{"id":186566,"date":"2013-12-18T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/18\/bush-used-phoney-national-security-excuse-to-cover-up-for-his-saudi-buddies\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:16:00","slug":"bush-used-phoney-national-security-excuse-to-cover-up-for-his-saudi-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/18\/bush-used-phoney-national-security-excuse-to-cover-up-for-his-saudi-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Used Phoney National Security Excuse to Cover Up For His Saudi Buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so not surprised by this.  There is a reason why Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saudr, is also known as &#8220;Bandar Bush&#8221; for his close ties to the Bush Crime Family.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the Bush administration flew members of the Saudi royal family out of the US following 911, and now we know that they <a href=\"http:\/\/my.firedoglake.com\/yellowsnapdragon\/2013\/12\/17\/over-easy-revisiting-bushs-28-page-redaction-of-saudi-financing-of-terrorism\/\">redacted all references to the House of Saud funding terrorism from the 911 report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">With relationships changing between the US and major actors in the Middle East, perhaps it is inevitable that the issue of Saudi Arabia\u2019s funding of terrorism in the US is being revisited.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">George W Bush in the Oval Office<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Congressmembers Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) and Stephen Lynch (D-Mass) recently got access to unredacted copies of the 2002 report of the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry (JICI) on 9\/11. You may recall that 28 pages of that document had been redacted by George W. Bush for \u201cnational security purposes\u201d. It has been widely reported that the 28 missing pages of the JICI report document a money trail from the Saudi Royal Family to the 9\/11 hijackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2018I was absolutely shocked by what I read,\u2019 Jones told International Business Times. \u2018What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me. I cannot go into it any more than that. I had to sign an oath that what I read had to remain confidential. But the information I read disappointed me greatly.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This is no new revelation. At the time of the JICI report\u2019s initial release, there was controversy about the extensive redactions and the information that was being withheld. Fourty-six Senators (all Democrats but one) signed a letter asking Bush to release the 28 pages. Bush refused.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congressmen Jones and Lynch (The Dem, Lynch, is also pretty right-wing, FYI) are doing their level best to say that Bush covered up for the House of Saud without actually revealing technically classified data.<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect Obama do declassify this.<\/p>\n<p>First, his actions over the past 5 years indicate that he has no interest at all in transparency, and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, he is not sutpid, and he understands taht there is an implicit contract between him, and George W. Bush, and whoever is Obama&#8217;s eventual successor, that dirty laundry will not be revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so not surprised by this. There is a reason why Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saudr, is also known as &#8220;Bandar Bush&#8221; for his close ties to the Bush Crime Family. We know that the Bush administration flew members of the Saudi royal family out of the US following 911, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,1031,1103,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-house-of-saud","category-secrecy","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}