Military Judge to SecDef:  You're Too Late on 9/11 Plea Deals.  As it turns out, Secretaries of Defense don't have the authority to undo plea deals already accepted by military courts.  Who knew?  [Raises hand.]  A military judge has reinstated the plea deals that Lloyd Austin attempted to vacate three months ago.  The unnamed judged ruled that the Department of Defense lacks the authority to undo court orders in these tribunals, and to remove their convening authority ex post facto.  That will allow the masterminds of 9/11 to spend the rest of their lives in super-max facilities rather than face the death penalty: [Advertisement]  [Lengthy quote, apparently from CNN]  Doesn't Austin have the authority to revoke that?  The court apparently agreed, but any agreements and pleas accepted by the court while it had convening authority would still be valid:  "Part of his ruling was not only are they legal and enforceable," the defense official told CNN, "but that [Austin] was too late in doing that."  In other words, Austin closed the barn door after the colt had already bolted.  This seems like basic legal doctrine, too.

Watergate(s) on Steroids.  Agents had a friendly conversation with General Michael Flynn and later charged him with felony lying to the FBI.  I don't see how this law passes constitutional muster and the Fifth Amendment.  The FBI then leaned on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recused himself from Russiagate, allowing the appointment of an unconstitutional special counsel named Bob Mueller who (dramatic pause) was the FBI director (another dramatic pause) on 9/11.  Apparently the intelligence community has six ways till Sunday to get back at its critics but cannot stop 19 hijackers.  Why Bush kept Mueller and CIA Director George J. Tenet on after the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans is beyond me.  I will note that the first thing the government did in the wake of 9/11 was to create a new bureaucracy.  Never let a serious crisis go to waste.

The Communist Plan That Has Subverted Our Intel Agencies.  [Scroll down]  According to [former CIA agent J. Michael] Waller, two "cultural revolutions" took place in the intel agencies after 9/11.  The first, born of necessity under President George W. Bush, started by watching and listening to the public.  The 9/11 attack was seen as the result of intelligence failure, justifying more aggressive intelligence gathering.  The Patriot Act, the expanded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made this possible.  Financial transactions came under greater scrutiny to detect terrorist funding.  Intel coordination was centralized under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Big Tech was drawn in to help, and the FBI was doubled and armed to paramilitary proportions.  Strangely, while Americans were subject to increasing scrutiny and inconvenience, Bush took pains to choose an anodyne name — Global War on Terror — for the fight against the jihadists and to insist that Islam was "good and peaceful" and that Arabs and Muslims should not be harassed.

New Video Shows Saudi Official Plotting 9-11 Attacks in Washington DC Prior to the Massacre of 3,000 Americans.  Chris Cuomo played video on Friday night that shows a Saudi official plotting the 9-11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans.  The video aired on News Nation and shows a Saudi official plotting the attack in Washington DC. [...] In the CBS video, Omar al-Bayoui, whom the FBI says was a Saudi operative.  In the video al-Bayoui is seen casing the US Capitol in Washington DC, the likely target of the Flight 93 operation that was thwarted that day by American passengers and heroes.  The video was found by British police during a raid on Bayoumi's UK apartment days after the 9-11 attacks.

For 20 years, FBI has been hiding from the public a video of Saudi official plotting 9-11 attacks in Washington DC.  CBS just got a video that supports an allegation that was made in a lawsuit by the 9/11 families that it wasn't just about Osama bin Laden, not just Al Qaeda.  Omar al-Bayoui is a Saudi official, and that the Saudi government was involved.

The Phony War.  Back in the last century (the 1990s), we "old-timers" in the armed forces wore uniforms of blue, green, khaki, or white slacks, skirts (for women only) and pressed shirts, complete with jackets and ties.  Most of us worked side by side with civilian office workers, especially at the Pentagon. [...] All of that changed after September 11th, 2001. [...] If we weren't sent to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq, we would be prepared to do so from our cubicles.  Massive spending went into protecting federal facilities.  Where I worked, a building full of defense contractors stood next to an identical building full of government employees working on the same projects.  But only the government-occupied building received the protection of high fences, turnstiles, armed guards, and barriers to stop suicide bombers in cars.  Government always protects itself first, despite the fact that terrorists almost always choose to attack vulnerable citizens because it creates the most terror among the population, which is the whole point.

The Benefits of Hardship.  While the Patriot Act broadened the toolkit for tracking down foreign threats, its nefarious use as a domestic surveillance weapon took a sledgehammer to Americans' privacy.  Rhetorical battles against Islamic supremacy morphed into another "politically correct" surrender in which Americans were required to speak of Islam as a "religion of peace."  Fighting the terrorists overseas somehow meant we were also expected to open our doors to millions of new refugees.  What originally felt like a robust offensive strategy for eliminating hostile threats transformed into an endless military occupation on the other side of the world with little in the name of long-term strategy.  Why were Americans fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq?  If you asked a warrior, he was there for 9/11 payback and to end the threat of Islamic terrorism.  However, the official line from the White House evolved into some inscrutable notion that Americans must put themselves in harm's way, so that ancient tribal cultures could magically become stable democracies that valued human rights.  That strange vision didn't make sense to anybody but the politicians in D.C.

Joe Biden's Foreign Policy:  A Series of Failures.  [Scroll down]  The withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan marked the end of the twenty-year "War on Terror," declared by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  The Afghan operation aimed at destroying the Taliban terrorist group ended completely at the wrong time — the agreements with official Kabul and the Taliban reached during Trump's presidency were multiplied by zero.  In consequence, the Taliban seized the entire country.  The withdrawal of troops was long overdue.  The twenty-year presence in one of the most problematic regions of the world cost at least $825 billion since 2001 (several experts say that these numbers are seriously underestimated), and the lives of 2,300 soldiers.  Our troops left the country at the time of a Taliban offensive, removing the last shield protecting Afghan civilians, while also leaving the Taliban weapons worth billions of dollars, including helicopters, armored vehicles, artillery systems, rifles, and much more.

Saudis Accused of Masterminding 9/11 in Bombshell Court Filing.  Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11 has been public information for decades, with numerous sources documenting how Saudi officials Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi allegedly assisted at least two of the hijackers ahead of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  But were Thumairy and Bayoumi rogue criminal religious zealots, or were they operating under the direction of the Saudi Arabian government?  A bombshell court filing in a long-running 9/11 lawsuit makes the case for the latter argument.  Families of 9/11 victims argued in a 71-page brief filed on May 7 that Thumairy and Bayoumi operated under the directions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  [Tweet] [...] The 71-page, partially redacted court filing compiles evidence that has been trickling out over the last several years about Saudi's involvement in 9/11.  That includes a 2017 FBI report that said Bayoumi was operating directly under then Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan Alsaud — a close friend of the Bush family.

How To Waste Two Trillion Dollars.  Brown University's cost of the Afghan war project just concluded that America's longest war cost an estimated $US 2.2 trillion dollars — that's 'trillion dollars."  If we add in George W. Bush's fake `war on terror,' Brown's scholars estimate that the cost rises to US $8 trillion!  Most of this huge amount was financed by loans, not through taxes.  Meaning that every dollar spent must be paid for by borrowing.  That means paying interest (raised by taxes) on the borrowed money — $95 billion dollars of taxpayer money that Biden just gave to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine in a desperate attempt to buy the November election.  Interestingly, the much-ballyhooed war in Afghanistan has all but vanished from the media.  All the CNN generals who postured on TV about the Afghan War have fallen into silence.  They were dead wrong about the war.  The minute Donald Trump ended the Afghan War by cutting off the billions in US money that kept the corrupt US-backed Kabul regime alive, the war ended and the blizzard of propaganda against Taliban abated.  The $2.2 trillion war abruptly became unimportant.

9/11 Was Orchestrated by the Highest Levels of the US Government.  Ted Gunderson speaking at a 9/11 conference in May of 2004.

