New York Times - Declassify the 9/11 Pages

Op-Ed

By Rep. Walter Jones and Rep. Stephen Lynch

Pursuing Suspicions of Saudi Ties to Sept. 11 Attacks" (news article, April 14) brings attention to Bob Graham's effort to see the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry report on the 9/11 attacks declassified.

You write that intelligence officials claim that the contents of the 28 pages regarding a possible Saudi connection to the 9/11 attacks "were explored and found to be unsubstantiated in a later review by the national commission." If that is the case, then what is the harm in releasing the pages? Yet they remain classified.

Along with Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, we have introduced H.R. 14 to urge the president to declassify the 28 pages. We are working to make sure that the bill is introduced in the Senate and brought up in the House. The American people can ask their members of Congress to support this effort.

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