What does the FBI have to hide and why were the Sept 11 documents censored?
An extract of the FBI’s internal presentation on the 9/11 occurrences is riddled with blacked out words & absence of nine pages.
MISSING pages from a profoundly censored internal FBI account on 9/11 contain volatile information on Saudi Arabia’s role in the 2001 extremist attack, according to a group of undercover journalists.
The released version of a slide illustration titled “Overview of the 9/11 Investigation” was made available by Florida Bulldog, a non-profit investigative journalist organization, after it sued the FBI for the accounts in 2015.
The FBI completed the presentation to the 9/11 Evaluation Commission as top-secret on April 25, 2014.
But the agency redacted thirteen pages & entirely deleted an additional 9 pages from the account, which was believed to have formerly contained around sixty pages, before releasing it in the month of March.
The document, released under USA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was also attained by public archives database Government Attic, which posted it on the web.
What does the FBI have to hide?
According to Florida Bulldog, which has led a long-running enquiry into Saudi Arabia’s probable link to the West’s most tarnished terrorist attack, the expurgated pages detail “the handover of money prior to & funding of the attacks”.
Some of the prints released are blank excepting for their tormenting titles which include “Funding of the Sept 11 Attacks”; “Early to Mid-2001: Additional Funding”; “August 2011: Reserving Sept 11 Tickets”; & “KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) Non-Immigrant Entry permit Application”.
Of the nineteen hijackers who crashed planes into New York’s Twin Towers & the Pentagon in Virginia, fifteen were Saudi Arabian.
In papers presented to court earlier this year, Florida Bulldog alleged the FBI inappropriately redacted key intelligence connected to the money that backed the 9/11 attacks.
The opening page of the FBI’s sixty-page, seriously censored Power Point presentation on the Sept 11 attacks.
When the FBI eventually released its internal slide illustration to the public in March, thirteen pages were redacted & 9 had been entirely removed from the presentation.
In May, Miami judge Cecilia Altonaga governed the file should be principally unlocked for public review, after the FBI failed to respect Freedom of Information Act Exemption 7(E). The immunity applies when the data would “disclose techniques & procedures for law administration investigations or prosecutions”.
But the FBI asked her to re-examine, disagreeing that while the document doesn’t discuss techniques, it might still divulge some methods used. As an example it mentioned a picture taken from a security camera which possibly will reveal the camera’s location unless redacted.
On July 6, Judge Altonaga had a variation in thought, siding with the FBI & withdrawing her May verdict, squashing Florida Bulldog’s application for a Freedom of Information Act trial.
“The court sees no necessity for further facts to be produced at trial,” she said.
The pages excused from revelation include 2 slides titled “Funding of the 9/11 Attacks” & “Early to Mid-2001 Added Funding” & others that presently appear blank under the headings: “Early to Mid-2000: Pilots/Intended Pilots Arrive U.S.”; “Investigative Findings regarding hijacker Credentials”, “Financial”, “Early to Mid-2001: Non-pilots reach U.S.”,‘July-August 2001: Knife Purchases” & “August 2001: Reserving nine eleven Tickets” as well as 4 pages titled, “Ongoing Investigation”.
Lawyers for Florida Bulldog have shown all signs that they may contest the ruling in the Supreme Court.
Florida Bulldog co-founder & editor Dan Christensen says the FBI’s basis for continuing to deny evidence on the 9/11 attacks are weak & beats logic. He spoke about the agency’s concerns, including the secretive redacted photograph, in an article posted on his website last month.
But he believes the real motive for the FBI’s confidentiality relates to questions about who funded the 9/11 attacks.
Saudi Arabia has been insistent that US lawmakers make modifications to the controversial law that clears the way for lawsuits seeking compensations from the kingdom regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Survivors & relatives of the almost three thousand victims are presently involved in a fraught civil process with Saudi Arabia amid allegations that the kingdom & its official charities were among those who provided funds. The Kingdom has denied any misconduct.
“One more page that the FBI wants to remain hidden ‘contains precise reasons deemed relevant in the analysis of the actions of the hijackers’ regarding financial dealings before September 11, 2001,” Christensen said.
“(According to the FBI) revelation of this material would reveal what the FBI already knows about the hijackers’ monetary actions & how they were able to stay ‘beneath the radar’.”
FBI record chief David M Hardy extended on this in his suggestion to keep the reacted & missing pages secret.
This page, with its hopeful title, is one of numerous which were left otherwise blank in the FBI’s heavily blue-pencilled report.
Christensen claims the FBI has also redacted particulars concerning:
*The kinds of weapons & credentials the conspirators carried;
*The timing of the arrival of the pilots, proposed pilots & accomplices in the US;
*Evidence about when the accomplices moved to their respective departure cities & the timing of their plane ticket procurement.
* A timeline of phone records & currency transfers amongst conspirators; and
*Material relating to previous flights the conspirators took prior to the attacks to include the collection & timing & positions of flights.
“One page, withdrawn in full, ‘is a picture taken by a security camera’. The FBI does not classify the photo’s subject, the date it was taken or its precise or general location,” Christensen said.
“The reason this was withheld is because the release of this image would reveal the location of the security camera at the site where the photo was taken. The disclosure would allow imminent subjects to know where to look for the security camera so as to evade the area in which the camera points, thereby circumventing exposure or the ability for the FBI & law enforcement to try to obtain an image of the subject.
“2 more pages from the overview section about the FBI’s ‘unending investigation,’ also entirely withheld, contain “evidence about a conspirator & his activity in preparation for the attacks. This is delicate information, which if revealed, would put at risk the collection methods used to obtain such information. It also divulges sensitivities that future subjects could benefit from in the future while planning & executing an attack.”
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Source: news.com.au
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