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What was on the 18- and-a-half minutes of tape erased by the Nixon White House? We’ll likely never know.
While theories and speculation about the content of that lost material still resonate, particularly in alcoves of the Internet, there is one contemporary puzzle that is beginning to attract the attention of lawmakers and citizens.
From the day of its release in 2002, 28 pages of the the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001 — commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commission report — have remained classified.
Not only is the content of those pages being kept hidden, but so is the reason for their continuing classification.
Although the public is prohibited from learning the content of the redacted portion of the report, a handful of lawmakers have looked through the protected pages and believe it is time to make Americans aware of what’s contained therein.
In an interview with former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul recorded on August 14, Representative Walter Jones (R-N.C.) gave Paul a glimpse into the procedure he (Jones) had to follow to read the redacted section.
You have to go down into a room that is guarded by uniformed officers, and then also you have an FBI person to sit there in the room. You can’t make any notes. The Bush people do not want it released. It’s not a national security issue. But it would be embarrassing to the previous administration if this information is opened for the public…. There will be no hope for America’s future if the American people don’t know the truth about a tragedy such as 9/11.
In December 2013, Representative Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) reported on his own experience with the document:
Twelve years after the horrific September 11 attacks, unanswered questions still remain. These pages contain information that is vital to a full understanding of the events and circumstances surrounding this tragedy. The families of the victims and the American people deserve better; they deserve answers, they deserve a full accounting, and that has not happened yet.
Ron Paul’s Voices of Liberty website published comments made by several other former and current legislators echoing the sentiments of Jones and Lynch.
advance knowledge ? try helped plan it and pull it off.
Anybody even question, why a half-wit like gw bush, was illegally installed as the POTUS??? Then like the choreographed events between the congressional do-nothing republicans and the do-nothing democrats and of course, President Obama. Then this sudden terror surge going on in the middle east, that apparently none of the the US’s spy agencies new about? Europe and England and other countries in the middle east new about the ISIS, but in the US, they supposedly came on the scene, like a deadly virus that has mutated? One just has to wonder….WTF is going on?? Getting pretty spooky out there.