First Bush is endorsed by al-Qaeda, now he locks up the support of Saudi Arabia. This is certainly the guy we wanting leading the "war" on Islamic-inspired terror. Anyway, here's something for our truth-seeking sleuths in the blogosphere to pursue when they're done with the trivia:
"[T]hanks to Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror, a new book by Senator Bob Graham, we know that the Saudis may have played an even bigger role in 9/11 than previously reported. As a member of the Senate intelligence committee, Graham said he learned that 'evidence of official Saudi support' for at least two of the 19 hijackers was 'incontrovertible'.
"As co-chairman of the joint House-Senate panel investigating 9/11, Graham found his efforts to get to the bottom of the Saudi role in 9/11 again and again were quashed by the Bush administration. When his committee tried to subpoena a key witness who happened to be an FBI informant, the FBI refused to cooperate. 'It was the only time in my senatorial experience that the FBI has refused to deliver a congressional subpoena,' Graham told Salon.com in a recent interview. 'The FBI wasn't acting on its own,' he added, 'but had been directed by the White House not to cooperate.'
"In the end, 27 pages of the report on the role of the Saudis in 9/11 were classified by the White House and not released to the public. According to Graham, the Bush administration may have censored the material because it did not want the public to be aware of Saudi support for the 9/11 terrorists. 'There has been a long-term special relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia,' he said, 'and that relationship has probably reached a new high under the George W Bush administration, in part because of the long and close family relationship that the Bushes have had with the Saudi royal family.'
"Graham writes: 'It was as if the president's loyalty lay more with Saudi Arabia than with America's safety.'"
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