As the solemn 9/11 anniversary approaches, the fight for transparency continues.
The September 11th Transparency Act of 2021 — bipartisan legislation to improve access to federal 9/11 investigations — is being introduced Thursday by Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
They will be joined by family members of 9/11 victims.
“It’s unfortunate that the U.S. Congress needs to introduce legislation to force the Biden administration to stop covering for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” said Brett Eagleson, who was 15 years old when his dad died while working at the Twin Towers.
The legislation is part of a push to finally crack open secret documents reportedly linking Saudi officials to some of the 9/11 hijackers.
“You would hope and think that the President of the United States would choose us over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and would have our backs in this fight,” he told the Herald Wednesday.
This comes as attorney Andrew Maloney firm’s, Kreindler and Kreindler with offices in Boston, is representing 10,000 families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001, or had family members die from the toxic fallout following the toppling of the Twin Towers in New York City.
He and other lawyers have joined in going after the Saudi government to once and for all expose support given to the 9/11 hijackers two decades ago.
Lawmakers in D.C. — on both sides of the aisle — have written to AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to finally go public with the intel that could expose how out of the 19 hijackers that day, 15 of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia.
They were all affiliated with al-Qaeda and hijacked four jets, killing nearly 3,000 and they were reportedly financially backed by Saudi officials.
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