Paul will attempt to pry loose the 9/11 report

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WASHINGTON — Presidential hopeful Rand Paul has joined an effort by Bay State U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch to publicly disclose part of a secret government report to examine a claim the government of Saudi Arabia was a principal financier of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“We cannot let this lack of transparency erode trust and make us feel less secure,” Paul told reporters on Capitol Hill as he announced his bipartisan Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims Act, which would direct President Obama to declassify and make public 28 pages of the 2002 report from a joint inquiry by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

A House bill filed by Lynch and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 14 lawmakers was filed in January.

Paul said he would file the measure next week as an amendment to the Department of Defense authorization bill.

The Senate bill is a boost to the years-long effort by Lynch to declassify the redacted portions of the report, an effort that gained traction earlier this year when convicted al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui claimed that members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family were the chief funders of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“I think it gives us a shot in the arm,” Lynch told the Herald, adding that Paul, a Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky, has helped bring other senators on board the effort as well.


If he can pull this off I expect you can kiss Jeb Bush goodbye.