Obama under pressure to declassify 28 pages of report showing Saudi link to 9/11

US President Barack Obama has come under growing pressure by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to release 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission Report that indirectly implicates Saudi Arabia in the September, 2001 attacks.

US Representative Walter Jones (pictured below), a Republican from Kentucky, has sponsored a bill that would make public all of the commission’s report, which is the official report of the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

So far, 11 lawmakers from the House of Representatives, including eight Democrats, have co-sponsored  the resolution to declassify the blacked out report from the 9/11 Commission, which was established on November 2002 and their final report was issued on July 2004.  

US Representatives Thomas Massie and Stephen Lynch, along with Jones, are seeking support for the bill, according to a report published by The Hill newspaper on Monday. Jones is speaking with several senators, including potential presidential candidate Rand Paul, about introducing a similar measure in the Senate.

“You cannot have trust in your government when your government hides information from you, particularly on something horrific like 9/11,” Jones told the Washington-based newspaper on Friday.

“If I thought this was going to do anything to jeopardize the national security of this country, I would not advocate for it,” said Jones, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee.

He emphasized that Obama had held two meetings with the families of the 9/11 victims and promised he would release the pages.

“What we’re trying to do is put pressure on the White House to keep its promise to the families,” Jones said.

Earlier this month, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that based on a congressional request made last year, the administration is considering whether to declassify the still-secret sections of the congressional inquiry.

The 9/11 Commission Report was prepared by the 9/11 Commission at the request of former president George W. Bush and Congress. The commission was set up "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks."

The commission concluded that 15 of the 19 hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, and all were members of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, but found no evidence the government of Saudi Arabia conspired in the attacks.

The commission’s report has long been rumored to contain information about a relationship between Saudi Arabia’s royal family and al-Qaeda.

US officials assert that the attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage, were carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists but many analysts say it was a false-flag operation and that Osama bin Laden was just a bogeyman for the US military-industrial complex.

They believe rogue elements within the US government orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to boost the US economy and advance the Zionist agenda. 

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