The now infamous "28-Pages" is well known to most everyone – for those that forget, the final chapter of a Congressional investigative report was classified and left out of the documents handed over to the 9/11 commission, who ultimately produced the final report. What's also well known is the fact that upon hearing that the US was opening back up this can of worms, the Saudis threatened to sell $750 billion worth of treasuries and other US assets.
Since those events, the US Senate has passed legislation that would allow 9/11 victims or surviving family members to sue Saudi Arabia, and numerous people have speculated on whether or not the 28-pages would be declassified and released for public consumption. Most recently, perhaps the most prominent figure to discuss the release of the 28-pages is none other than CIA Director John Brennan. One would imagine that Brennan would be in the know regarding the contents of those pages, and as Reuters reports, Brennan said on Sunday that he expects the pages will be released. Furthermore, Brennan said that people shouldn't take them as evidence of Saudi Arabia being complicit in the attacks.
From Al Arabiya
These so called 28 pages that were part of the joint inquiry that was published in 2002. Just a year after 9/11, was a very preliminary review trying to pull together bits and pieces of information reporting who was responsible for 9/11. Subsequently, the 9/11 commission looked very thoroughly at these allegations of Saudi involvement, Saudi government involvement and their finding, their conclusion was that there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government as an institution or Saudi, senior Saudi officials individually had supported the 9/11 attacks. So these 28 pages I believe are going to come out and I think it’s good that they come out. People shouldn’t take them as evidence of Saudi complicity in the attacks. Indeed subsequently the assessments that have been done have shown it was very unfortunate that these attacks took place but this was the work of al-Qaeda, al-Zawahiri, and others of that ilk.
According to Reuters, former US Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the congressional inquiry into the attacks and is a strong advocate of the release of the papers, said that the White House will likely make a decision by June on whether or not it woiuld release the classified documents.
Whether or not Brennan was being sincere or whether this was a well timed interview that said the right things remains to be seen. However, it would be a significant step in the right direction to have the public actually be able to read and decipher the truth for themselves for once instead of the government dictating what the public can or can't handle like small children.
Also, Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) has a different take on the 28-pages than Brennan, although he too wants the public to be able to read the documents for themselves.
CIA director must be referring to different 28 pages than ones I read. Release them and let American people decide. https://t.co/zdQwANuHGO
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 12, 2016
And one more thing – if it's all so harmless, why did the Saudis kick up an international storm over it?
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