CIA chief: Missing report pages exonerate Saudi Arabia in 9/11 attacks

[Suzanimal]

CIA chief John Brennan says that he believes 28 redacted pages of the 9/11 Commission report will soon be made public, and that they will prove that the government of Saudi Arabia had no involvement in the September 11 attacks.

The families of those killed in the attacks have long wanted the pages from the 2002 report -- officially titled the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 -- made public.
Fmr. 9/11 commission member: Saudi role must be probed

There had been widespread speculation that these pages concern Saudi Arabia, its wealthy citizens and the financing of terrorist operations.
But whatever was actually contained in those 28 pages was ultimately redacted from the report, and the families have been waiting 14 years to read the government's conclusions.

Brennan, in an interview with the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV network, said that the pages were part of a "preliminary" joint inquiry that was published in 2002 -- just a year after 9/11. The inquiry at the time had tried to "pull together bits and pieces of information reporting about who was responsible for 9/11."

Following this initial report, he said, the 9/11 commission "looked very thoroughly at these allegations of Saudi involvement, Saudi government involvement and... their conclusion was that there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government as an institution -- or as senior Saudi officials individually -- had supported the 9/11 attacks."

"I think it's good that (the pages) come out."

He said subsequent reviews and assessments "really have shown that it was very, very unfortunate that these attacks took place. But this was the work of al Qaeda, of Bin Laden, (current al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri), and others of that ilk."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/12/po...html?sr=cnnitw

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Oh, well, that settles that..

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[Zippyjuan]

Uncensored portions of the missing pages: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell...el03_part4.pdf

20. Finding: [Through its investigation, the Joint Inquiry developed information
suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while
they were in the United States. The Joint Inquiry’s review confirmed that the Intelligence
Community also has information, much of which has yet to be independently verified,
concerning these potential sources of support. In their testimony, neither CIA nor FBI
officials were able to address definitively the extent of such support for the hijackers
globally or within the United States or the extent to which such support, if it exists, is
knowing or inadvertent in nature. Only recently, and at least in part due to the Joint
Inquiry’s focus on this issue, did the FBI and CIA strengthen their efforts to address these
issues. In the view of the Joint Inquiry, this gap in U.S. intelligence coverage is
unacceptable, given the magnitude and immediacy of the potential risk to U.S. national
security. The Intelligence Community needs to address this area of concern as aggressively
and as quickly as possible].

Discussion: [The Joint Inquiry reviewed information in FBI and CIA documents
suggesting specific potential sources of foreign support for the September 11 hijackers. While
the Joint Inquiry uncovered this material during the course of its review of FBI and CIA
documents, it did not attempt to investigate and assess the accuracy and significance of this
information independently, recognizing that such a task would be beyond the scope of the Joint
[page 416] Inquiry. Instead, the Joint Inquiry referred a detailed compilation of information it
had uncovered in documents and interviews to the FBI and CIA for further investigation by the
Intelligence Community and, if appropriate, law enforcement agencies. A detailed summary of
the available information pertaining to this issue is included in the classified version of the Joint
Inquiry final report].

[It should be clear that this Joint Inquiry has made no final determinations as to the
reliability or sufficiency of the information regarding these issues that was found contained in
FBI and CIA documents. It was not the task of this Joint Inquiry to conduct the kind of
extensive investigation that would be required to determine the true significance of such alleged
support to the hijackers. On the one hand, it is possible that these kinds of connections could
suggest, as indicated in a CIA memorandum, “incontrovertible evidence that there is support for
these terrorists [---------------------------].” On the other hand, it is also possible that further
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investigation of these allegations could reveal legitimate, and innocent, explanations for these
associations].

[Given the serious national security implications of this information, however, the
leadership of the Joint Inquiry is referring the Joint Inquiry Staff’s compilation of relevant
information to both the FBI and the CIA for investigative review and appropriate investigative
and intelligence action].

Reportedly, followup investigations found the possible leads went nowhere and no links could be substantiated.

[Ronin Truth]

I wonder what those report edits must have cost the Saudis.