US Senator Rand Paul calls for release of 9/11 report implicating Saudi Arabia

US Senator Rand Paul has joined a group of bipartisan lawmakers promoting legislation to force President Barack Obama to publish a classified document which reportedly implicates Saudi Arabia as a financier of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is sponsoring the "Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act," which would require the White House to declassify and make public the 28-page report that some say will show that Saudi Arabia financed the 9/11 attacks.

The 28 pages are part of a larger Congressional report on 9/11 intelligence released in 2002 called the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Paul appeared at a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday along with a bipartisan group of House of Representatives lawmakers, as well as members of the group 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism, according to the Washington Post.

"We cannot let page after page of blanked-out documents be obscured by a veil, leaving these family members to wonder if there is additional information surrounding these horrible acts," Paul said at the press conference.

Paul's current allies in the House are also pushing for the report’s release, along with Democratic co-sponsors of the bill Senators Ron Wyden and Kristen Gillibrand.

The George W. Bush administration decided to withhold parts of the report, claiming the contents would disclose intelligence gathering methods and make it more difficult to find terrorists.

The Saudi government was one of the Bush administration's closest allies in the Middle East.

The redacted section has been held secret possibly because the pages show how much the Saudi government knew about 9/11 hijackers. The Saudi government, however, denies any connection.

The White House is now considering whether it will release the pages on its own. President Obama has previously said he supports such a move.

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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