Tag: Richard Grenell
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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. -
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 ask U.S. intelligence chief to open up records on FBI’s investigation of possible Saudi government complicity
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Family members of the murdered and two survivors of the September 11 attacks wrote to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on Wednesday asking her to make public a 16-page FBI report of its investigation of Saudi government agents in the U.S. who helped the 9/11 hijackers. -
19 years on: Extreme U.S. secrecy continues to shield Saudis who aided 9/11 al Qaeda killers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
19 years on, and we still don’t know the names of those who helped aid and finance the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed 2,977 men, women and children and injured 6,000 more. -
9/11 families tell Barr: Give us same access to records you gave to al-Qaeda defendants
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Thousands of 9/11 family members sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday demanding access to up to 25,000 pages of government documents kept from them in their lawsuit against Saudi Arabia but turned over to attorneys defending accused 9/11 terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. -
Barr, Grenell block 9/11 families access to evidence with broad, ‘unprecedented’ claims of secrecy
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Attorney General William Barr and Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly invoked the state secrets privilege this week to block 9/11 survivors and family members from obtaining crucial evidence to support their multi-billion dollar damages lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.
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