Bob Graham, March 21: "There's no question that the Bush administration covered up for the Saudis." [View all]

[johnnyreb]

Demand your representatives to go READ The 28 Pages.

Transcript excerpts and bold emphasis are mine.

We Were Lied To About 9/11 - Episode 23 - Senator Bob Graham
Published on Mar 21, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS4k7qquJ_I


Graham at 20:15: There was no question vice-president Cheney was closely monitoring what we were doing, and was not happy that we were having the Inquiry at all. And he did at one point ah, (over an issue similar to the one that you just discussed I'm not certain that it was precisely that) indicate his disapproval of what was going on, and that if that continued, that the administration might stop its assistance to the Inquiry. We did not change our actions or our plan of inquiry. The administration was frankly "off and on" in terms of its level of support, there were some areas where it was forthcoming, there were other areas ah where it was ah, very (closed (?)). And the facts that The 28 Pages were censured is an example of that non-cooperation.

Graham at 30:55 (re those who coverup): Whether they are criminally responsible or not I will leave to others, but I will state based on what I know, that they have dis-served the United States, by denying us the American People the ability to understand, and therefore fully participate in decisions evolving out of 9/11. They have denied the families of those almost-3000 Americans who were killed on September the 11th, the ability to receive any compensation from co-conspirators. AND, the American national security has been weakened by the failure to let the American People and the world know what Saudi Arabia did around 9/11 and subsequent to 9/11.

Graham at 32:42: The attention recently has been on The 28 Pages, they are very dramatic, tangible and uh, how some 13 years in which they have been withheld is a particularly egregious act. But The 28 Pages are by no means the totality of instances in which Saudi Arabian actions have been covered up by US officials.

Graham at 36:00: (re the Sarasota family) .... the FBI has gone to extreme lengths to conceal what they should have learned about the relationship between the hijackers and the prominent family. The FBI initially said they have no information about that case, but in a FOIA hearing before a federal judge, they finally admitted much later that they have over 80,000 pages of materials relating to the Sarasota investigation; which the judge demanded brought to his office and for the last several months he has been reviewing those pages to make a determination as to which deserve to be released to the American People.

Graham at 39:20: There's no question that the Bush administration covered up for the Saudis. Whether the president himself or someone on his behalf told the alphabet intelligence community agencies that they should go lax on the Saudis, I don't know. But their actions were certainly consistent with such a directive.