5 lies our government wants us to believe.  [#2] "Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."  This whopper led to endless Middle East wars, resulting in huge human and material losses, as well as the rise of ISIS.  According to the Brown and American University research document "The Costs of War," it led to over 940,000 deaths due to direct war violence and an estimated 3.6 [to] 3.8 million people who have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, plus 38 million war refugees and displaced persons.  The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion.

There's New Information About The CIA's Involvement With Two 9/11 Terrorists.  [Scroll down]  The graduate student claimed the encounter happened "randomly," after which he "takes them to his house, spends lots of time with them [and] integrates them into them into the community."  On 9/11, the two young terrorists killed themselves and everyone else on board a commercial jet they hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. [...] The Saudi man who "randomly" encountered the two young terrorists is al-Bayoumi, and it turns out that he was working with Saudi intelligence.  Nevertheless, neither the FBI nor the 9/11 Commission found anything suspicious about this "random" encounter or the prolonged contact between al-Bayoumi and the two young terrorists.  We learned about this only because, after 20 years, the FBI declassified a tranche of 9/11 files.  The "random" airport encounter happened in January 2000.

Bombshell Military Commission Report: 9-11 Hijackers Were CIA Agents.  An explosive court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission — a court considering the cases of defendants accused of carrying out the "9/11" terrorist attacks on New York — has seemingly confirmed the unthinkable.  The document was originally published via a Guantanamo Bay court docket, but while public, it was completely redacted.  Independent researchers obtained an unexpurgated copy.  It is an account by the Commission's lead investigator, DEA veteran Don Canestraro, of his personal probe of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants' lawyers.  Two of the hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may, wittingly or not, have been recruited by Langley long before they flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.  [Video clip]

Crew of United 23 reveal their 767 scheduled to takeoff on fateful day was raided by FBI.  The captain of a United Airlines flight due to take off from New York's JFK airport on the morning of 9/11 has said he believes his plane was intended to be a fifth aircraft in the terrorist plot.  Tom Mannello was sitting on the tarmac in the cockpit of United Flight 23 at 9 am, waiting to take off, when air traffic control ordered all flights back to their gates.  Mannello later learned box cutters were found on a plane parked at the neighboring gate, and believes a ground crew assisting the terrorists got the wrong plane, thwarting any attempted attack.

The EPA Has No Credibility.  In 2016, Christine Todd Whitman, who was the head of the EPA under President George W. Bush at the time of the 9/11 attacks, issued an apology for having falsely asserted the air quality in New York City was "safe" following those attacks.  In the days following the collapse of the Twin Towers — which sent dangerous plumes of debris and toxins into the air over Manhattan — Whitman issued a statement assuring New Yorkers that they had nothing to fear.  "I am glad to reassure the people of New York ... that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink," the statement read.  Whitman's assurances in 2001, of course, were based on the information that "government scientists" were telling her.  "The good news continues to be that air samples we have taken have all been at levels that cause us no concern," she professed.  Even while Whitman acknowledged that it was known that asbestos, lead, and other toxins had been released from the wreckage in 2001, she maintained that beyond the immediate vicinity the air did "not pose a public health hazard."  Fifteen years later Whitman did a 180.

9/11 and the Twin Towers.  [Scroll down] For example, when the towers collapsed, it was theorized that it was because of the intensity of the fire.  However, there have been many investigations (even today) that suggest that was not the case.  The towers were constructed of a high caliber steel, and to propose that fire could melt and destroy such material is preposterous, as pointed out by physicist Steven Jones.  As a matter of fact, after the buildings fell, there were photos taken of the steel beams.  They had broken, but they were almost cut clean through diagonally.  This kind of break could only be done by a particular bomb that had been placed there.  If that's not enough evidence to change your way of thinking, when the towers were built, there was concern for an airplane attack.  So the people that constructed it made it specifically to withstand such an event.  An airplane crash might have led to a huge fire inside the building, but it would never bring the towers down.

This Footage Aired Once After 9/11 and Never on TV Again.  An reporter at the Pentagon describes the lack of large airplane parts on the scene.  [Video clip]

The Years We Wasted.  The war is lost, at home and abroad.  On the domestic front, we doubled the rate of Muslim immigration to the west and began assimilating ourselves with Islam's strictures on freedom of expression and the like. [...] In the broader society, our rulers quickly determined that it was easier to punish us than our enemies.  The post-9/11 security state surely helped soften up western populations for the Chi-Com-19 lockdowns, in which entire nations have been reduced to TSA-administered airports.  As for the war overseas, it ended with a military that can do everything except win handing the keys to Afghanistan back to the guys who pulled off 9/11 — and apologizing for the two-decade inconvenience by gifting the mullahs with some of the most expensive infrastructure on the planet plus an air force, approximately five assault rifles for every Taliban fighter, and express check-in for the forty-seven per cent of the Afghan population that apparently served as US translators.  The position of the United States is far weaker than it was twenty years ago.  Around the planet, the assumption of friends and enemies alike is that the American moment is over and the future belongs elsewhere.

Biden signs executive order demanding the DOJ declassify FBI's 9/11 investigation documents.  President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday [9/3/2021] that ordered a review of the classified documents related to the 9/11 terror attacks — with the promise of releasing more information to the public.  Biden had been told by nearly 1,800 Americans impacted by the terror attacks last month — including victims' family members, first responders and survivors — not to come to any of the 20th anniversary events unless he declassified documents that potentially show Saudi government links to the September 11, 2001 hijackers.  The order makes no mention of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan.  "The Taliban regime is coming to an end," announced President George W. Bush at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on December 12, 2001 — almost twenty years ago today.  Five months later, Bush vowed:  "In the United States of America, the terrorists have chosen a foe unlike they have faced before. ... We will stay until the mission is done."  Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced:  "Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost a coveted base in Afghanistan and they know they will never reclaim it when democracy succeeds. ... The days of the Taliban are over.  The future of Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan."  For two decades, the message Americans heard from their political and military leaders about the country's longest war was the same.  America is winning.  The Taliban is on the verge of permanent obliteration.  The U.S. is fortifying the Afghan security forces, which are close to being able to stand on their own and defend the government and the country. [...] Similar assurances have been given by the U.S. Government and military leadership to the American people since the start of the war.

Our Afghan War Began as a Revenge Op, Now Ends as Another Defeat.  [Scroll down]  Less than one month after Bush's remarks, following a night of air bombardment and Tomahawk missile attacks, the first commandos — American Green Berets and Delta Force with the British SAS — were on the ground in Afghanistan foraging for Osama bin Laden and Taliban leaders.  To be followed at one point by more than 100,000 American troops and thousands more from NATO allies.  Nearly 800,000 Americans served at least one deployment in that God-forsaken land.  No one knows how many suffered PTSD.  Now — 7,206 days, 3,596 allied deaths, more than 20,000 wounded, and three presidencies later — the withdrawal of the last 1,900 U.S. troops is underway, scheduled for completion by Sept. 11th, the 21st 9/11 since the first and the tenth since Benghazi.  The troops' original goal was to destroy terrorist training camps, oust the Taliban, and capture bin Laden.  The first two came easily and quickly.  Then arrived the temptation to ensure that Afghanistan never became a terrorist haven again by building a new nation in a place that is not a nation.  And what has all that time, ammo, money, lives, blood, materiel, shattered hopes accomplished?

