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tsai3904
04-12-2016, 07:05 PM
Bob Graham gets call from White House

Lucy Morgan
April 12, 2016

After years of pushing to gain public release of 28 secret pages of a report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham said he got a call from the White House on Tuesday.

Graham told the Tampa Bay Times that Brett Holmgren, a senior policy adviser to the assistant to the president for Homeland Security, told him the declassification review of the documents withheld from a report issued by a Joint Congressional Commission in 2003 will soon be completed.

Graham, who asked the president to declassify the records more than two years ago, said he asked how soon he could expect a decision and was told “one or two months.” Graham was co-chairman of a joint congressional committee that investigated the attacks.

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More:
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/bob-graham-gets-call-from-white-house-and-word-that-declassification-of/2272945

H.Res.14 cosponsors (41):


Rep Amash, Justin [MI-3] - 12/10/2015
Rep Capuano, Michael E. [MA-7] - 2/5/2015
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 12/10/2015
Rep Coffman, Mike [CO-6] - 2/3/2016
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-13] - 1/21/2015
Rep DesJarlais, Scott [TN-4] - 2/1/2016
Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-35] - 2/11/2015
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 2/12/2015
Rep Gabbard, Tulsi [HI-2] - 2/1/2016
Rep Gibson, Christopher P. [NY-19] - 2/1/2016
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] - 12/18/2015
Rep Graham, Gwen [FL-2] - 4/30/2015
Rep Grayson, Alan [FL-9] - 1/21/2015
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-20] - 12/9/2015
Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-17] - 12/9/2015
Rep Jeffries, Hakeem S. [NY-8] - 1/8/2016
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] (introduced 1/6/2015)
Rep Lieu, Ted [CA-33] - 2/9/2016
Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-19] - 6/9/2015
Rep Lowenthal, Alan S. [CA-47] - 1/8/2016
Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY] - 3/16/2015
Rep Lynch, Stephen F. [MA-8] - 1/6/2015
Rep Massie, Thomas [KY-4] - 1/6/2015
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-2] - 12/10/2015
Rep McNerney, Jerry [CA-9] - 1/8/2016
Rep Mulvaney, Mick [SC-5] - 1/6/2016
Rep Nolan, Richard M. [MN-8] - 9/10/2015
Rep O'Rourke, Beto [TX-16] - 6/9/2015
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] - 2/11/2015
Rep Pocan, Mark [WI-2] - 1/21/2015
Rep Posey, Bill [FL-8] - 2/13/2015
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-13] - 1/8/2016
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-48] - 10/27/2015
Rep Sanford, Mark [SC-1] - 2/11/2015
Rep Scott, Austin [GA-8] - 12/15/2015
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2] - 12/17/2015
Rep Titus, Dina [NV-1] - 1/8/2016
Rep Trott, David A. [MI-11] - 1/8/2016
Rep Walz, Timothy J. [MN-1] - 2/1/2016
Rep Welch, Peter [VT] - 2/12/2015
Rep Yarmuth, John A. [KY-3] - 6/15/2015
Rep Yoho, Ted S. [FL-3] - 2/13/2015

S.1471 cosponsors (2):


Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] - 6/1/2015
Sen Paul, Rand [KY] (introduced 6/1/2015)
Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] - 6/1/2015

charrob
04-12-2016, 08:09 PM
It seems like a real coincidence that all this is coming out 10 days before Obama is scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia. I'm wondering if he will use this as some kind of leverage with the Saudis?

TheTexan
04-12-2016, 08:13 PM
There is no reason why they would declassify these pages.

Only like 3 people even care.

specsaregood
04-12-2016, 08:18 PM
It seems like a real coincidence that all this is coming out 10 days before Obama is scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia. I'm wondering if he will use this as some kind of leverage with the Saudis?

Leverage as in, "here is my numbered bank account, I'll be expecting a very large deposit in it within the next 2 months."

Ronin Truth
04-13-2016, 06:21 AM
Right! And Guantanamo is going to be closed on day one. :p :rolleyes:

luctor-et-emergo
04-13-2016, 06:53 AM
I'm wondering if he will use this as some kind of leverage with the Saudis?

Of course. It's (geo)politics. Diplomacy is full of implicit threats.

jmdrake
04-13-2016, 07:06 AM
Edward Snowden and/or Julian Assage would have taken care of this a long time ago. Just saying.

Ronin Truth
04-13-2016, 07:55 AM
There is no reason why they would declassify these pages.

Only like 3 people even care.

Count them again, there are millions.

jbauer
04-13-2016, 09:38 AM
Leverage as in, "here is my numbered bank account, I'll be expecting a very large deposit in it within the next 2 months."

Nahh, we'll take it in oil. Even if the Saudi's hands are stained red in blood we'll still import their oil and run cover for them. Its a sick world

presence
04-13-2016, 09:55 AM
somebody should set up a gambling site for the percent redacted when they do "declassify"

jllundqu
04-13-2016, 09:58 AM
Fools Errand...

Anyone who thinks they will ever see those 28 pages are full of it. Even if they 'release' them... it won't be the actual 28 pages that implicate house of Saud