Buried in the bowels of the United States Capital new underground visitor center are 28 pages from the 2002 Joint Congressional Inquiry on 911 redacted because of what they prove about Saudi financing of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3000 Americans.
Bush claimed at the time the publication of these pages would damage US intelligence operations; yet elected officials who have read the pages say otherwise:
"'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.'
"Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat, told me that the document is 'stunning in its clarity,' and that it offers direct evidence of complicity on the part of certain Saudi individuals and entities in Al Qaeda’s attack on America. 'Those twenty-eight pages tell a story that has been completely removed from the 9/11 Report,' Lynch maintains..."
"Now, in a rare example of bipartisanship, Jones and Lynch have co-sponsored a resolution requesting that the Obama Administration declassify the pages.
Other lawmakers reveal how reading the redacted pages have caused them to reassess their responses to contemporary threats coming from the Middle East:
"Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky and a sponsor of the House resolution to declassify the material, told me that the experience of reading those twenty-eight pages caused him to rethink how to handle the rise of ISIS.
"It has made him much more cautious about a military response. 'We have to be careful, when we run the calculations of action, what the repercussions will be,' he said.
“'In some ways, it’s more dangerous today,' Timothy Roemer, who was a member of both the Joint Inquiry and the 9/11 Commission, observed. 'A more complex series of threats are...'"
A Void in the History of September 11th
