by Dan Christensen at Florida Bulldog.org
For the last month and a half, a torrent of unsettling, even maddening information about what led up to 9/11 has flowed out of a federal courthouse in New York City. It does not make Saudi Arabia look good. It does not make the FBI look good, either.
And there’s more to come.
The releases, several thousand pages, came as the presiding judge in the case that pits the 9/11 families against Saudi Arabia partially lifted the heavy veil of secrecy that’s long hung over much of the case as he considers whether to grant Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss the case. On the 23rd anniversary of al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, both the public and the plaintiffs themselves now have available evidence that’s never been seen before.
What’s gotten the most attention so far is the alleged “casing video” of the U.S. Capitol, made and narrated in the summer of 1999 by Omar al Bayoumi, a man identified by the FBI as a Saudi spy. Florida Bulldog first reported on the video’s existence in February. TV’s “60 Minutes’’ obtained a copy in June, ran parts of it on the CBS Evening News, and indicated it will have another report during its season premiere on Sunday…
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