Paul Wolfowitz's Iran Connection.  It is now generally accepted that the Iraq War came about as a result in large part of manipulation of intelligence, which skewed the decision-making process.  Ahmed Chalabi, the multi-millionaire confidence trickster who headed the Iraqi National Congress, fed fabricated information to his neoconservative allies in the Pentagon and White House.  The so-called intelligence was repackaged in Doug Feith's Office of Special Plans (OSP) and stove-piped up to the decision makers, thereby circumventing the normal checks and balances in place at the Central Intelligence Agency for the vetting of raw information.  Alleged "reliable sources" provided detailed descriptions of drones capable of flying across the Atlantic Ocean, links with al-Qaeda, chemical and biological stockpiles, and hidden nuclear weapons programs, all of which became the menu du jour for policymakers.  Garbage in, garbage out developed into the standard operating procedure as the United States government willy-nilly began a war of aggression against an enemy that presented no threat, Washington's complete ignorance of facts on the ground best exemplified by its post-invasion futile search for weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.  Less well known is the role played by private neoconservative organizations in cooking the books to make the case for war.

The New 9/11: A Global Virus Pandemic.  The motivation of those who planned, organized, and implemented the false flag attack of September 11, 2001, was multifarious.  On one hand, around 3000 lives were sacrificed to start a series of neocolonial wars aimed at restoring and maintaining the superpower status of the US, in terms of economics and geopolitics.  On the other hand, this "New Pearl Harbor" was also carried through in order to bring about draconian laws.  These laws severely limited civil rights while concomitantly giving governments unprecedented powers.  For example, one may be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial in several countries; Australia has taken to the extremes and it is now punishable by five years in prison to reveal if someone is held in prison without charge or trial (e.g. a spouse).  False flag attacks are invariably constructed around a mass mind control stratagem, known as Problem, Reaction, Solution.  This stratagem is effectively used to increase a government's powers and bring about totalitarianism.

Lawsuit reveals new evidence supporting 9/11 whistleblower who alleged intel failures.  An affidavit filed as part of a lawsuit brought by a 9/11 whistleblower has revealed sworn testimony by a former Department of Defense official claiming that the whistleblower, a former military intelligence officer, was deliberately sabotaged by a Pentagon review process.  Retired U.S. Army Col. Anthony Shaffer is suing his former attorney, Mark Zaid, in Washington, D.C.'s District Court over Zaid's alleged failure to "zealously represent" Shaffer in his fight against the government over what Shaffer claims was whistleblower retaliation.  Shaffer is known for his participation in the U.S. Special Operations Command Operation Able Danger, a program meant to counteract global terrorism.  The retired colonel told the 9/11 Commission in 2004 that Able Danger had, prior to the September 11 attacks, identified two of the three al-Qaeda cells that had planned the attack, including one to which Mohamed Atta, one of the attack's chief architects, belonged.  Shaffer has alleged that the government subsequently destroyed evidence of its having been aware of Atta's identity prior to the attacks.

FBI mistakenly reveals Saudi diplomat suspected of aiding 9/11 terrorists.  FBI lawyers accidentally revealed the identity of a Saudi diplomat who agents have suspected helped deliver crucial support to the al Qaeda terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a report.  The disclosure came in court documents filed in April that were unsealed late last week in a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims accusing the Saudi government of aiding the attacks, Yahoo News reported.  The Saudi official, Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, had his name blocked out in all but one appearance in the document, with the FBI admitting to Yahoo it was a mistake.  Jarrah was a Saudi Foreign Ministry official assigned to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1999 and 2000.

Robert Mueller helped Saudi Arabia cover up its role in 9/11 attacks: suit.  After a lengthy investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller charged Russia made "multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election" and said the incursion "deserves the attention of every American."  But former FBI investigators say their old boss didn't feel the same concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by the Saudi government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks — a far more consequential, to say nothing of deadly, foreign influence operation on America.  As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not nearly as interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy, which also involved foreign intelligence officers.  Far from it, the record shows he covered up evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh — and may have even misled Congress about what he knew.

As Long as Enemies of the State Keep Dying Before Trial, No One Should Trust the State.  There is no other way to say it:  It was a political assassination.  Osama bin Laden was unarmed.  SEALs captured him alive.  Following brazenly illegal orders from Washington, they executed him.  "The (Obama) administration had made clear to the military's clandestine Joint Special Operations Command that it wanted bin Laden dead," The Atlantic reported on May 4, 2011. [...] As much as the families of 9/11 victims craved justice, it was infinitely more important to the U.S. political establishment to deny bin Laden an opportunity to publicly expound on his ties to the CIA and the CIA-funded Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, who were training and funding the "Afghan Arabs" who fought Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan during the 1980s.  Letting people learn that 9/11 would likely never have happened if not for the CIA would have been... awkward.

9/11 Victims compensation fund and what you don't know about it.  Inclusions in the Victims compensation fund bill you should hear about.  First, this bill compensates victims until 2092.  It is not limited to First Responders and crash site workers, "Passersby" now qualify.  I am not a wizard at math but 9/11 occurred in 2001.  We are talking 90 years.  In an unheard of action, there are simply no limitations placed on any amount of money to be paid.  This boondoggle is not limited to First responders and those who worked the clean up sites even now.

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Why is the government using taxpayer money to compensate victims of terrorist attacks?  What part of the Constitution authorizes payments of this sort?  (I know — what difference at this point does it make?)  Such compensation could only be justified if the government caused the 9/11 attacks, and was proven to be at fault.  But the official story is that hijackers acting on behalf of the Religion of Peace crashed into the Twin Towers, both of which collapsed (each one falling straight down onto its own footprint as if professionally imploded) within two hours of being struck by the airplanes.  This happened even though no concrete-and-steel building had ever collapsed before as the result of a fire.  Oh, and World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed, too, the same day, even though no plane had hit it, and there were only minor fires in progress at the time.  But you're not supposed to remember that — and how could you remember anyway, since that even was barely mentioned in the news media — and if you speak in public about the collapse of WTC-7, you'll be ostracized as a "9/11 Truther."  In the very long term, it doesn't matter who was the mastermind behind the 9/11/2001 events.  Those responsible will pay for their sins in a lake of fire — forever.

NYC: Saudi sculpture to be removed from Ground Zero... but placed at JFK Airport.  Somebody thought it would be a good idea to install a 9-foot-tall statue — paying tribute to Saudi Arabia and displaying its flag — near the 9/11 Memorial earlier this month, and New Yorkers are not happy.  As a result, Port Authority officials have decided to remove the art exhibit and place it somewhere else after receiving countless complaints from social media users and local victims groups — who are outraged since 15 of the 19 attackers on September 11 were Saudi citizens.

Saudi Arabian Flag Candy Statue Removed From Ground Zero Following Backlash.  A nine-foot sculpture depicting the Saudi Arabian flag in the shape of a piece of candy is reportedly being removed from its grounds near the 9/11 memorial in New York City after facing backlash.  The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said they'd relocate the installation, which features the words "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet" in Arabic, after many felt its proximity to Ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial was insulting and insensitive.  Fifteen of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 attack on the United States were Saudi nationalists, although the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long denied any involvement.

A Sculpture Celebrating Saudi Arabia Has Been Erected on Ground Zero.  A sculpture celebrating Saudi Arabia's place in the G20 Summit was erected on the World Trade Center grounds last week, a stone's throw away from the 9/11 memorial.  Shaped to resemble a piece of candy, the nine-foot-tall statue bears the Kingdom's emerald flag emblazoned with the Arabic inscription, "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet."  It was created by French sculptor Laurence Jenkell in 2011 as part of the larger installation "Candy Nations" which depicts G20 countries as sugary delights, and has since been featured in over 25 countries.  All 20 sculptures are currently on display outside the Oculus shopping center.

Hacker Group Releases '9/11 Papers', Claims Leaks Will 'Burn Down' the US Deep State.  The Dark Overlord hacker group has released decryption keys for 650 documents it says are related to 9/11.  Unless a ransom is paid, it threatened with more leaks that will have devastating consequences for the US 'deep state'.

