[h=1]President Obama says he has a 'sense' of what is in the 28 secret 9/11 documents which are suspected of showing Saudi involvement in the attack... but avoids backing bid to publish them[/h]
9/11 survivors and victims families are pushing the government to declassify 28 documents from the congressional report on the terror attack
In an interview with Charlie Rose, President Obama said he has a 'sense' of what is in the papers, but failed to go into detail
It is speculated that the papers may reveal a possible Saudi role in the attack, which resulted in nearly 3,000 fatalities
President Obama says his director of National Security is currently reviewing the papers to see if they are safe to declassify
By ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 08:21, 19 April 2016 | UPDATED: 16:04, 19 April 2016 Barack Obama says the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is reviewing classified material in a 9/11 report that families of attack victims and some lawmakers are demanding be made public.
Several members of the House and Senate, including House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, have joined 9/11 families in pressuring for declassification of 28 pages that are part of government documents compiled on the attack amid speculation of a possible role by Saudi Arabia.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.
President Barack Obama said that he has a 'sense of what's in' the 28 pages from the 9/11 congressional report that have yet to be released
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In an interview with Charlie Rose, President Obama said his director of National Intelligence is nearly done reviewing the pages to see whether they are safe to declassify
. In an interview with CBS's Charlie Rose, Obama was asked if had read the 28 pages. 'I have a sense of what's in there,' he replied. Obama revealed that James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, 'has been going through this' to ensure that whatever is made public does not damage U.S. national security interests. 'My understanding is that he's about to complete that process,' the president said. Former U.S. Sen. Robert Graham, who helped write the report that includes the 28 redacted pages, recently told CBS's '60 Minutes' the secret material could reveal possible Saudi backing for the men who hijacked airplanes, flying two into the World Trade Center in New York and another into the Pentagon. A third hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania, when the crew and passengers revolted.
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Redacted: It is alleged that the 28 pages may point to Saudi Arabian support for the terrorist attack
Graham, a Democrat, declined to cite any details on the portion of the report that remains classified. Obama also voiced concerns about a legislative move to allow victim families to bring lawsuits against other countries believed to have provided support for attacks.
'This is a matter of how generally the United States approaches our interactions with other countries,' he said. 'If we open up the possibility that individuals and the United States can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries.' Material from the interview was to be broadcast on 'CBS This Morning' and PBS, as well as 'CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.' Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, said he believes the pages should be released. 'I think I know what it's going to say,' Mr Trump said on Fox & Friends. 'It's going to be very, very profound, having to do with Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia's role on the World Trade Center, and the attack.'
[h=1]'Very serious stuff': Trump wants 28 classified pages from 9/11 report released as he predicts they will focus on 'Saudi Arabia's role' in the terror attacks[/h]
Donald Trump told 'Fox & Friends' that 28 classified pages in the 9/11 Commission's final report should have been released 'long ago'
The section reportedly covers Saudi Arabia's contact with the terror hijackers and may include clues about financial support
Trump has criticized President George W. Bush for invading Iraq in the wake of the attacks, saying it destabilized the Middle East
'It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center,' Trump said in February. 'We went after Iraq, we decimated the country – Iran’s taking over, okay?'
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By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 14:11, 19 April 2016 | UPDATED: 15:24, 19 April 2016 Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believes 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission's report on the 2001 terror attacks should be released to the public, adding fuel to an already red-hot debate over what might be buried in the document's secret sections.
'I think we should have seen it a long time ago,' the Republican presidential front-runner said on 'Fox & Friends.'
Trump has long been in the corner of transparency advocates who have argued for the federal government to declassify the pages, which are rumored to contain smoking-gun evidence of complicity on the part of Saudi Arabia.
'I think I know what it's going to say,' Trump said Tuesday as voters headed to the polls in his home state of New York. 'It's going to be very, very profound, having to do with Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia's role on the World Trade Center, and the attack.'
OPEN THE BOOKS: Donald Trump wants the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission's final report unsealed and released to the public
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'VERY SERIOUS STUFF': The Republican presidential front-runner believes the U.S. government knows Saudi Arabian officials had a hand in planning or financing the deadly 2001 terror attacks
Trump has long been critical of President George W. Bush's post-9/11 invasion of Iraq, and suggested the report's 28 classified pages could ultimately prove the second Iraq War was a red-herring military operation. 'That's very serious stuff,' Trump told Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade. 'And you know, I've said it for a long time. We attacked Iraq. And frankly by attacking Iraq – they were not the ones who knocked down the World Trade Center.' 'Now I've been saying that for a long time. Let's see what the papers say. ... I think they're going to be finally, at least in some form, released.' Pointing to the possibility that the Saudi royal family may have financially or logistically helped the 9/11 hijackers, Trump said: 'You know, It's sort of nice to know who your friends are, and perhaps who your enemies are.' 'But you're going to see some very revealing things released in those papers and I look forward to reading them.' During a February campaign rally in Bluffton, South Carolina, Trump said using 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq ultimately destabilized the Middle East and gave Iran and its proxies an opening to seize the country's oil fields when the Obama administration withdrew American troops later.
