U.S. Still Keeping Many 9/11 Records Secret
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President George W. Bush kept many records secret, and that continues under President Obama.
The Justice Department’s assertion of privacy rights for bin Laden is a small rock in the wall of official secrecy that continues to hide 9/11 documents held by the FBI, CIA and other government entities on the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Lately, the public focus has been on the 28 blanked-out pages in Congress’s 2002 Joint Inquiry into the attacks regarding “foreign support for the hijackers” — read Saudi Arabia. The pages, withheld by then-President George W. Bush and kept hidden by President Barack Obama, have been the subject of recent stories in The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications. On Capitol Hill, pending bills in the House and Senate seek to open those pages to the public.
Yet hundreds, likely thousands, of significant records about what the 9/11 Commission called “a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States” remain off limits in whole or significant part. The result: an incomplete public understanding of events behind the attacks, and a denial of evidence to 9/11 victims still seeking a measure of justice in the courts.
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