Here is what has come to the surface. Its so damming of hussein and of course rubs off on poor hillary clink his big supporter. she actually looks to be trying to distance herself from obummer these days - wont help though.
In its report on
the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60
Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been
“soft-pedaled” to protect America’s delicate alliance with the oil-rich
kingdom.
That’s quite an
understatement.
Actually, the
kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our
government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report
in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled.
Co-conspirators were let off the hook.
Case agents I’ve
interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Washington and San Diego, the
forward operating base for some of the Saudi hijackers, as well as detectives
at the Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department who also investigated several
9/11 leads, say virtually every road led back to the Saudi Embassy in
Washington, as well as the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles.
Yet time and time
again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was
“diplomatic immunity.” (America' muslim president covered it up. But of course the truth will out. When T*rum*p becomes POTUS it is going to curl some folks hair and I think poor ou maaaaie will be forever lost to us under and galaxy of EGG!)
Those sources say
the pages missing from the 9/11 congressional inquiry report — which comprise
the entire final chapter dealing with “foreign support for the September 11
hijackers” — details “incontrovertible evidence” gathered from both CIA and FBI
case files of official Saudi assistance for at least two of the Saudi hijackers
who settled in San Diego.
Some information
has leaked from the redacted section, including a flurry of pre-9/11 phone
calls between one of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego and the Saudi
Embassy, and the transfer of some $130,000 from then-Saudi Ambassador Prince
Bandar’s family checking account to yet another of the hijackers’ Saudi
handlers in San Diego.
Modal TriggerPrince BandarPhoto: Reuters
An investigator who
worked with the JTTF in Washington complained that instead of investigating
Bandar, the US government protected him — literally. He said the State
Department assigned a security detail to help guard Bandar not only at the
embassy, but also at his McLean, Va., mansion.
The source added
that the task force wanted to jail a number of embassy employees, “but the
embassy complained to the US attorney” and their diplomatic visas were revoked
as a compromise.
Former FBI agent
John Guandolo, who worked 9/11 and related al Qaeda cases out of the bureau’s
Washington field office, says Bandar should have been a key suspect in the 9/11
probe.
“The Saudi
ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party,” Guandolo
said. “He should be treated as a terrorist suspect, as should other members of
the Saudi elite class who the US government knows are currently funding the
global jihad.”
But Bandar held
sway over the FBI.
After he met on
Sept. 13, 2001, with President Bush in the White House, where the two old
family friends shared cigars on the Truman Balcony, the FBI evacuated dozens of
Saudi officials from multiple cities, including at least one Osama bin Laden
family member on the terror watch list. Instead of interrogating the Saudis,
FBI agents acted as security escorts for them, even though it was known at the
time that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.
“The FBI was
thwarted from interviewing the Saudis we wanted to interview by the White
House,” said former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was involved in the
investigation of al Qaeda and the hijackers. The White House “let them off the
hook.”
What’s more,
Rossini said the bureau was told no subpoenas could be served to produce
evidence tying departing Saudi suspects to 9/11. The FBI, in turn, iced local
investigations that led back to the Saudis.
“The FBI covered
their ears every time we mentioned the Saudis,” said former Fairfax County
Police Lt. Roger Kelly. “It was too political to touch.”
Added Kelly, who
headed the National Capital Regional Intelligence Center: “You could
investigate the Saudis alone, but the Saudis were ‘hands-off.’ ”
Modal TriggerPhoto: AP
Even Anwar
al-Awlaki, the hijackers’ spiritual adviser, escaped our grasp. In 2002, the
Saudi-sponsored cleric was detained at JFK on passport fraud charges only to be
released into the custody of a “Saudi representative.”
It wasn’t until
2011 that Awlaki was brought to justice — by way of a CIA drone strike.
Strangely, “The
9/11 Commission Report,” which followed the congressional inquiry, never cites
the catch-and-release of Awlaki, and it mentions Bandar only in passing, his
named buried in footnotes.
Two commission
lawyers investigating the Saudi support network for the hijackers complained
their boss, executive director Philip Zelikow, blocked them from issuing
subpoenas and conducting interviews of Saudi suspects.
9/11 Commission
member John Lehman was interested in the hijackers’ connections to Bandar, his
wife and the Islamic affairs office at the embassy. But every time he tried to
get information on that front, he was stonewalled by the White House.
“They were refusing
to declassify anything having to do with Saudi Arabia,” Lehman was quoted as
saying in the book, “The Commission.”
Did the US scuttle
the investigation into foreign sponsorship of 9/11 to protect Bandar and other
Saudi elite?
“Things that should
have been done at the time were not done,” said Rep. Walter Jones, the North
Carolina Republican who’s introduced a bill demanding Obama release the 28
pages. “I’m trying to give you an answer without being too explicit.”
A Saudi reformer
with direct knowledge of embassy involvement is more forthcoming.
“We made an ally of
a regime that helped sponsor the attacks,” said Ali al-Ahmed of the
Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs. “I mean, let’s face it.”
Paul Sperry is a former Hoover
Institution media fellow and author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have
Penetrated Washington.”