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9/11 Commission Member: Saudi Officials Supported Hijackers

posted by martyb on Sunday May 15 2016, @01:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the let-the-conspiracy-theories-begin dept.

takyon writes:

A member of the 9/11 commission has broken his silence about some of the unreleased findings:

A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission's leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @02:47AM (#346256)

    Actually, I'm surprised that they didn't identify some more senior members of the government, possibly even some of their princes.

    Just being a prince doesn't make you government employee. It just means you get an allowance.

    There are roughly 15,000 princes and princesses. [economist.com] The house of saud is gynormous.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday May 15 2016, @03:44AM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday May 15 2016, @03:44AM (#346269) Journal

    But there are thousands of government employees. What is the chance that one or more of them were sympathizers? I'd say it was pretty good. The royal family isn't universally popular.

    So given that there are probably a few disaffected among the government employees, I can easily see that there might be support members among this group that were assisting in message passing, passports, etc.

    But nothing that Lehman has said constitutes any proof of anything. Why is he asking for the declassification of these 28 pages? If he knows something, he can say something. Its not like anyone would arrest him and send him to prison if he leaked them, or his recollection of them.

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    • (Score: 2) by https on Thursday May 19 2016, @10:39PM

      by https (5248) on Thursday May 19 2016, @10:39PM (#348534) Journal

      Prison, no, but brake lines do fail once in a while, don't they?

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