The previous administration also kissed the Saudi ass ... we should have gotten off of oil 40 years ago!!!
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Never happen as long as Obama continues to kowtow to Saudis and other > Muslims. > > > > B > > > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/11/obama-under-pressure-to-declassify-the-9-11-report-s-secret-28-pages.html > > > > New Push > > 04.11.16 2:00 AM ET > > Obama Under Pressure to Declassify the 9/11 Report’s Secret 28 Pages > > Ten days before Obama heads to Saudi Arabia, a new report explores the > making of the 28 pages that reveal Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers—and > shows why they should be made public. > > One of the ongoing mysteries in Washington is why the Obama administration > is still classifying 28 pages of a congressional report > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/01/12/the-missing-pages-of-the-9-11-report.html> > written in 2003 that documents Saudi support for the hijackers who carried > out the 9/11 attacks. > > The bipartisan co-authors of that report have long called for its release > to the public, and President Obama on two separate occasions over the last > several years promised the 9/11 families that he would declassify the 28 > pages. > > Now pressure on Obama to make good on his promise is mounting. Advocates > claim there is no longer any reason to protect the Saudis 15 years after > the attacks. Government insiders argue there’s nothing in the 28 pages that > they don’t already know, and making them public will only roil an important > strategic relationship at a time when it’s already under significant > strain > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/01/02/saudi-arabia-s-isis-like-justice.html> > . > > Into this volatile mix marches *60 Minutes*, the venerable CBS News show, > with a hard-hitting report Sunday on the making of those 28 pages, and a > renewed push by those with the most direct knowledge of what they contain > to finally make them public. As the* 60 Minutes* segment points out, > Obama is traveling to Saudi Arabia in 10 days, a trip that comes in the > midst of his administration’s review of whether to go ahead with the > de-classification. > > Former Florida senator Bob Graham chaired the Senate Intelligence > Committee and co-chaired the joint congressional committee that looked into > the attacks. He told *60 Minutes* correspondent Steve Kroft, “I think it > is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak > English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of > whom didn’t have a high school education, could’ve carried out such a > complicated task without some support from within the United States.” > > An exchange between Kroft and Graham goes to the heart of the dispute. > “You believe that support came from Saudi Arabia?” Kroft asks. > “Substantially,” Graham replies. “And when we say, ‘The Saudis,’ you mean > the government…rich people in the country? Charities?” > > “All of the above,” Graham replies. > > It has long been the Saudi position that support for the hijackers did not > come from the government, and the congressional report contained a line > that seemed to exonerate the government. “It’s not an exoneration,” says > former senator Bob Kerrey, a member of the 9/11 Commission who has filed an > affidavit in support of a lawsuit brought by the 9/11 families seeking > redress from the Saudi government for the loss of their loved ones. > > The families don’t want another 9/11 anniversary to pass without fully > understanding the complicity that led to the attacks. By turning its media > megaphone on the impasse, *60 Minutes* showed viewers the extraordinary > range of high profile former officials on both sides of the political aisle > who wish to see this matter resolved. Porter Goss, who co-chaired the > congressional inquiry with Graham and then became CIA director under > President Bush, recounted asking then FBI Director Robert Mueller why the > 28 pages were classified and basically being told, “Because we said so.” > > Withholding them during the Bush years made a certain amount of sense > because the attacks were still so fresh, and the Bush family had > long-standing close ties with the Saudi royal family. Making those pages > public would be embarrassing. Obama has more freedom to make a decision > based on national security considerations, but he may be reluctant to > strain > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/01/28/why-we-re-stuck-with-saudi-arabia.html> > U.S. ties with the kingdom further. > > Former Democratic congressman Tim Roemer, who was a member of the joint > committee, says the 28 pages contains information that will surprise > people, including, he suggests, leads that were not sufficiently pursued. > He mentions an imam at a San Diego mosque, Anwar al-Awlaki, who years later > would be taken out by a U.S. drone in Yemen. “Those are a lot of > coincidences, and that’s a lot of smoke. Is that enough to make you squirm > and uncomfortable, and dig harder—and declassify these 28 pages? > Absolutely,” he said. > > *60 Minutes* opened its report with an image of a locked door on Capitol > Hill, behind which the 28 pages are kept under top security. Members of > Congress can go and read the pages, but they cannot take notes or bring > along a staff member. A relatively small percentage of lawmakers have > availed themselves of the opportunity. A bipartisan effort led by > Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina and Democrat Stephen Lynch of > Massachusetts is urging members to read the pages, and once they’ve done > that, to sign on to a resolution > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/06/02/rand-paul-s-new-crusade-the-secret-9-11-docs.html> > calling for their declassification. > > John Lehman, secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and > another member of the 9/11 Commission, told *60 Minutes*: “We’re not a > bunch of rubes that rode into Washington for this commission…We’ve seen > fire and we’ve seen rain and the politics of national security. We all have > dealt for our careers in highly classified and compartmentalized in every > aspect of security. We know when something shouldn’t be declassified. And > this, those 28 pages in no way fall into that category.” > > There are real-life implications for the 9/11 families in these 28 pages > and their potential impact on a lawsuit being heard in New York. The U.S. > government holds the position that a sovereign government cannot be sued, > and that has so far shielded the Saudi government. Lehman told *60 > Minutes* that he has no doubt some high Saudi officials knew assistance > was being provided to al Qaeda, but he doesn’t think it was ever official > policy. He also doesn’t think it absolves the Saudis of responsibility, > Kroft said in his commentary. > > “It was no accident that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. They all went > to Saudi schools. They learned from the time they were first able to go to > school—of this intolerant brand of Islam,” Lehman said, referring to the > ultra-conservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism. After oil, Kroft says, > Wahhabism is one of the kingdom’s biggest exports. Saudi clerics have > billions of dollars to spread the faith, and the mosques and religious > schools that the Saudi government builds all over the world are recruiting > grounds for violent extremists. > > It’s long past time that someone blew the whistle on what the Saudis are > doing in perpetrating extremism > <http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/01/05/how-the-saudis-churn-out-jihad-inc.html>. > There are no secrets here. It’s what everyone knows is going on but few > dare to disrupt. Shining a light on this long-standing protection racket > could make some people squirm. 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