"Zelikow fired a staffer, who had repeatedly protested over limitations on the Saudi investigation, after she obtained a copy of the 28 pages outside of official channels. Other staffers described an angry scene late one night, near the end of the investigation, when two investigators who focused on the Saudi allegations were forced to rush back to the commission's offices after midnight after learning to their astonishment that some of the most compelling evidence about a Saudi tie to 9/11 was being edited out of the report "
"Lehman and another commissioner, former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, filed affidavits last year in support of a lawsuit brought against the Saudi government by the families of 9/11 victims. 'Significant questions remain unanswered concerning possible involvement of Saudi government institutions and actors,' Kerrey said. Lehman agreed: 'Contrary to the argument advocated by the Kingdom, the 9/11 commission did not exonerate Saudi Arabia of culpability for the events of 11 September 2001 or the financing of al-Qaida.' He said he was 'deeply troubled' by the evidence gathered about a hijackers' support network in California."
Part 3 -- THE LOWDOWN AND THE UPSHOT
Google "photo of Sept 13, 2001 Truman Balcony." You will see the four of them -- Bush, Bandar, Cheney and Rice -- lounging in wicker chairs on the Truman balcony of the White House -- two days after 9-11. Do they look worried to you? No they don't. They look satisfied.
Watch Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 -- it is available for free on YouTube. This is a powerful documentary, the most popular of all time. It becomes all so obvious.
Fahrenheit 911 came out in 2004. Michael then had the prescience to include reference to the 28 pages and also to focus on the Sept. 13 visit on the Truman Balcony.
Michael gets very specific about the evacuation arranged by Bandar and Bush on Sept. 13. "The White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladins and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and bin Ladins out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Ladin family were allowed to leave the country." No questioning of the departing Saudis. Nary a subpoena.
But Michael captures another searing tableau whose import is the same as that on the Truman Balcony. It is the morning of 9/11 in a room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. Taking place is the annual investor conference of the Carlyle Group, a company heavily invested in defense a/k/a military-industrial-intelligence complex. Prominent among those gathered are Carlyle principals George H.W. Bush and Shafiq bin Laden, who is Osama bin Laden's half-brother. Together they view the collapses of the towers.
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