Category: FBI
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A ‘state secret’ no more: New FBI report says Saudi government officials provided support network for 9/11 hijackers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A 130-page FBI report written only last July lays out the numerous connections of U.S.-based “personnel and entities controlled by the Saudi Arabian government” to the al Qaeda terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -
Many more declassified FBI documents on 9/11 to be made public soon, as case takes yet another turn to Florida
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Justice Department has notified a federal judge in New York that within days it expects to release another 1,000 pages of declassified FBI documents about Operation Encore, the bureau’s sub rosa investigation of possible Saudi government complicity in 9/11. -
Under oath, AG Barr and other top Trump officials invoked ‘state secrets privilege’ to hide FBI 9/11 report with no state secrets
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Long before last month’s release of a 2016 FBI report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s probe into possible Saudi complicity in 9/11, top Trump administration officials swore under “penalty of perjury” that information in the report was a “state secret” whose public release was likely to cause “significant harm to the national security.” -
DOJ report that cleared Epstein’s Miami prosecutors called ‘total whitewash’
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
New information in a government report deepens the mystery of who exactly federal prosecutors protected with their 2007 sweetheart deal for sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. -
19 years on: Extreme U.S. secrecy continues to shield Saudis who aided 9/11 al Qaeda killers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
19 years on, and we still don’t know the names of those who helped aid and finance the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed 2,977 men, women and children and injured 6,000 more. -
Barr, Grenell block 9/11 families access to evidence with broad, ‘unprecedented’ claims of secrecy
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Attorney General William Barr and Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly invoked the state secrets privilege this week to block 9/11 survivors and family members from obtaining crucial evidence to support their multi-billion dollar damages lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.
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