President Joe Biden’s administration said it intends to declassify information from long-withheld files relating to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks after victims’ families said the president would not be welcome at memorial events otherwise.
The families believe the documents could detail Saudi leaders’ backing of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
An August 6 statement signed by the families and people closely affected by the attack — numbering almost 1,700 — ramped up pressure on Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to look again at the matter.
Following that statement, Justice Department officials said in a Monday letter that the FBI — which has privileges over the contents — will aim to “identify additional information appropriate for disclosure,” The New York Times reported.
The time frame and exact extent to which information will be released remain unclear, though the letter said the FBI would release information “on a rolling basis as expeditiously as possible.”
In a Monday statement, Biden said: “I welcome the Department of Justice’s filing today, which commits to conducting a fresh review of documents where the government has previously asserted privileges, and to doing so as quickly as possible.”
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