Patrick GoodenoughCNS News
April 20, 2016
April 20, 2016
Amid stepped-up efforts to get the administration to declassify documents that could highlight links between prominent Saudis and 9/11, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday debating the question of who was responsible for the 2001 terror attacks was “a fool’s errand.”
On the eve of a visit to Saudi Arabia by President Obama, Kirby was asked whether the administration believes current or former Saudi officials or royal family members were in any way involved with the attack.
“Look, I’m not going to re-litigate history here,” he said. “You can go online and see the story of the attacks and how it happened and who was responsible, and I’m not going to re-litigate it here.”
“As it says in the [9/11 Commission ] report, there’s no indication that Saudi officials or the Saudi government was behind or supporting in any way those attacks,” Kirby continued. “It’s all there, the public record is all there for you to see, and I’m certainly not going to re-litigate that history here today.”
A reporter pointed out that the public record does not include 28 pages redacted from a report issued two years before the 9/11 Commission’s – a 2002 joint House and Senate report entitled “Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the [9/11] Terror Attacks.”
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