<story><title>Congress Releases &apos;28 Pages&apos; That Looks for Saudi Links to Sept. 11 Hijackers</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/07/15/486198380/congress-releases-28-pages-that-looks-for-saudi-links-to-sept-11-hijackers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>founderscare</author><text>Released on a Friday (like every bad press announcement) and also while the news is saturated with the French attack in Nice. I guess they really hope no one pays much attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, said it welcomed the document&amp;#x27;s release, which it had advocated for years.&lt;p&gt;The Saudi ambassador to the US:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Since 2002, the 9&amp;#x2F;11 Commission and several government agencies, including the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., have investigated the contents of the &amp;#x27;28 Pages&amp;#x27; and have confirmed that neither the Saudi government, nor senior Saudi officials, nor any person acting on behalf of the Saudi government provided any support or encouragement for these attacks,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We hope the release of these pages will clear up, once and for all, any lingering questions or suspicions about Saudi Arabia&amp;#x27;s actions, intentions, or long-term friendship with the United States,&amp;quot; he added.&lt;p&gt;Just because it was released on a Friday doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it was a bad news dump.  The Saudi government has encouraged the release of the document for years because the classification was doing more damage than the document.&lt;p&gt;I will definitely be interested to see how independent third parties interpret the document.</text></comment>
<story><title>Congress Releases &apos;28 Pages&apos; That Looks for Saudi Links to Sept. 11 Hijackers</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/07/15/486198380/congress-releases-28-pages-that-looks-for-saudi-links-to-sept-11-hijackers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>founderscare</author><text>Released on a Friday (like every bad press announcement) and also while the news is saturated with the French attack in Nice. I guess they really hope no one pays much attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>&amp;gt; while the news is saturated with the French attack in Nice&lt;p&gt;Plus coup in Turkey.</text></comment>