Latest News: United States: The September 11th Attacks (11-4-2021)

Latest news: United States: The FBI released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents Wednesday about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the September 11th attacks. The newest release of documents comes on the heels of mounting pressure from lawyers representing the 9/11 victims families who pressured the Biden administration on ordering the widespread declassification of information collected during the U.S. investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Long before last month’s release of a 2016 FBI report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s probe into possible Saudi complicity in 9/11, top Trump administration officials swore under “penalty of perjury” that information in the report was a “state secret” whose public release was likely to cause “significant harm to the national security.”