Why would the USA Govt. want to classify 9/11 evidence pointing to Saudi Arabia if they themselves were not complicit?

What de-classified information is making U.S. Congressmen to say that 9/11 attacks were carried out by direct order of Saudi king?

After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.

But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.

It was kept secret and remains so today.

President Bush inexplicably censored 28 full pages of the 800-page report. Text isn’t just blacked-out here and there in this critical-yet-missing middle section. The pages are completely blank, except for dotted lines where an estimated 7,200 words once stood (this story by comparison is about 1,000 words).

A pair of lawmakers who recently read the redacted portion say they are “absolutely shocked” at the level of foreign state involvement in the attacks.

Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) can’t reveal the nation identified by it without violating federal law. So they’ve proposed Congress pass a resolution asking President Obama to declassify the entire 2002 report, “Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.”

Some information already has leaked from the classified section, which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.

The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found “incontrovertible evidence” that Saudi government officials — not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and intelligence officers employed by the kingdom — helped the hijackers both financially and logistically. The intelligence files cited in the report directly implicate the Saudi embassy in Washington and consulate in Los Angeles in the attacks, making 9/11 not just an act of terrorism, but an act of war.

The 9/11 Commission report has kept 28 pages classified, pages which former Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla) says reveal “a larger effort to cover up Saudi activity in 9/11.”

Now the movement to declassify the pages has gained momentum, with Representative Thomas Massie

Former Senator Graham described a cover-up of Saudi involvement in 9/11 :

“The truth is, I don’t know who ultimately made the decision to classify those pages, but it was part of a larger effort to cover up Saudi activity in 9/11. And actions that were all towards that end led me to believe that it wasn’t an individual decision by the FBI or the CIA or the NSA, but that there was some federal directive to all the agencies to take those actions that would disguise Saudi activity in 9/11.”

Representative Walter Jones (R-NC) went further, saying that “it was the influence of the Bush administration to classify those pages.”

Jones described his reaction on reading the 28 pages for himself:

I was absolutely shocked by what I read. What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me. I cannot go into it any more than that. I had to sign an oath that what I read had to remain confidential. But the information I read disappointed me greatly.

President Bush had claimed that releasing the 28 pages would compromise national security.

Now, two other possible breakthroughs present themselves as opportunities for more 9/11 information. The first is that the defense of Saudi sovereign immunity has been thrown out by a federal appeals court reviewing the claims of those harmed by the 9/11 attacks.

Second, eighty thousand pages regarding a prominent Saudi Arabian family have been given to the courts via a Freedom of Information Request.

Rep. Walter Jones insists that, contrary to the Bush administration claim, the 28 pages do “not deal with national security per se; it is more about relationships.”

He further said:

The information is critical to our foreign policy moving forward and should thus be available to the American people. If the 9/11 hijackers had outside help – particularly from one or more foreign governments – the press and the public have a right to know what our government has or has not done to bring justice to the perpetrators.

Would releasing these pages violate national security as the Bush administration claimed? Or should they be released to the public?

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