Robert Mueller's Troubling Ties To September 11th, 2001.  Yes, there are layers upon layers of conspiracy theories still floating out there regarding what did or didn't happen on September 11th, 2001. [...] Since 2001 the United States has wasted TRILLIONS on global conflicts which in turn initiated a mass migration of Muslim bodies across the European continent and then into other countries like Australia, Canada, and the U.S.  (With a correspondent spike in Islamic militant terror attacks the clear result[.])  Whether such migration is good or bad will likely remain the subject of debate for decades to come, but in the meantime it is undeniable that the safety and security of America and the world was made less so following the horrors of 9-11 and the response that followed.  And then there is the part played by Robert Mueller...

Nolte: Watch the Oh-So 'Sacred' Intelligence Community Lie, Lie, Lie.  In 2002, in the lead up to the disastrous Iraq War, we were told to salute and buy 100 percent into the Intelligence Community's (IC) assessment that of course Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and of course those weapons would end up in the hands of terrorists.  Therefore, we had no choice but to launch a pre-emptive war, and anyone who disagreed, or who even expressed skepticism, was deemed a traitor, suspect, and un-American.  And to my everlasting shame I was one of those shaming others.  But at least I learned.

28 Pages Tie 'Moderate' Muslim Brotherhood To 9/11.  Washington has assumed the Muslim Brotherhood is, as President Obama's intelligence czar put it, a nonviolent group "largely secular" in nature.  It has even invited Brotherhood figures into Muslim outreach powwows at both ends of Pennsylvania.  But the newly declassified 28 pages detailing Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks casts serious doubt on the assumption that the Brotherhood is a benign organization.  In fact, the now-largely uncensored section of the congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 reveals that U.S.-stationed Saudi intelligence officers who aided the hijackers in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks were in contact with senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, suggesting the Saudi-funded Brotherhood was part of the support network for the hijackers and involved in the 9/11 conspiracy.

Guantanamo prisoner says Saudi 'royal' involved in terror plots.  An accused Al Qaeda bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona told military officials at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was part of an effort to recruit him for violent extremist acts before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a newly released transcript.

Clinton, Bush Implicated in Covering Up Saudi Terror in U.S..  The 28 pages of the recently-declassified report on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack not only implicated the Saudi government and its network on U.S. soil, it implicates the Clinton and Bush Administrations in covering up that network and stopping the FBI from protecting America from it.  Page 11 states:  "Prior to September 11th, the FBI apparently did not focus investigative [censored] ...Saudi nationals in the United States due to Saudi Arabia's status as an American 'ally.'...  A representative of the FBI's [censored] testified in closed hearings that, prior to September 11th, the FBI received 'no reporting from any member of the Intelligence Community' that there is a [censored] presence in the United States."  The censoring of the documents leaves us to wonder what specific terror-related presence the documents are referring to, but it is very clear that it is a network linked to the Saudi government and insufficient investigative resources were allotted for it because of those linkages.

The 28 Pages that [Reflect Badly on] Saudi Arabia.  After keeping them secret for 14 years, the White House has finally released the 28 pages that were removed from the 2002 Congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks and withheld from the final 9/11 Commission Report.  More puzzling than the elusive pages is why Obama released them, and specifically, why now.  The administration claims that the 28 pages clear the Saudis because they provide no conclusive evidence of their involvement in 9/11.  The media echo chamber followed the administration's lead:  Time, Al Arabiya, NBC, the Associated Press and many others reported that the pages contained "no smoking guns."  But there are smoking guns.  Those smoking guns expose the Saudi government as a sponsor of terrorism, and, by proxy, improve Iran's standing in the Middle East.  Author Paul Sperry writes that the 28 pages "show the hijackers got help from Saudi diplomats and spies."

29 Pages Revealed:  Corruption, Crime and Cover-up Of 9/11.  First and foremost, here is what you need to know when you listen to any member of our government state that the newly released 29 pages are no smoking gun — THEY ARE LYING.  Our government's relationship to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no different than an addict's relationship to heroin. [...] When CIA Director John Brennan states that he believes the 29 pages prove that the government of Saudi Arabia had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks, recognize that John Brennan is not a man living in reality — he is delusional by design, feeding and protecting his Saudi vice.

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The article above comes from the Huffington Post, a web site I've never intentionally visited, and a site with which I rarely agree; nevertheless, they may have a point here.

House Intel committee releases classified '28 pages' from 9/11 report.  The formerly classified section of the congressional 9/11 report that was declassified on Friday criticized the U.S. intelligence community for not having any intelligence on Saudi Arabia at all, which made it difficult to follow up on leads that some of the 9/11 hijackers might have had help from Saudi Arabia.  The first page of the document said some of the hijackers may have received support from people who "may be connected to the Saudi Government."  It said FBI sources and others said at least two of the people who may have provided help were "alleged by some to be Saudi intelligence officers."

28-Page Bombshell:  Saudi With Terror Ties Worked Security At US Border In 1999.  A Saudi national who was under investigation by the FBI checked a security checkpoint on the southwest U.S. border prior to the 9/11 attacks, according to 28 pages from a 2002 joint inquiry released by the House Intelligence Community on Friday [7/15/2016].

Congress releases secret '28 pages' on alleged Saudi 9/11 ties.  A long-classified U.S. report released Friday found that some of the 9/11 hijackers were in contact with and received support from individuals likely connected to the Saudi government.  Known as the "28 pages," the secret document was part of a 2002 Congressional Joint Inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks and has been classified since the report's completion, despite repeated calls for its release.  The document, which the administration finally delivered to Congress earlier Friday [7/15/2016], actually contains 29 pages of material, plus a letter from then-CIA Director George Tenet.  "While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government," the document says.

FEMA Investigator's Shock 9/11 Claim: 'Vault Contents Emptied Before Attack... They Knew It Was Going To Happen'.  The attacks of September 11th, 2001 will forever be mired in doubt and suspicion by millions of people who saw the events live on their televisions.  Almost immediately following the attacks theories began to emerge.  Were the hijackers operatives for a Western intelligence service?  How did a passport from one of the terrorists survive completely unscathed, only to be found later amidst the rubble of the Trade Centers?  How did WTC Building 7 collapse even though it was never struck by an airplane?  Why was President George H.W. Bush meeting with members of the Bin Laden family at the very moment of the attacks?  Were the planes that hit the buildings actually commercial airliners or were they remotely operated drones?  Why was the entirety of Ground Zero quickly sanitized and shipped to China for recycling before any investigation ever took place?  And, what are the odds that on the very day terrorists used planes to attack the Pentagon and World Trade Centers, the U.S. military was holding exercises simulating hijackers crashing planes into buildings, a circumstance that led to total confusion across the United States and a complete failure of national defense?

Twin Towers cameraman claims he's got proof the George W Bush administration was behind terror attacks.  Kurt Sonnenfeld was working for the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, an organisation tied to the US Department of Homeland Security, when the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center took place.  After the planes crashed into the building, Kurt was given unrestricted access to ground zero — the site where the buildings once stood.  Armed with camera gear, the 39-year-old was asked to film everything he saw.  His documented evidence was supposed to form part of a report about what happened — but he never handed back the footage.

A Saudi Imam, 2 Hijackers and Lingering 9/11 Mystery.  Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed might hold answers to one of the lingering mysteries of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:  What role, if any, did officials in Saudi Arabia's government play in the plot?  The man under questioning, Fahad al-Thumairy, had been a Saudi consular official based in Los Angeles and the imam of a mosque visited by two of the hijackers.  The investigators, staff members of the national 9/11 commission who had waited all day at the United States Embassy before being summoned to the late-night interview, believed that tying him to the plot could be a step toward proving Saudi government complicity in the attacks.

CIA chief believes release of 9/11 documents will clear Saudi Arabia.  CIA Director John Brennan said in an interview with a Saudi Arabian television station Sunday [6/12/2016] that he expects the 28 classified pages of a U.S. congressional report into the Sept. 11 attacks to absolve Saudi Arabia of responsibility.  "I think the 28 pages will be published and I support their publication and everyone will see the evidence that the Saudi government had nothing to do with it," Brennan said in an interview with Arabiya TV, according to Reuters.  The classified section of the 2002 report is a key part to a dispute over whether Americans should be able to sue Saudi Arabia for damages.

