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CIA Director John Brennan says nothing in Congressional Report directly links Saudi Arabia to 9/11 attacks

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"a-headers">&NewLine;<h6><strong>CIA Director John Brennan speaking to NBC anchor Chuck Todd on Meet The Press&colon;&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Secret pages from a Congressional investigation into 9&sol;11 attacks should be kept classified&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h1 id&equals;"a-header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a0a&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;Documents should be kept classified&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;380a0a&semi;"><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was a preliminary review that put information in there that was not corroborated&comma; not vetted and not deemed to be accurate”<&sol;em> <&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<article>The feds shouldn’t release 28 secret pages from a Congressional investigation into the Sept&period; 11 attacks because they contain inaccurate information suggesting a Saudi link to the attacks&comma; the director of the CIA said Sunday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;John Brennan defended the decision to keep this portion of the 2002 report classified in an interview on NBC’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Meet the Press&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was a preliminary review that put information in there that was not corroborated&comma; not vetted and not deemed to be accurate&comma;” Brennan said&comma; in contrast to the views of<br &sol;>&NewLine;former Florida Sen&period; Bob Graham&comma; who co-chaired the joint Congressional inquiry&period; Graham has been leading a push to release the documents&comma; saying they suggest a Saudi role&period;But Brennan insisted it would be wrong to reach that conclusion&comma; noting the early information in the Congressional report was further investigated by the 9&sol;11 Commission and other groups&period;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-21409" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;obama-saudi-arabia-2016-04-21t135204z&period;jpg" alt&equals;"obama-saudi-arabia-2016-04-21t135204z" width&equals;"650" height&equals;"367" &sol;><em>Photo&colon; ReutersKevin Lamarque&sol;Reuters<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>President Obama speaks with Abu Dhabi&&num;8217&semi;s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council &lpar;GCC&rpar; in Riyadh&comma; Saudi Arabia&comma; April 21&comma; 2016&period; Could the documents potentially fracture the relationship between the allies&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<article>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-21386" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;58064-commissioner-co-chair-former-senator-bob-graham-gestures-dur&period;jpg" alt&equals;"58064-commissioner-co-chair-former-senator-bob-graham-gestures-dur" width&equals;"650" height&equals;"433" &sol;><&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Former Sen&period; Bob Graham &lpar;R-Fl&rpar;&period; Co-chair  joint Congressional inquiry&period; Wants documents released&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"a-module">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"a-image h"><span class&equals;"a-credit"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-21404" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;911&lowbar;20110223063937&lowbar;640&lowbar;480&period;jpg" alt&equals;"911&lowbar;20110223063937&lowbar;640&lowbar;480" width&equals;"675" height&equals;"506" &sol;><em>Photo&colon; Getty Images<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><strong>Brennan said that the classified pages may contain inaccurate information suggesting a Saudi link to the Sept&period; 11 attacks&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This chapter was kept out because of concerns about sensitive source of methods&comma; investigative actions&period; The investigation of 9&sol;11 was still underway in late 2002&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I&&num;8217&semi;m quite puzzled by Sen&period; Graham and others because what that joint inquiry did was to tee up issues that were followed up on by the 9&sol;11 Commission&comma; as well as the 9&sol;11 Review Commission&period; So these were thoroughly investigated and reviewed&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And they came out with a very clear judgment that there was no evidence that indicated that the Saudi government as an institution&comma; or Saudi officials individually&comma; had provided financial support to Al Qaeda&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added that the pages contain &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a combination of things that is accurate and inaccurate&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think some people may seize upon that uncorroborated&comma; un-vetted information that was in there&comma; that was basically just a collation of this information that came out of F&period;B&period;I&period; files&comma; and to point to Saudi involvement&comma; which I think would be very&comma; very inaccurate&comma;” Brennan said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<h5><em><strong>Lets us know what you think of this article&period; 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