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by Keith_McClary » Mon 08 Jun 2015, 22:44:37
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', ' ')There's nothing new to offer and nobody's changing anyone's minds on that issue. So Keith and company, if you want to just piss into the wind, go right ahead. It won't accomplish anything.
Wouldn't want you to have to do any rethinking or learn a new "one true version" of history.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')homas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, said of reading the chapter:
“I had to stop every couple of pages ... to rearrange my understanding of history. It challenges you to rethink everything.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wo ... 7384448282 $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')S President Barack Obama is facing fresh challenges to reveal some 28 redacted pages of a top Senate report of 9/11, reports the daily Telegraph.
It is alleged that the report, issued after the 9/11 showed Saudi Arabia was the principal financier of the attack.
Former senator of Florida Bob Graham who chaired the Senate Intelligence committee said Saudi was the principle financier of the attack.
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The daily telegraph reports that the pages specifying Saudi involvement were removed and confiscated after orders were issued from George W. Bush, the then President of the US.
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“Information revealed over the years does raise questions about Saudi Arabia’s support, or whether their support might have been supportive to these Al Qaeda terrorists,” Paul said at the press conference in Washington this week.
“We cannot let page after page of blanked-out documents be obscured behind a veil, leading these families to wonder if there is additional information surrounding these horrible acts,” he added.
It is alleged that 15 of the 19 attackers were from Saudi; however this issue always remained in hibernation during the investigations following the attack, as no link could be established between the country and the attack.
It is also debated that both Obama and Bush, in their presidential terms has covered up the Saudi involvement to preserve the sweetness of US-Saudi diplomatic relations.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/obama ... port-93976 $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')emocrats also spoke on behalf of the bill. Representative Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts said it was important “to hold accountable those who aided and abetted these savage attacks on our homeland”. Lynch went on to emphasize “this wasn’t a mere deletion of a few words but a full-fledged blackout of 28 pages of the report”.
It “may have been a matter of national security to secure pages in 2002 but it is long since time that we made these reports public”, he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... 911-report