Saudi Arabia set to be absolved of responsibility in 9/11 in secret report, CIA chief says.  CIA chief John Brennan said he expects 28 classified pages of a U.S. congressional report into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to be published, absolving Saudi Arabia of any responsibility.  'I think the 28 pages will be published and I support their publication and everyone will see the evidence that the Saudi government had nothing to do with it,' Brennan said in an interview with Saudi-owned Arabiya TV.  His comments were dubbed into Arabic.  The withheld section of the 2002 report is central to a dispute over whether Americans should be able to sue the Saudi government, a key U.S. ally, for damages.

Suing the Saudis.  On May 17, the Senate passed legislation that would enable private citizens to sue the government of Saudi Arabia and other Saudis possibly connected to al-Qaeda for damages incurred in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that took nearly three thousand lives.  Predictably, the Saudis took an apocalyptic view of the bill.  Before it passed the Senate, the Saudi foreign minister reportedly threatened to pull hundreds of billions of dollars of investments from the United States.  One Saudi newspaper headlined it as a "satanic bill" that would "open the gates of hell."  In truth, the bill would open a window on the Saudis' involvement in the 9/11 attacks that they, and our government, have made extraordinary efforts to conceal.  President Obama has threatened to veto the measure.

Saudi Press Just Accused US Govt Of Blowing Up World Trade Centers As Pretext To Perpetual War.  In response to the U.S. Senate's unanimous vote to allow 9/11 victims' families to sue Saudi Arabia in federal court, a report published in the London-based Al-Hayat daily, by Saudi legal expert Katib al-Shammari, claims that the U.S. masterminded the terror attacks as a means of creating a nebulous "enemy" in order garner public support for a global war on terror.

Senate to Obama:  Stop hiding the truth on 9/11.  It's not often that Democratic lawmakers set out to directly confront President Barack Obama.  So by passing bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, Congress has set itself on a collision course with the Obama administration.  And it's got the Saudis so mad, they're threatening Obama.  The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, approved by voice vote, had triggered a threat from Saudi Arabia to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy if the bill is enacted.

The FBI Has 80,000 Documents on Saudi Ties to 9/11 It Tried to Suppress.  The classified 28-pages of the 9/11 report have made global headlines lately as a handful of lawmakers battle to release them to the public.  Those pages are believed by activists and members of Congress — who have seen them — to expose the role of Saudi Arabia, including government officials, in the terrorist attacks.  But according to a new report based on years of investigative journalism, it turns out there are far more than 28 classified pages on Saudi Arabia and 9/11 — there are 80,000 kept secret by the FBI. And though not all 80,000 are expected to concern the Saudi family — and the FBI insists their investigation of the documents came up empty-handed — journalists, at least one lawmaker, and heavily-redacted documents suggest otherwise.

U.S. Discloses Saudi Holdings of Treasuries for First Time.  The Treasury Department released a breakdown of Saudi Arabia's holdings of U.S. debt, after keeping the figures secret for more than four decades.  The stockpile of the world's biggest oil exporter stood at $116.8 billion as of March, down almost 6 percent from a record in January, according to data the Treasury disclosed Monday in response to a Freedom-of-Information Act request submitted by Bloomberg News.  The tally ranks Saudi Arabia among the top dozen foreign nations in terms of holdings of U.S. debt, and compares with China's $1.3 trillion trove, and $1.1 trillion for Japan.  "The politics has always been secretive, so have their finances," said David Ottaway, a Middle East Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a research institute in Washington.  "It does answer the question of how much they own, which is surprisingly not that much."

US government hid evidence that Saudi officials supported Al-Qaida in WTC attacks and didn't investigate them fully, 9/11 Commission member says.  The US failed to properly investigate Saudi Arabian involvement in the 9/11 attacks and removed evidence that Saudi officials aided the terrorists from the public version of the 9/11 Commission Report, a commission member has said.  John Lehman, who was secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration, said the 28 classified pages contain evidence that as many as six officials aided the Al-Qaida terrorists that attacked the US on September 11, 2001.

The FBI Is Keeping 80,000 Secret Files on the Saudis and 9/11.  The Obama administration may soon release 28 classified pages from a congressional investigation that allegedly links Saudis in the United States to the 9/11 attackers.  A former Republican member of the 9/11 Commission alleged Thursday that there was "clear evidence" of support for the hijackers from Saudi officials.  But in Florida, a federal judge is weighing whether to declassify portions of some 80,000 classified pages that could reveal far more about the hijackers' Saudis connections and their activities in the weeks preceding the worst attack on U.S. soil.

CIA director says secret 9/11 report pages full of hearsay, inaccurate info.  CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that 28 classified pages of a bipartisan commission's report on the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks contains "uncorroborated, unvetted information" that some could seize upon to claim Saudi Arabian involvement in the attacks.  Brennan, speaking on NBC's "Meet The Press," said such claims would be "very, very inaccurate."  The Obama administration may soon release at least part of the secret chapter, which some believe shows a Saudi connection to the Al Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa.

The Editor says...
If the information is inaccurate or demonstrably false, why was it included in the report, and why was it ever classified?

The establishment is lying about the 9/11 report.  As the push to declassify the 28 pages implicating the Saudis in 9/11 intensifies, the Washington establishment is circling the wagons around our Saudi "friends."  On Sunday [5/1/2016], CIA Director John Brennan pooh-poohed the credibility of the chapter of the 2002 congressional 9/11 inquiry dealing with foreign sponsorship of the attacks that his boss still, despite repeated promises to 9/11 families, refuses to make public.  Brennan told "Meet the Press" he's "quite puzzled" by the mounting bipartisan campaign to release the censored pages, which are said to tie Saudi government officials to some of the hijackers through financial and phone records, among other evidence.  He dismissed them as a grab-bag of "uncorroborated, unvetted information" and "just a collation of information that came out of FBI files."  In fact, much of the information sprang from Brennan's own files at Langley.

9/11 Commission Didn't Clear the Saudis.  The time has come to clarify some inaccuracies and misleading statements being made in the media regarding the 28 pages, the 9/11 attacks, the investigation of the 9/11 attacks, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).  In doing so, perhaps the American public will come to understand the importance of passing JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act) and releasing the 28 pages in their entirety.  The 9/11 Commission's mandate was to not replicate, but rather to expand upon the investigation of the JICI.  The JICI was the Joint Intelligence Committee's Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, headed by Sen.  Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss.  The JICI is where the 28 pages originated.  Furthermore, the JICI made a finding of fact and final recommendation that further investigation into the role of KSA and the 9/11 attacks needed to be done, immediately.

Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq.  One of the biggest knocks against George W Bush is that he lied about WMDs in Iraq.  Even today, liberals still spew those lies.  Before the Iraq War started under Bush, trailer load after trailer load of what is suspected to have been WMDs were moved from Iraq to Syria.  But even with all that movement, large amounts of weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.  The CIA was even able to buy 400 Borak rockets filled with pure Sarin gas.  And on top of that, our troops found 5,000 WMDs that the Pentagon kept secret until last year.

The whole 9/11 truth: Release the 28 classified pages, whatever they may say about Saudi Arabia.  Multiple official inquiries have examined the record of the killing of 2,977 people on that darkest of days, mostly at the World Trade Center.  A bipartisan, bicameral Senate and House intelligence committee investigation released an 838-page report in December 2002.  But the Bush administration classified 28 pages of the document, focusing on potential Saudi involvement in facilitating the hijackers, 15 of 19 of whom were Saudis.  Conspiracy theories abound about why, for instance, three planeloads of Saudi nationals were evacuated from the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 despite a total flight ban.  Truth was sacrificed for the sake of the supposedly higher good of diplomatic relations with a long-time ally and oil producer.  Struggle to justify secrecy, as you might try to do in retrospect, today there are no grounds for squelching facts for diplo-convenience.

