Bob Menendez, Democratic Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced a cross-party plan that would require US intelligence officials to investigate and disclose classified documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11.
According to him, the bill obliges the director of the National Intelligence Agency, the attorney general and the director of the CIA to conduct a thorough investigation into all the confidential documents related to 9/11 and as soon as possible if they can not declassify some documents; They should explain this to Congress so that the legislature is at least aware of the existence of such evidence.
The project, which is supported by the families of 9/11 victims; With the participation of Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic representative of the state of Connecticut, it was donated and is known as the “September 11 Transparency Law”.
Twenty years after 9/11, a lawsuit accusing Saudi Arabia of complicity in the attacks has finally come to fruition; But large numbers of documents remain sealed, and the United States refuses to provide them on the pretext that they contain sensitive information; The soldier dies.
This information gap has disgusted families who have been trying for years to file a lawsuit against the Saudi government for facilitating the attacks. Previous investigations have revealed details of links between Saudi nationals and some hijackers, but did not indicate that the Riyadh government was directly involved in the incident.
In 2016, the final chapter of the congressional report on these attacks was declassified. The documents listed the names of people who knew the hijackers and who helped them rent apartments and open bank accounts after they arrived in the United States. According to the report, some of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were linked to and extorted money from individuals who may have been linked to the Saudi government. According to the document, information from FBI sources indicates that at least two of the individuals who assisted the attackers may have been Saudi intelligence officers. But the report did not conclude that Riyadh was complicit.
The families of 9/11 victims believe that the whole story has not been revealed because the US government is reluctant to respond comprehensively. Any new information that is released is politically controversial, and this is due to Saudi Arabia’s role as a US partner in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa).
