Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, who went from the rough elbows of Trenton politics to guide the highly regarded 9/11 Commission, has called on the Biden administration to declassify all top-secret files on America’s worst terrorist attack. More.
Tom Kean calls on Biden to release all secret files on possible Saudi links to the 9/11 attacks
Remembering Todd Gitlin, witness to 9/11
In 2000, when openDemocracy was being planned by four of us in a garage in North London’s Tufnell Park, our first visitor was America’s Todd Gitlin. How he found out about us, I don’t know. More.
Tom Kean looks back 20 years after the attacks of 9/11
Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, who chaired the 9/11 Commission, reflects on the 20th anniversary of the attacks. More.
9/11 suspect, Gitmo detainee to be sent back to Saudi Arabia
The U.S. is preparing to transfer a man suspected of being a 9/11 hijacker from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon announced that this comes after a review board recommended Mohammed al-Qahtani be transferred so he can be treated at a rehabilitation and mental health care program for extremists in Saudi Arabia. More.
Covid-19 Commission Modeled on 9/11 Inquiry Draws Bipartisan Backing
But Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Mr. Biden’s top medical adviser for the pandemic, said it was important to investigate the origins of the pandemic. He said it took years after the coronavirus that caused SARS emerged in 2002 to determine that it had almost certainly jumped from bats or civets to humans at a wet market in China. More.
Key senators push 9/11-style commission to investigate Covid and U.S. response
The two leading senators on the health committee are pushing forward with plans to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the roots and U.S. response to Covid-19. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Richard Burr, R-N.C., released a discussion draft of the PREVENT Pandemics Act last week. More.
FBI sought to question two Saudi princes about unknown man accompanying two 9/11 hijackers in still secret LAX airport video
Newly declassified FBI documents show that agents pushed hard to interview a pair of Saudi princes who they believed might help identify an unknown man captured on airport surveillance video accompanying two future 9/11 hijackers. More.
Committee unanimously passes Tester, Moran bill to provide health care for post-9/11 toxic-exposed veterans
The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee unanimously passed bipartisan legislation spearheaded by Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) to offer Post-9/11 combat veterans, including those suffering from conditions caused by toxic exposures, access to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care. More.