Congressmen Jones and Lynch say they wrote to Obama in April 2014, asking for their release (as Obama had once promised the 9/11 families he would do. [11])
Sometime later, having received no reply, they phoned the White House and were told only that they "were working on it."[12]
This is not the first time elected representatives have tried to get their hands on the 28 pages.
Back in 2003 -- while Zelikow was directing the 9/11 Commission -- a group of 46 senators, including Democrats Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, and Joe Biden, wrote to President Bush requesting the pages from the 2002 report, but to no avail. [13]
Why, given the change to a Democratic administration in 2008, has there not been more progress?
Could it partly be that Zelikow was appointed to Obama's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board -- where he had also served under George W. Bush [14] -- in September 2011?
One thing is clear: Zelikow is never far away when the 28 pages threaten to become public.
What is Zelikow hiding?
One possibility involves a 2004 Los Angeles Times story based on interviews with "several senior members" of the 9/11 Commission, who reportedly said that the Commission had uncovered evidence that "Saudi Arabia provided funds and equipment to the Taliban and probably directly to Bin Laden."[15]
"Now," said the reporter, "the bipartisan commission is wrestling with how to characterize such politically sensitive information in its final report, and even whether to include it."[16]
The result of the Zelikow-controlled commission's "wrestling" was to say that it had "found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization."[17]
Might Zelikow want to hide this lie and the facts that this lie was meant to bury?
Given that the 9/11 wars have been the defining international tragedy of this century, the world needs to know.
References:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_9/11_Commission, as accessed January 10, 2014.
[2] Philip Shenon, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, Grand Central Publishing, 2008, p. 388-89.
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