{"id":37856,"date":"2016-05-13T07:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37856"},"modified":"2016-05-13T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:04:58","slug":"911-commission-member-saudi-arabia-supported-the-terrorist-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=37856","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Commission Member: ‘Saudi Arabia Supported the Terrorist Attacks’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saudi officials were ‘supporting’ 9\/11 hijackers, commission member says<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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First serious public split revealed among commissioners over the release of the secret \u201828 pages\u2019 that detail Saudi ties to 2001 terrorist attacks<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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In their joint statement last month, the chairman and vice-chairman of the commission suggested they agreed that there might be danger in releasing the full 28 pages of the congressional report. Photograph: Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Philip Shenon
\nThe Guardian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A former Republican member of the 9\/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission\u2019s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9\/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia<\/a>, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9\/11.<\/p>\n