{"id":28064,"date":"2016-04-18T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28064"},"modified":"2016-04-18T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:08:28","slug":"this-may-get-very-ugly-very-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28064","title":{"rendered":"This May Get Very Ugly Very Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The New York Post <\/a>posted an article about the 28 pages of the 9\/11 Commission Report<\/a> that still have not been released. Did anyone really believe that in the almost 15 years since the attack some of the information in those 28 pages wouldn’t leak out? The question is, “Why are they leaking out now?” In my years of blogging, I have become rather cynical. There will be consequences to the leaking of this information. One consequence will be to make George W. Bush<\/a> look bad (in an election year), interesting. Another consequence will be to damage our relationship (such as it is) with Saudi Arabia<\/a> (oddly enough this happens at a time the Obama Administration is cozying up to Iran, the arch enemy of Saudi Arabia). The sword that the Saudis have always held over America’s head is the stability of the U.S. dollar. The Saudis have been the OPEC member that has insisted that oil be traded in American dollars. That is one of the few reasons America’s debt has not collapsed the American economy. Since Congress (and most of our recent Presidents) are responsible for that debt, they have an interest in not collapsing the economy–they would be blamed. Therefore, Washington<\/a> looks the other way when the Saudis are involved in terrorism–even when the terrorism is aimed at America.<\/p>\n

The article at The New York Post reports:<\/p>\n

Case agents I\u2019ve interviewed at the Joint Terrorism Task Forces<\/a> 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet time and time again, they were called off from pursuing leads. A common excuse was \u201cdiplomatic immunity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…9\/11 Commission member John Lehman was interested in the hijackers\u2019 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were refusing to declassify anything having to do with Saudi Arabia,\u201d Lehman was quoted as saying in the book, \u201cThe Commission.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did the US<\/a> scuttle the investigation into foreign sponsorship of 9\/11 to protect Bandar and other Saudi elite?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThings that should have been done at the time were not done,\u201d said Rep. Walter Jones, the North Carolina Republican who\u2019s introduced a bill demanding President Obama<\/a> release the 28 pages. \u201cI\u2019m trying to give you an answer without being too explicit.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Saudi reformer with direct knowledge of embassy involvement is more forthcoming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe made an ally of a regime that helped sponsor the attacks,\u201d said Ali al-Ahmed<\/a> of the Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs<\/a>. \u201cI mean, let\u2019s face it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of the recent leaks, the release of the 28 pages may be somewhat anti-climatic by the time it happens. I do, however, suspect that there are many less than obvious reasons why President Obama will release these pages (as he has promised to in the next sixty days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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