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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 16 2016, @12:41AM
Ha, that's rich. You're deflecting rather than addressing any of the points. That's a classic disinformation tactic. Known Before Snowden: Prism's AT&T room 641A [wikipedia.org] Carnivore / Omnivore [wikipedia.org] Known Before Snowden., ECHELON / Five Eyes [wikipedia.org] Known before Snowden. Hint: The PATRIOT ACT granted RETROACTIVE immunity to telecoms for helping with vast warrantless wiretapping programs. There's plenty more where that comes from if you just do your own research. Ah, but you see, a real shill would be deflecting and denying not telling people to go digging up more data... Which are you doing and which am I doing?
Just because YOU didn't know about the programs doesn't mean they weren't known about before Snowden.