9/11 Commission:  No Saudi smoking gun.  The men who led the official investigation into the September 11 attacks are fighting back against charges their commission did not delve deep enough into Saudi Arabia's involvement.  More than a decade after the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States filed its report, a new push has erupted in Washington to force the administration to released the so-called "28 pages.  These pages on purported Saudi involvement were withheld by the George W. Bush administration from a report by a special joint congressional committee that pre-dated the commission.

Saudi Influence in Washington Must End.  The 28 pages of a Congressional report detailing where the 9/11 hijackers got their financing have been classified for years, but what they contain is an open secret.  Former Senator Bob Graham explained:  "The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier.  So why keep this information secret?  Because the Saudis wield undue influence in Washington, among both parties — an influence that has deformed our response to the global jihad threat, and continues to do so.  Responding to a bill that would allow 9/11 victims' families to sue governments linked to terror attacks inside the U.S., the Saudis have acted like neither an ally nor an innocent party:  they've threatened to sell $750 billion in U.S. asserts, vividly demonstrating why their influence in Washington is so detrimental.

America deserves the truth about the Saudis and 9/11.  It's time for President Obama to declassify the 28 sealed pages of the 9/11 Commission Report — the section that details the Saudi role in the attacks.  The main noise in Washington now is over a bill to let 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia over its alleged complicity.  Obama's threatening a veto, and there are reasons to keep private lawsuits out of foreign policy.  But there's no good reason to continue keeping the American people in the dark about the report, which dates to 2002.  The 9/11 Commission's chairman, Tom Kean, says the pages should be made public.  Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton says he's "embarrassed" it hasn't happened already.  Both Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, refused to declassify them.  Yet word of the contents has leaked out.

Fears of Saudi royal retaliation should not deter the truth about 9/11 attacks.  The New York Times reports that Saudi Arabia, playing the role of Mafia extortionist, has threatened to "...sell off hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.  The Saudis are estimated to hold about $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the U.S. and the concern is that they might sell them before American courts could impose a freeze.  The Obama administration opposes the bill, saying it could potentially open the kingdom to lawsuits from relatives of the dead and injured.  So?

Fresh evidence links Saudi government to 9/11: Flight certificate of would-be bomber found in embassy envelope buried underground.  Fresh information allegedly connecting the government of Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terror attacks has been released.  Officials have revealed that the flight certificate of Al-Qaeda bomb maker Ghassan Al-Sharbi was discovered hidden in an envelope from the Saudi embassy in Washington when they arrested him in 2002.  Al-Sharbi is believed to have learned how to fly with the hijackers but did not take part in the attacks.  Shortly before his arrest, he buried a bundle of documents, which is believed to have included the certificate.  The cache was discovered by US authorities and details, written in a memo known as Document 17 in 2003, were released without fanfare by investigators last year.  They were only brought to the public's attention when an activist discovered them and wrote about them on his website earlier this week.

Uncovering the Hidden Truths of 9/11.  [Scroll down]  At a minimum, the FBI seems to have stonewalled efforts to look into what some of those Saudis were up to in the months before the attacks.  Yet nobody should expect Washington, DC, to come clean about this anytime soon.  Almost 15 years later, admitting that two administrations have kept important facts about 9/11 from the public would cause political trauma.  Not least because bipartisan refusal to admit the full truth about major terrorist attacks is something of a tradition in our nation's capital.  Additionally, Riyadh has reacted hysterically to recent public comments on the 28 Pages, threatening dire economic pain if Americans start asking pointed questions about any Saudi angle to the Planes Operation.  That they have something to hide is painfully obvious.

Bombshell: Here's who may have been behind the 9/11 attacks all along.  There's a pretty hot topic going about in the country and I wanted to share my perspective — and by the way, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders weren't very clear about the issue.  I'm speaking about the declassification of the 28 pages of the Congressional 9-11 report that potentially includes reference to Saudi Arabia.  In fact, as Andrew McCarthy writes for the National Review in a detailed exposé of Saudi connections to the attacks, It is long, long past time... for the United States government to come clean with the American people, and with the families of Americans slaughtered on 9/11 by 19 jihadists, 15 of them Saudis.  The government must disclose the 28 pages of the 2002 congressional report on the 9/11 attacks that it has shamefully withheld from the public for 14 years.  Those pages outline Saudi complicity in the jihad.

Saudis On The Ropes.  The role of Saudis in the 9/11 attack on the U.S. has hardly been completely hidden: 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, trained in Wahhabi schools.  More than that, there is evidence that Saudi officials in the U.S. aided and abetted them once they were here — people like Omar al-Bayoumi, who met with some of the hijackers on the very same day he met with someone (as yet not publicly identified) in the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles.  Families of those murdered on 9/11 have been trying to get redress through litigation from the Saudi royal family, Saudi banks, and Saudi charities, but have been stymied in part because of 1976 law that grants immunity to foreign nations in U.S. courts.  There's an effort in Congress to change that, to deny such immunity to nations that have been culpable for terrorist attacks, which kill Americans on American soil.

Willful Blindness and Our Saudi 'Friends'.  [Scroll down]  Since 1993, the bipartisan American ruling class, throughout administrations of both parties, has refused to acknowledge, much less grapple with, this central truth of the threat we face.  It has insisted, against fact and reason, that Islam is a monolithic "religion of peace," and therefore that there can be no causal connection between Islamic doctrine and terrorism committed by Muslims.  It has fraudulently maintained that jihadist violence is not jihadist at all — after all, we are to understand jihad (notwithstanding its roots as a belligerent concept, as holy war to establish sharia) to be a noble internal struggle to become a better person, to vanquish corruption, and the like.  Terrorist attacks must be airbrushed into "violent extremism," shorn of any ideological component — as if the killing were wanton, not purposeful.  The fact that the attacks are so ubiquitously committed by Muslims (who explicitly cite scriptural chapter and verse to justify themselves), is to be ignored — as if all religions and ideologies were equally prone to inspire mass-murder attacks if believed too fervently.

Saudi Arabia is fracturing.  Depending who you ask, this may or may not be a bad thing.  Only days before President Obama heads to Saudi Arabia, relations with that nation seem to be on the verge of breaking down substantially.  There are a few different items which have reached the boiling point just this year, and the first one is a bill currently making the rounds in Congress which would allow family members of 9/11 victims to sue the Arab nation for their (I suppose we should say "alleged") involvement in the attacks.  As you might imagine, this isn't making the Saudi royal family feel particularly warm and fuzzy, and they are now threatening to dump vast American holdings onto the market.

9/11 families furious at Obama administration for 'siding with Saudi Arabia'.  The families of 9/11 victims in the US are reportedly infuriated at the administration of President Barack Obama for 'siding with Saudi Arabia' over a congressional bill that could incriminate Saudi officials for the deadly attacks on September 11, 2001 in America.  The families of victims are making a renewed push to declassify 28 pages of a 838-page congressional report on the worst terror attack on American soil, which points the blame towards Saudi Arabia.  Until now,the Obama administration has so far refused to reveal the contents of the missing pages and looks to be leaving the decision to a Congressional vote.

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11.  In its report on the still-censored "28 pages" implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, "60 Minutes" last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been "soft-pedaled" to protect America's delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.  That's quite an understatement.  Actually, the kingdom's involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government.  And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement.  Investigations were throttled.  Co-conspirators were let off the hook.

Secret 28 Pages of 9/11 Report Under New Scrutiny.  When the president leaves for a trip to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday [4/19/2016] an unresolved issue will go with him: did the Saudis play some role in supporting the hijackers responsible for the attacks on September 11th?  The question is being raised in the wake of a renewed push to declassify 28 pages of a 838-page congressional report on the worst terror attack on American soil.  The so-called "28 pages" are locked away in a secure basement room at the Capitol and although they can be read by members of Congress, the pages remain classified.

