BBC: Family members of the victims of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks have called on President Joe Biden to stay away from memorial events unless he declassifies files about the attacks.

Nearly 1,800 people signed a letter calling on him to release documents that they believe implicate officials from Saudi Arabia in the plot.

Letter signed by family members of survivors: We cannot in good faith, and with veneration to those lost, sick, and injured, welcome the president to our hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment.

You gotta wonder, on what grounds does the US government feel the need to shield a fascist, totalitarian regime from the truth regarding 911?

Letter: Since the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered implicating Saudi government officials in supporting the attacks.

Through multiple administrations, the Department of Justice and the FBI have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the American people from learning the full truth about the 9/11 attacks.

Twenty years later, there is simply no reason - unmerited claims of 'national security' or otherwise - to keep this information secret. But if President Biden reneges on his commitment and sides with the Saudi government, we would be compelled to publicly stand in objection to any participation by his administration in any memorial ceremony of 9/11.

In twenty years time are we still going to be petitioning government authorities to release 'classified' info about the origin of Covid?

In twenty years time are we still going to be petitioning government authorities to release 'classified' info about the origin of Covid?

You bet! They're still not releasing all the records on the JFK assassination, and that was nearly 60 years ago. What possible justification can there be for that? Most all the stakeholders are already dead anyway. Will they release them after 100 years when everybody involved is certainly dead?

911 precipitated the war in Afghanistan. 20 years later, the US and allies have withdrawn and the country is returning to Taliban rule. In other words the war has been officially lost. Lots of death but no positive results.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, a totalitarian regime, the home-country of most of the hijackers, is still being shielded from investigation by the US, presumably coz that would show Saudi govt officials had funded the hijackers (otherwise why not release it?).

Must be another one of those 'higher-truth' things.

It's amazing how good the US is at losing wars given how much money is spent on the military.

Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday ordered reviews of the potential declassification of documents from the FBI's investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

"When I ran for president, I made a commitment to ensuring transparency regarding the declassification of documents on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America," Biden said in a statement. "As we approach the 20th anniversary of that tragic day, I am honoring that commitment."

That sounds promising.

The suspicion amongst victims groups is that FBI officials "lied about or destroyed evidence linking Saudi Arabia to the hijackers". Makes you wonder who the hell the FBI thinks they're working for. US intelligence agencies have become a world unto themselves. We're seeing the same thing with Covid.

Not sure where this goes - it's not about 911 exactly but there are parallels with Anthrax and it involves a chief architect of the Iraq War2 - Tony Blair.

Blair: Islamism, both the ideology and the violence, is a first order security threat and, unchecked, it will come to us, even if centred far from us, as 9/11 demonstrated.

COVID-19 has taught us about deadly pathogens. Bio-terror possibilities may seem like the realm of science fiction. But we would be wise now to prepare for their potential use by non-state actors.

Before Covid taught us anything, Anthrax taught us that a lab-exit orchestrated by homegrown scientists resulted in a mega-splurge on funding for the same biodefense scientist culture that caused Anthrax in the beginning - and the War in Iraq.

Now we have Covid, another potential lab-exit, caused by the same unaccountable science culture - and you want to use that as an excuse to ramp up bio-defense funding even further - to protect us from the Islamic bio-terrorists?

I would add the threat of electronic terrorism, although that, I think, might be easier to track. And then there's dirty nuclear attacks.