Senators Demand Answers from FBI on Failure to Disclose Evidence on Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks

New York conference riveted by video of suspected Saudi agent ‘casing’ Washington, DC and new evidence of odd gaps in FBI and DoJ investigations

Just one of the pieces of evidence tying Omar al-Bayoumi to the 9/11 Saudi hijackers captured by British cops that went missing: His notebook with rough calculations of a plane’s rate of descent was turned over to the FBI but DoJ mysterously declined to ask for Bayoumi’s extradition to the US.

A pair of U.S. senators is demanding an accounting from the FBI about why damning evidence pointing to a likely Saudi role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks was hidden from key investigators and the public for more than two decades.

“Over the past year, crucial new evidence about the role of Saudi officials has been revealed publicly for the first time, even though it had been in the FBI since the weeks immediately after the 9/11 attacks,” Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Wednesday in a virtual address to a counter-terrorism conference organized in New York by the Soufan Center on the eve of today’s 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.