Report: Saudis vow to sell US assets if Congress decides gov was involved in 9/11.  Saudi Arabia has reportedly told the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a bill to make the Saudi government legally responsible for any role in the 9/11 attacks.  The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation, a bipartisan Senate bill, since Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir last month told Washington lawmakers his country's position, according to The New York Times.  Al-Juberi purportedly informed the lawmakers during a trip to Washington that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell as much as $750 billion in Treasury securities and other American financial assets on the world market, fearing the legislation could become law and U.S. courts would then freeze the assets.

Pressure builds on Obama administration to declassify 9/11 report.  Pressure is building on the Obama administration to release information about the 9/11 attacks that has been kept from the public for well over a decade. [...] New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has read the 28 pages that have been locked in a vault under the Capitol for 13 years.  "I don't know how the Saudi government will react to it, but I think it's just information," said Gillibrand.  She said the 9/11 families she represents deserve to read them too — before the president travels to the Middle East next week.

28 Pages: A Full Measure special report about the 9/11 attacks.  In October of 2013, [Congressman Stephen] Lynch went to the secret room in the basement of the Capitol and began reading.  The censored material begins on page 395 under the heading, "Certain Sensitive National Security Matters."  Lynch says, "It gave names of individuals and entities that i [sic] believe were complicit in the attacks on september [sic] eleventh.  They were facilitators of those attacks and they are clearly identified.  How people were financed, where they were housed, where the money was coming from, you know the conduits that were used and the connections between some of these individuals."  Individuals, he says, who were never brought to justice.  But who are they?  And why would the U.S. government want to keep the information secret?

Iran's involvement with 9/11.  The most remarkable aspect of this US surrender to Iran is that the Iranian regime is not some hypothetical threat.  It has been perpetrating acts of war against Western interests for more than three decades — including playing a key role in the 9/11 attacks on America.  That's not just my opinion.  It's the view of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  In a judgment that has received virtually no attention, federal Judge George B. Daniels found in December 2011 that Iran, with the participation of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was directly and heavily involved in the 9/11 atrocities.

'28 pages': Sharyl Attkisson dives into still-classified 9/11 intelligence documents.  In a preview of her new Sunday morning news broadcast, five-time Emmy winner and former CBS anchor Sharyl Attkisson will delve into the top-secret pages of Congress' intelligence report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which are still kept under wraps 14 years later.  In the report, Ms. Attkisson speaks with current and former lawmakers and family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks to uncover why the documents, known as the "28 pages" are still undisclosed.

Moussaoui Calls Saudi Princes Patrons of Al Qaeda.  In highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison, a former operative for Al Qaeda has described prominent members of Saudi Arabia's royal family as major donors to the terrorist network in the late 1990s and claimed that he discussed a plan to shoot down Air Force One with a Stinger missile with a staff member at the Saudi Embassy in Washington.  The Qaeda member, Zacarias Moussaoui, wrote last year to Judge George B. Daniels of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who is presiding over a lawsuit filed against Saudi Arabia by relatives of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

CIA Declassifies Report On 9/11, Blanks Out Saudi Section.  When the 435-page report — which was finished in 2005 — was dropped on Friday evening [6/12/2015], the section titled "Issues Relating to Saudi Arabia" was mostly redacted.  Just a few sentences remain, including:  "[T]he team encountered no evidence that the Saudi Government knowingly and willingly supported al-Qa'ida terrorists."

Rand Paul Battles the GOP Over 9/11 Secrets.  Back in 2003, 46 senators signed a letter urging President George W. Bush to declassify the redacted pages in the joint congressional inquiry into 9/11.  Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, the one-time chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and an original author of the report, has said the pages "point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier" of the 9/11 attacks.  But today, more than a decade later, only a handful of Senate lawmakers are interested in pressing the issue.  Of the original 46 senators, 12 remain in the Senate.  Just two of those are publicly supportive of declassifying the 28 pages now.

What Is the Bush Family Hiding About the Saudis and 9/11?  Hard to escape the conclusion that we attacked the wrong country after 9/11, that a lot of our servicemen needlessly died, and the real enemy of America is still out there, voiding its Wahhabist poison into the moral water supply of the entire world.

Rand Paul's New Crusade: The Secret 9/11 Docs.  Senator Rand Paul, the man of the hour when it comes to pushing back against government secrecy, is throwing his weight behind a fresh push to declassify 28 pages from a 2002 Senate inquiry into the causes of 9/11.  The Kentucky Republican is sponsoring legislation called the "Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Act," which would force the release of the disputed pages. With his support, an important issue that has languished far too long may be finally gaining traction.  Paul is a big catch for the 28 pages movement, as advocates describe their effort.  Former Florida senator Bob Graham, who has been banging the drum on the classified pages for years, will appear alongside Paul at a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday morning [6/2/2015] to lend his gravitas to the occasion.

How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11.  Just 15 days before the 9/11 attacks, a well-connected Saudi family suddenly abandoned their luxury home in Sarasota, Fla., leaving behind jewelry, clothes, opulent furniture, a driveway full of cars — including a brand new Chrysler PT Cruiser — and even a refrigerator full of food.  About the only thing not left behind was a forwarding address.  The occupants simply vanished without notifying their neighbors, realtor or even mail carrier.  The 3,300-square-foot home on Escondito Circle belonged to Esam Ghazzawi, a Saudi adviser to the nephew of then-King Fahd.  But at the time, it was occupied by his daughter and son-in-law, who beat a hasty retreat back to Saudi Arabia just two weeks before the attacks after nearly a six-year stay here.

Hillary's Path to 9/11.  We will probably never know specifically what was on Hillary's email server (unless, as suggested by the Wall Street Journal, we subpoena China's military intelligence).  But if the spell is finally and definitively broken, as the willingness of less-than-right-wing pundits at the New York Times, Time magazine and others to criticize Hillary without restraint suggests it might be, then we may yet learn many things about the world in which we live that we had no idea were being suppressed out of rapturous worship, or mortal terror, of the Clintons.  We may emerge into a world of freedom and democracy that we had almost forgotten existed.

9/11 Link To Saudi Arabia Is Topic Of 28 Redacted Pages In Government Report.  Since terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, victims' loved ones, injured survivors, and members of the media have all tried without much success to discover the true nature of the relationship between the 19 hijackers — 15 of them Saudi nationals — and the Saudi Arabian government.  Many news organizations reported that some of the terrorists were linked to the Saudi royals and that they even may have received financial support from them as well as from several mysterious, moneyed Saudi men living in San Diego.  Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied any connection, and neither President George W. Bush nor President Obama has been forthcoming on this issue.

Claims Against Saudis Cast New Light on Secret Pages of 9/11 Report.  A still-classified section of the investigation by congressional intelligence committees into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has taken on an almost mythic quality over the past 13 years — 28 pages that examine crucial support given the hijackers and that by all accounts implicate prominent Saudis in financing terrorism.

Massaoui Statement Renews Suspicions of Saudi Involvement in 9/11 Attacks.  The man known as the missing "20th hijacker" in the 9/11 attacks has claimed that members of the Saudi royal family were financially supporting al-Qaeda, CNN reported.  Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty in 2005 to six terror-related charges, made the statement under oath in October at the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, where he is serving a life sentence without parole.  It was contained in a brief filed Tuesday in a civil suit against Saudi Arabia by families of the 9/11 victims.  The brief was in opposition to a motion to dismiss the case.  Moussaoui claimed that in the late 1990s Osama bin Laden put him in charge of creating a database cataloging al-Qaeda's donors and the amount they contributed, a task he said he carried out daily for two or three months.  High-profile donors included several members of Saudi Royal family, Moussaoui said, including Prince Turki al-Faisal Al Saud, former director-general of Saudi Arabia's Foreign Intelligence Service and ambassador to the United States.

