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Familiar with, 9/11 families and the state secrets privilege. and i want to just say i was encouraged and pleased when president biden issued executive order requiring department of justice to complete review of documents sought by 9/11 survivors. they are in court now taking advantage of the overwhelmingly approved measure that gives if the courts jurisdiction over their claims for the harm they suffered when their loved ones were killed during the 9/11 attack. i was glad to see that the f.b.i....

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Say and what they couldnt. but the surprising turn in this, hallie, was that three supreme court justices, stephen breyer, neil gorsuch, and sonia so so toe sonia sotomayor, will the government make him available. justice sotomayor said we want a clear answer. bryan fletcher, the acting attorney general, said thats not my decision to make. abu zubaydah has been under defense department control and his lawyers say in essence hes being held incommunicado. >> pete, talk about some of the bigger pic...

Revealing something would harm national security, that basically should be the end of the matter. not quite that extreme, but thats just about what the governments position is. the lawyers on the other side say, no, judges ought to be able to make these decisions, they ought to weigh, whats the governments interest in keeping something secret, whats the need for it on the other hand by the person who is trying to keep it. the fact is the state secrets privilege has very little been discussed by ...

Government refuses to give us the documents that we need to bring closure. they do not deny that these document success appeared we subpoenaed the fbi in 2019. the fbis response is that the federal government is involved with what is known as the state secrets privilege, so it is not a conspiracy theory that these documents exist. its not even a question of the government knowing. they show culpability on behalf of the kingdom of saudi arabia for supporting the 9/11 hijackers, but our federal go...

FBI Director Christopher Wray promised the bureau would do “everything they possibly can” to declassify information related to any connections between Saudi Arabia’s government and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Quality ASIO recruits hard to find An Australian terrorism expert says a lack of quality graduates will stymie the Federal Governments attempts to double staff numbers at the nations top spy agency. Prime Minister John Howard says the Government will seek to double the number of staff at the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) between now and 2010. The upgrade is part of efforts to prevent a terrorist attack in Australia. Michael McKinley from the Australian National Univer...

Barr said hes prepared to use the state secrets privilege to end the lawsuit. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live on this. >> reporter: whether the level of transparency threatens national security. in the new declaration believed to be his first involving the secret privilege, attorney general william barr told a california court the justice department will not grant twitter lawyers access to the fbi records. deck hrar raying reads in part, after careful and actual perso...

Litigated that painfully over the years. its not like a civil case where you can go into discovery and find out who said what to who in an office. all of this is coming out of the most secret court, in some of the most classified areas of the governments, hes going to hit the state secrets privilege. hes going to find it very hard to get information. >> one of the things interesting about carter page is that he is desperately now trying to reposition himself as a victim, as a traitor, not as som...