Tag: 9/11
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FBI sought to question two Saudi princes about unknown man accompanying two 9/11 hijackers in still secret LAX airport video
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Newly declassified FBI documents show that agents pushed hard to interview a pair of Saudi princes who they believed might help identify an unknown man captured on airport surveillance video accompanying two future 9/11 hijackers. -
Declassified FBI records connect the dots about Saudi government involvement in 9/11 plot
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
FBI records about Operation Encore ordered declassified by President Biden have yielded significant new information about a trio of Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs officials operating inside the U.S. who agents concluded worked to support al Qaeda and advance the 9/11 plot. -
9/11 leak motive: Saudi diplomat who FBI report says sought to aid hijackers had child porn on his computer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A New York federal magistrate’s hunt for the leaker of a 610-page deposition transcript of a Saudi diplomat wrapped up Tuesday after two testy days of an unusual trial in which lawyers for the Saudi government grilled their opponent lawyers for the 9/11 families on the witness stand. -
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.” -
9/11 Families’ lawyer to Judge Netburn: Encore document shows ‘a cancer’ within Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE – Sept. 18 – Agreeing with arguments made by lawyers for the 9/11 Families, a federal magistrate has extended until April 1 the deadline for filing expert reports. The delay will allow time for experts for both sides to digest a mountain of potential evidence about possible Saudi Arabian complicity in the 2001 terrorist attacks that the FBI and other government agencies are expected to declassify and make public through March under the terms of President Biden’s recent executive order. -
FBI declassifies and releases long-sought Operation Encore document about probe of possible Saudi government 9/11 complicity
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI, complying with President Biden’s recent executive order, made public late Saturday night a previously classified April 4, 2016 “review and analysis” report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s highly sensitive investigation of possible Saudi complicity in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
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