Lawyers: Evidence shows Saudi Arabia aided 9/11 hijackers.  Lawyers for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia "directly and knowingly" helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker and from three principals of the U.S. government's two primary probes of the attacks.  The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington said in a statement Wednesday that Zacarias Moussaoui's claims come from a "deranged criminal" and that there is no evidence to support them.  It said Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with the deadly 2001 attacks.

Saudi Arabia: America's Frenemy.  [Scroll down]  Imagine, though, that Moussaoui is telling the truth, and that members of the Saudi "royal family" took an active role in the planning of 9/11 — something that, given the sheer size of the House of Saud, smart money would bet on.  What would we do about it? [...] Obama, of course, would do absolutely nothing (and one wonders if this was a topic of conversation during his recent visit to the sheikdom).  But the next president would have to.  Wouldn't he?

There's only one problem with this idea:  What is the value of a "pledge" from someone like Barack H. Obama?
Every Presidential Candidate Should Pledge Release of Missing 9/11 Pages.  More than 13 years have passed since al-Qaeda terrorists killed almost 3,000 Americans in al-Qaeda's single-most devastating attack. [...] And yet, so much remains inexplicably unknown about that day.  President George W. Bush redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission report.  A number of congressmen have read the redacted pages.  Thomas Massie, a Republican representing Kentucky's 4th Congressional district, said, "I had to stop every two or three pages and rearrange my perception of history."  He added, however, "There is nothing in there that would affect our national security," and suggested it was a desire not to embarrass some states that led the Bush administration to withhold the Commission's findings.

Twenty Eight Pages of Oil.  Petroleum serves as a hydraulic fluid that transmits pressure through the whole global economic system.  Without it the landing gear won't deploy and the control surfaces droop.  It's importance is underscored by the "28 missing pages" of the September 11 report which reportedly implicate Saudi Arabia in the attack. [...] The 28 pages may tell us whether Bush let the Saudis walk, and explain to what extent and why?  It may indicate why there's bipartisan support for keeping whatever's in those 28 pages under wraps.  Even whether the need to keep oil onside was responsible for America's retreat from the Middle East or Obama's bow to the Saudi King.

The Missing Pages of the 9/11 Report.  A story that might otherwise have slipped away in a morass of conspiracy theories gained new life Wednesday when former Sen. Bob Graham headlined a press conference on Capitol Hill to press for the release of 28 pages redacted from a Senate report on the 9/11 attacks.  And according to Graham, the lead author of the report, the pages "point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as the principal financier" of the 9/11 hijackers.  "This may seem stale to some but it's as current as the headlines we see today," Graham said, referring to the terrorist attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris.

Still Secret: 28 Pages That Could Change Our Understanding of 9/11.  A bipartisan group of congressmen joined with 9/11 family members today to renew efforts to declassify 28 pages of a joint congressional inquiry into the worst terrorist attack against the United States.  The information, redacted by President George W. Bush, is believed to point to allegations that Saudi Arabia may have assisted in financing the 9/11 terrorists.

Carrying His Cross to Elam.  [Scroll down]  Disgust with the thuggishness of the regime, as well as internal power struggles, have prompted a number of Iranian intelligence officers to break with their former bosses.  I have spent man-years debriefing a wide variety of such defectors, and have never ceased to be amazed at how often the U.S. intelligence community rejects their information, at times with deadly results.  So it was in July 2001 when a counter-intelligence officer known as Hamid Reza Zakeri walked into the U.S. embassy in Baku and warned the CIA of impending attacks on America that were going to be carried out using civilian airliners and Arab pilots.  Zakeri identified the targets of the attacks — the World Trade Center towers in New York, Camp David, the Pentagon and the White House in Washington, DC — and the date they were to take place.

'Saudi prince paid for 9/11 pilots to learn to fly'.  A jihadist serving life in prison on terror charges brought in the wake of 9/11 has claimed the Saudi Arabian royal family helped finance the plot.  Zacarias Moussaoui, 46, says an unnamed Saudi Prince paid for flying lessons for him and the 19 terrorists who hijacked planes in the September 11 attacks in the run-up to the atrocities.  The incredible claims were made in documents filed to a federal court in Oklahoma, in which Moussaoui says a prince 'was assisting me in my Islamic terrorist activities... and was doing so knowingly for Osama bin Laden'.

Disclosures Pried From Government Strongly Suggest Terrorist Awlaki Was an Informant.  New evidence pried from the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) proves the point I have posited here at Ordered Liberty:  The federal government willfully intervened on behalf of al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki on October 10, 2002, undoing his arrest on felony fraud charges when he was detained at JFK International Airport in New York, and allowing him to walk away with a Saudi handler.  As I argued over two years ago, the government's story to the contrary — viz., that it was moved by sheer coincidence on the eve of Awlaki's arrival to pull the plug on a weak case — does not pass the laugh test.

Inside the president's 'doomsday' planes.  [Scroll down]  US authorities rarely discuss the doomsday plane. In particular, they don't mention the fact that its distinctive form was spotted by reliable witnesses above the heavily restricted air space above the White House on the morning of September 11, 2001, around the time the twin towers were struck by hijacked planes, but before the Pentagon was hit.  Conspiracists have long seen this as evidence that the doomsday plane was in effect a command center for the 9/11 attacks, which they consider an inside job.

The Twenty-Eight Pages.  On the bottom floor of the United States Capitol's new underground visitors' center, there is a secure room where the House Intelligence Committee maintains highly classified files.  One of those files is titled "Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters."  It is twenty-eight pages long. [...] "There's nothing in it about national security," Walter Jones, a Republican congressman from North Carolina who has read the missing pages, contends.  "It's about the Bush Administration and its relationship with the Saudis."

Ron Paul Believes Bush Admin. Had Advance Knowledge of 9/11 Attacks.  What was on the 18-and-a-half minutes of tape erased by the Nixon White House?  We'll likely never know.  While theories and speculation about the content of that lost material still resonate, particularly in alcoves of the Internet, there is one contemporary puzzle that is beginning to attract the attention of lawmakers and citizens.  From the day of its release in 2002, 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001 — commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commission report — have remained classified.

28 Pages Later: Shrouding an Act of War.  American blood spilled in wars that do not attack those who attacked us on 9-11.  To put this in perspective, fewer died in Pearl Harbor and we nuked the Japanese.  We were told after 9-11, that it was al Qaeda, with no other state sponsors.  If the allegations prove accurate, 9-11 was nothing less than an act of war by Saudi Arabia.

Act of War: CIA Leak Gives "Incontrovertible Evidence" That 9/11 Was State Sponsored.  If you have ever questioned the official narrative for the September 11th attacks then you have, without a doubt, been dubbed a conspiracy nut by the establishment media and those who hang on their every word.  Like the Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination, the 9/11 Report assembled by a Congressional investigation is unraveling and being revealed for what it really is — nothing more than a cover story.  This is no longer a conspiracy theory... it's conspiracy fact.

Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup.  After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.  But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress' investigative report on 9/11 dealing with "specific sources of foreign support" for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.  It was kept secret and remains so today.  President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report.  Text isn't just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section.  The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood.

Mainstream Media Censorship Exposed.  Flagship news publications in the United States mainstream media have been forced to admit that over the years they quietly forged partnerships with the federal government in order to withhold from American taxpayers vital information on such topics as the government's drone-assassination program, torture, secret prisons and warrantless snooping.  Some of the worst cases of collusion and suppression go back 10 years to the early days of the modern "war on terror."

Chart courtesy of World Magazine.  Used with permission.

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You have to wonder... what else is not being reported?  Wait -- I'll answer that.  How about the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7?  No airplane hit that building, yet it collapsed suddenly on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.  We are apparently supposed to forget that it happened, because it hardly made a blip on the news media radar.  More information here.