as we can as the wahhabist who run saudi arabia. more on the lawsuit seeking to expose the full truth of saudi links to 9/11. survivors of 9/11 and their family members banding together in court to call out the justice department for protecting the saudi government. and by extension the al qaeda terrorists who killed nearly 3,000 people on u.s. soil. at the heart of their complaint, a classified report from 2016 that details everything the u.s. government knows about the 9/11 attacks. reports the justice department is refusing to make public. one survivor at the hearing in new york city today says it left him feeling nauseated. our fbi is clearly protecting the saudis, clearly protecting them by not releasing this information. after 18, 19, almost 20 years now later, there should be no national secrets, security secrets anymore. one explosive detail in that report, the name of a saudi co-conspirator who allegedly ordered assistance
as we can as the wahhabist who run saudi arabia. hamore on the lawsuit seeking to expose the full truth of saudi links to 9/11. survivors of 9/11 and their family members banding together in court to call out the justice department for protecting the saudi government. and by extension the al qaeda terrorists who killeded nearly 3,000 people on u.s. soil. at the heart of their complaint, a classified report from 2016 that details everything the u.s. government knows about the 9/11 attacks. reports the justice department is refusing to make public. one survivor at the hearing in new york city today says it left him feeling nauseated. our fbi is clearly protecting the saudis, clearly protecting them by sinot releasing this information. l after 18, 19, almost 20 years now later, there should be no national secrets, security secrets anymore. one explosive detail in that report, the name of a saudi co-conspirator who
people familiar with the matter. they were among the conversations that aides took remarkable stems ps to keep fro becoming public. instead, a transcript was never circulated at all. the source said was highly unusual. the call contained no security secrets, as the white house was looking at the murder of jamal khashog khashoggi. it was restricted. it s not clear if the aides took the additional step to place the saudi arabia and russia phone calls in the secured, code word operated system, that had the phone call with ukraine s
that they re somehow sharing security secrets with the world is just false. no, the security clearance that most of these officials have, at least the former directors and deputy directors, and i don t know all of them still do, but to the extent they do, it is to ease the conversations that they may have with current officers. if they re brought in to review a case or review a file, to help the current leadership think through something. one of the really hard problems. it makes it easier to do that. instead of the current director having to use discretionary authority to allow them to seek classified information without a clearance, which is harder. i want to go back to something david said, which i think has been underexplored in this in the last couple days. people don t understand just how apolitical the intelligence community is. i worked side-by-side with many of the authors and signatories of yesterday s letter, of the leaders, and today s letter of a wide array of people fro
source of this. the former intelligence officials, and david, you can follow up here, but they re not sharing national secrets on television when they come on as commentators. they re simply giving analysis. this whole idea that because they have a security clearance, that they re somehow sharing security secrets with the world is just false. no, the security clearance that most of these officials have, at least the former directors and deputy directors, and i don t know all of them still do, but to the extent they do, it is to ease the conversations that they may have with current officers. if they re brought in to review a case or review a file, to help the current leadership think through something. one of the really hard problems. it makes it easier for them to come in and do that. instead of the current director having to use discretionary authority to allow them to seek classified information without a clearance, which is harder. but i want to go back to something david said,