Tag: William Barr
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Saudi Arabia: Our ally or our ‘perfidious ally’? Calls for a new 9/11 investigation to find out
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The 9/11 Commission, whose job was to provide the American public with “a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks,” went out of business nearly two decades ago, on Aug. 21, 2004. Since then, the public has learned much more about what happened. -
Pensacola lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for deadly terrorist attack should be tossed, U.S. magistrate says
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The families of three murdered U.S. Navy servicemen and eight others wounded when a Saudi Air Force officer with “significant ties to al-Qaeda” opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 cannot sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages, a federal magistrate ruled Thursday. -
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. -
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. -
Answers begin to emerge about secret FBI probe of Saudi government complicity in 9/11
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Piece by piece, the puzzle of the heavily censored FBI 2012 Summary Report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s once-hush-hush probe of Saudi government involvement in 9/11, appears to be giving up its secrets.
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