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The U.S. Congress on Friday released a long-classified section of the official report on the Sept. 11 attacks that discussed potential links between some of the hijackers and Saudi Arabia but said the links were not independently verified.

The 28 pages of the report on the 2002 investigation focus on potential Saudi links to the 2001 aircraft attacks on the United States, in which nearly 3,000 people died.

They were issued by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee after years of wrangling in Washington between Congress and different administrations, Republicans and Democrats, and urging by families of those killed.

The release of the previously classified pages is unlikely to end the controversy over the role of Saudi Arabia, an important U.S. partner in the Middle East. Many U.S. officials who opposed their release had worried they would damage diplomatic relations.

Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

"According to various FBI documents and CIA memorandum, some of the September 11 hijackers, while in the United States, apparently had contacts with individuals who may be connected to the Saudi Government," the report said, giving a catalog of alleged links.

They included reported contacts between Saudis in California and a statement that a man who was reportedly a Saudi Interior Ministry official stayed at the same Virginia hotel as one hijacker in September 2001.

Another section said that Omar al-Bayoumi, said to be a Saudi intelligence officer, met with two hijackers at a public place after they arrived in San Diego. It said, citing FBI files, that his salary rose to $3,700 a month from $465 two months after two of the hijackers arrived in California.

One page described how two of the hijackers asked flight attendants technical questions during a trip in 1999 from Phoenix to Washington to attend a party at the Saudi embassy. One tried twice to enter the cockpit. The plane made an emergency landing and the FBI investigated, but did not prosecute.

CONTROVERSY WILL CONTINUE

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said its agreement to the release is not an indication that the intelligence community agrees with the pages' accuracy or concurs with the information it contains.

The office also on Friday released a declassified summary of an assessment of whether Riyadh may have supported al Qaeda before and after the attacks, saying the Saudi government and many of its agencies had been infiltrated and exploited by individuals associated with or sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's militant network.

Several members of Congress said they were pleased the pages had finally been released. Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence panel, said he hoped the release would quiet rumors.

"The Intelligence Community and the 9/11 Commission, which followed the Joint Inquiry that produced these so-called 28 pages, investigated the questions they raised and was never able to find sufficient evidence to support them," he said.

Legislation that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia has been passed by the U.S. Senate and is making its way through the House, despite President Barack Obama's threat to veto the measure.

A Sept. 11 families group made clear the pages' release would not stop their push for the legislation. "Congress has to stand up for the interests of the thousands of innocent Americans who lost loved ones on 9/11," the "9/11 Families" organization said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, Abdullah al-Saud, said the country welcomed the release.

"We hope the release of these pages will clear up, once and for all, any lingering questions or suspicions about Saudi Arabia's actions, intentions, or long-term friendship with the United States," he said.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters before the pages were released that they would show no evidence of Saudi complicity.

The Obama administration sent a declassified version of the 28 pages, with many lines and sentences blacked out to protect intelligence sources and methods, to Congress on Friday morning. The House intelligence panel released it a few hours later.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

And yet, the US attacked Afghanistan instead of holding Saudi Arabia to account.

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In a surprise announcement, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026 — giving her 46 more days in office. The timing matters more than people may realize. Under federal law, Members of Congress qualify for a pension, funded in part with taxpayer contributions, only after completing five full years of service. Greene began serving on January 3, 2021, and her departure date leaves her with 1,829 days of service — five years and three days, just enough to meet the eligibility threshold. Her pension would start at $8,717 at age 62, and based on actuarial data, could total more than $265,000 over her lifetime.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I find it hilarious that MTG made sure that she's resigning 3 days after she ensures that she'll have a lifetime bonus paycheck on the taxpayer dime.



Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Timing Secures Her Congressional Pension by Three Days

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/marjorie-taylor-greenes-resignat
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In a surprise announcement, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026 — giving her 46 more days in office. The timing matters more than people may realize. Under federal law, Members of Congress qualify for a pension, funded in part with taxpayer contributions, only after completing five full years of service. Greene began serving on January 3, 2021, and her departure date leaves her with 1,829 days of service — five years and three days, just enough to meet the eligibility threshold. Her pension would start at $8,717 at age 62, and based on actuarial data, could total more than $265,000 over her lifetime.

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Now I know that inflation makes the following statement untrue, but that free $265,000 she just scammed off the taxpayer by giving herself that extra 46 days instead of leaving today is more money than I have made in my entire life.

And incidentally, that $8,717 per year she will be getting is more money than I spend in an entire year and I'd actually be able to pay all of my bills for the year and save about $1,000 if somebody gave me that money for free. And if somebody told me I had $265,000 coming my way, I'd be living like a king for the rest of my life without ever having to work another day in my life.

They're all crooks. Every single one of them.

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6ixStringJoker officially admits he is poor.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I find it hilarious that MTG made sure that she's resigning 3 days after she ensures that she'll have a lifetime bonus paycheck on the taxpayer dime.



Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Timing Secures Her Congressional Pension by Three Days

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/marjorie-taylor-greenes-resignat
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In a surprise announcement, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026 — giving her 46 more days in office. The timing matters more than people may realize. Under federal law, Members of Congress qualify for a pension, funded in part with taxpayer contributions, only after completing five full years of service. Greene began serving on January 3, 2021, and her departure date leaves her with 1,829 days of service — five years and three days, just enough to meet the eligibility threshold. Her pension would start at $8,717 at age 62, and based on actuarial data, could total more than $265,000 over her lifetime.

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Now I know that inflation makes the following statement untrue, but that free $265,000 she just scammed off the taxpayer by giving herself that extra 46 days instead of leaving today is more money than I have made in my entire life.

And incidentally, that $8,717 per year she will be getting is more money than I spend in an entire year and I'd actually be able to pay all of my bills for the year and save about $1,000 if somebody gave me that money for free. And if somebody told me I had $265,000 coming my way, I'd be living like a king for the rest of my life without ever having to work another day in my life.

They're all crooks. Every single one of them.

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I didn't say anything that I haven't said since I signed up to the site in 2006.

My net worth is over $400k, despite the fact I've only made about $250k in my lifetime.

It's because I'm a lot smarter than you are.

A LOT.

Zero debt since 2005. House paid for free and clear with cash. Car paid for with cash. After paying off my first decent car loan in one huge lump sum during the summer of 2001 when I was working in a political job through election season and racking up to 80 hours of overtime during those weeks, I've only spent roughly $175 in interest in my entire lifetime.




You keep slaving away to pay off all that debt though, rich guy.

JP Morgan/Chase thanks you for your service.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I didn't say anything that I haven't said since I signed up to the site in 2006.

My net worth is over $400k, despite the fact I've only made about $250k in my lifetime.

It's because I'm a lot smarter than you are.

A LOT.

Zero debt since 2005. House paid for free and clear with cash. Car paid for with cash. After paying off my first decent car loan in one huge lump sum during the summer of 2001 when I was working in a political job through election season and racking up to 80 hours of overtime during those weeks, I've only spent roughly $175 in interest in my entire lifetime.

And I managed that by making use of my very high credit score and getting free balance transfers and 12 months interest-free on the transfers back during the GWB days when they still did that kind of thing, and paying those down before those offers dried up. Had I managed to do that only 3 months earlier than I did, my earned money going towards interest payments since the summer of 2001 would be nil.




You keep slaving away to pay off all that debt though, rich guy.

JP Morgan/Chase thanks you for your service.




ETA: Just checked CreditKarma for the first time in a while....

833 credit score. And I haven't worked a single day since June of 2019.



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Tell it to ChatGPT.

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