American political system regardless of the politicians. It’s a sewer and those that live in it are rats, bought and paid for. If you want to get rid of the rats, get rid of the sewer.
Yes, this will implicate Clinton, Bush and Cheney. It will implicate Obama for obstructing justice.
We have all been assured that we must go to war with and kill the people who attacked us on 9/11. USG has gone to war against many nations of the Middle East by citing this fake reason, including nations which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. We can understand that this is a fake reason by looking at how we didn’t’ go to war with Saudi Arabia. Logic tells us that the US needed to start cluster bombing and droning the crap out of Saudi Arabia right away if it was true.
While of course I do not think the US should do such a thing (I don’t think they should being doing this anywhere), the logical conclusion of the Bush and Obama administrations’ war on terror would be that we should be at war with Saudi Arabia (as the evidence links the attack all the way to the top of their government). What this report will reveal is that both Bush and Obama do not really need to go to war with terrorists. It will show that the “war on terror” is a fiction which has been used to erase the rights of Americans and has been a profit center for weapons dealers/war contractors and oil producers .
They most certainly could have and can now take a law enforcement approach to those who perpetrated this crime. Instead, the US engages in wanton murder, torture and has destroyed our Constitution. Truly, USG acts more like a criminal enterprise than a nation. That is what these 28 pages will reveal and why Obama will fight as hard as he can to keep them secret from the people who have a right to know.
I’ve never understood why Saudi Arabia is considered “one of our closest allies.” In any case, if The Donald is elected, the report will be released.
I’m sure we’ll be seeing Darth Cheney come out of the shadows soon and deflect why publishing these pages will be damaging to “national security”.
The truth is it has long been known to those who care to find out, and particularly in the US government, that the Saudi royal family and associated oligarchs in Saudi Arabia who are extremists have been the funding source not just for the attacks on 9/11 but much of the terrorism around the world carried out by extremists using Islam as an excuse. The most important thing we can do for our own security is to completely eliminate our need for oil as a primary energy source. If we, instead, converted to renewable energy as suggested by liberals and the left for decades, we would not need Saudi Arabia or any foreign source of oil at all. This would eliminate the need for wars motivated by the need to keep oil flowing westward. The tyrants ruling the Islamic nations are our greatest enemies, not the people of those countries. The sooner we convert to renewable, clean or cleaner fuels the sooner we can cut them loose and let them fall and it won’t hurt us a bit. The big oil companies are the only obstacle standing in the way of greater security and prosperity (not to mention far more sound environmental practices).
Why don’t we just have some 13 year-old hack Hillary’s private computer? If the system is so unsecured, as claimed, we should have the report by tomorrow.
The victims have a right to know. Hopefully this post doesn’t attract that Patriot guy.
Yeah, the Clintons come to mind too. All those U.S. embassy bombings and FBI field agents warning of the Saudi pilot training while Billy chases after girls.
Then Hillary is up to her eye balls in the Arab Spring uprisings as Secretary of State while Obama goes golfing & fund raising.
TJGus I didn’t exclude anyone. I think Obama, to be frank, is just as culpable with regard to hiding this information from the American people. He ran on “I’m going to be the most transparent president ever” and he’s been the least. He has been more agressive against whistle blowers and has turned up the classifying machine so even materials that have previously been public are being clawed back.
GW Bush, Cheney and the rest have a lot to answer for …a phony war, torture and it goes on….but Obama could have set a lot of it right but chose not to.
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Thank you TJGus. Amazing how people will blame Obama for this!! All he did was keep up the secrecy, which was bad enough. But the true evil deeds were done under Bush.
I’d hate to speculate on Obama’s reason for keeping these things obscured. I’d hate to imagine that the fountainhead of world terror has paid for silence.
These have been secret since 2003. Where was all the Turley outrage about the Bush administration’s secrecy? Justice Holmes calls for Obama to testify. I suggest they start with the guys who originated the redaction – George Bush, Cheney, and the rest of that merry gang. They ignored the warnings and then redacted the reports but Obama stands accused? What hogwash.
TJGus – the warning to Bush were very vague. However, the f-us by Clinton are on record. He had plenty of chances and failed to pull the trigger. He did bomb an aspirin factory though.
If they declassify it, we will see why they classified it to begin with and whether it was worth it.
It is about time they expose this.
The pages should be declassified and widely published. Once they Are carefully reviewed all of those who pushed to keep them secret including Obama should have to testify in public under oath why they felt the American people should be kept in the dark. The Saudis know what is in those pages and so I’ll bet does any one who is anyone in the diplomatic community and, of course the terrorists know who their funders are but not the American people. It’s a travesty!
What’s to hide?