How do we reconcile the AUMF with an obstructed 9/11 investigation?

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28 pages of the Joint Inquiry report are STILL classified because they point to Saudi involvement in facilitating the 9/11 plot.

The full CIA IG internal review report is still classified because some people in D.C. don't think it's fair to single out CIA officials and agents who failed to do their jobs properly in the lead up to 9/11. The 9/11 Commission wasn't able to get to the bottom of CIA conduct because they were either unwilling or obstructed. My source for this is 9/11 Commission legal counsel John Farmer who admitted on the record that the Commission wasn't able to determine what happened in regard to hijackers al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar who were linked to a Saudi support network.

IMO you can't have it both ways. You can't as a powerful US government official tell the public that they must make civil liberty concessions based on the lesson of 9/11 while completely blocking off avenues of investigation and accountability because they might upset some people. Yet that is the very situation the public has been told makes sense. If a citizen acted as government officials have they would be charged with obstruction of justice and accessory after the fact.

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2. Contradictions abound

Sources have said that security records – including photos of license plates – from the gated community where the al-Hijjis lived later revealed that vehicles used by the future hijackers had visited the al-Hijji home.

The FBI, however, has publicly denied finding any evidence linking the family to 9/11.

Yet 31 pages of FBI documents released to BrowardBulldog.org in March say something very different: that the Sarasota Saudis had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.”

The Justice Department recently asked U.S. District Judge William Zloch to end the lawsuit, citing national security and declaring that it has no more documents to produce.

Bill Doyle, who lives in The Villages, lost his son Joseph in the attacks.

“The FBI keeps contradicting itself,” Doyle said in a statement released by the group on Thursday. “But they can’t have it both ways. And the courts should not let them get away with it.”

9/11 family members demand the FBI come clean about Sarasota Saudis

The AUMF has been cited to justify operations in Somalia yet direct links to the hijackers are being covered up.