Last week, multiple outlets reported the Pentagon had sent letters to victims’ families informing them that plea deals are being considered for the five suspects, who have been held in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba since 2006…
9/11 Families, Experts Mount Unprecedented Challenge to NIST in New Filing…
Family members of those who died on September 11, 2001, joined building experts earlier today in submitting a “request for correction” to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding its 2008 report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. The request, which comprises more than 100 pages and five exhibits, represents […]
Barr, Grenell Block 9/11 Families Access to Evidence with Broad, ‘Unprecedented’ Claims of Secrecy…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly invoked the state secrets privilege this week to block 9/11 survivors and family members from obtaining crucial evidence to support their multi-billion dollar damages lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. In sworn public declarations filed in federal court in New York, the nation’s […]
FBI Seeks to Hide Its Legal Arguments in 9/11 Case As Senator’s Ask Justice’s IG to Investigate ‘Abnormalities’…
The U.S. is asking a federal judge to allow it to file secret legal arguments in the mammoth New York lawsuit against Saudi Arabia brought by 9/11 families and survivors. If the court allows it, the government’s hidden line of reasoning would be so secret that even the 9/11 victims and their lawyers would not […]
U.S. Senators Seek Answers from Inspector General on Behalf of 9/11 Families…
9/11 Survivors Call on Theresa May to Publish ‘Suppressed’ Saudi Terrorist Funding Report…
Survivors of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack are urging British Prime Minister Theresa May to publish a report on Saudi Arabia’s alleged funding of extremists in the UK. The government last week announced the Home Office report, which was commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, will not be published because of “national security […]