28 withheld pages of 9/11 report must be released: Kevin Barrett

Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, an author, researcher and political commentator based in Madison, to discuss a recently declassified 500-page CIA report on 9/11 with pages about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the terrorist attacks left blank.

A rough transcription of the interview follows.

Press TV: A 500-page CIA report with 30 pages relating to Saudi Arabia blacked out. Why?

Barrett: Well, I think that if the American people actually see the information linking Saudi Arabia to the alleged 9/11 hijackers, all hell will break loose. We will learn that these alleged hijackers were being funded through the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC, [and] were getting their money from Bandar [bin Sultan], who is known here in the US as Bandar Bush – the Saudi prince who is an honorary member of the Bush family.

So this would not only implicate Saudi Arabia in arranging the patsies for the fake hijackings – there were actually no real hijackings on September 11 – but it would start a process of inquiry that might lead to solving the crime. This would shake up the power structure here in the United States completely because 9/11 was actually a very complex coup d’état. As a top-level CIA official told a friend of Robert Bear’s… he relates this at the end of his book ‘See No Evil,’ which was published in 2002… top-ranking CIA official said that “When the dust finally clears, Americans will see that September 11 was a triumph for the intelligence community, not a failure.” What could that possibly mean? Well, it was a triumph in the sense that it was the most logistically complex false flag attack ever attempted and the Saudis who are very close with elements of the American deep state that pulled off September 11 along with the Israelis are going to be the first people blamed when these 28 pages are finally released, but they won’t be the last.

Press TV: Washington always demands transparency in any and all foreign policy issues and probes into sensitive matters. Now, isn’t it only logical that it hold itself to the same standard?

Barrett: Well, of course insistence on transparency coming from Washington is a complete joke. There is no more opaque bureaucracy, … in Washington DC, and you can find that out just by reading these documents that were just released under the Freedom of Information Act, they are all available on the Internet and they are utterly opaque bureaucratese CIA cover-your-whatever... it is not transparency by any means and of course, Washington is actually less transparent than countries… even Saudi Arabia, which is an extreme example of a totally opaque dictatorship. In Washington DC, they deceive the world, they do several things at once; they work across purposes to each other. For instance, one element of American power structure has created and is still supporting ISIS, while another element pretends to fight ISIS. The same was true with Al Qaeda prior to 9/11 and in fact that is one of the interesting subtexts in some of these documents. They show that two different bureaucracies in the CIA were fighting each other prior to 9/11; the UBL Department, which was tasked with going after bin Laden was fighting with another department whose name has been redacted.

I think the back story there is that the UBL Department, which was under-staffed with incompetent people who had no training for this, under-funded, were pretending to be trying to get bin Laden; but the deep state, which is funded by more than $1.5 trillion per year in drug money, which is then leveraged into even more money… that deep state element that has inter-penetrated with the CIA and other agencies which actually pulled off 9/11, was protecting bin Laden, manipulating and grooming him to be the patsy who would take the blame for the September 11th coup d’état. So yes, Washington D.C. is completely opaque and when it calls for transparency in other countries that is only so that it can see through their glass windows in order to target them.

Press TV: If the public, the American people and their respective Congressmen make a big enough fuss, who actually has the power at this point to declassify these redacted pages?

Barrett: Well, very interestingly, Senator Rand Paul just joined the movement to declassify the 28 pages. I was just speaking with Barry Kissin, who was at the hearing where Senator Rand Paul and other high-level officials were calling for this declassification.

I think if the American people demand that these 28 pages get released and get behind the few people with enough courage to lead the charge on this, including Senator Rand Paul, this could be the opening that could lead to the unraveling of the official story of 9/11. That will be a very painful thing for the United States but we need to go through that pain in order to heal.

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