Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday trekked where President Joe Biden could not be found: Ground Zero and the 9/11 memorial.
And after meeting with family members of the victims of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, DeSantis also called for Biden to provide full disclosure of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the attacks.
The governor noted in a statement that he heard those families’ “heart-wrenching stories, the cherished memories of those they lost, and their strong commitment to never forgetting what happened on this hallowed ground twenty-two years ago.”
“Decades later, we as a nation still owe full transparency and accountability to these grieving families. Yet too many politicians have broken past promises to them, and that is wholly unacceptable,” DeSantis added.
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On one hand, said DeSantis, that means Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, and his cohorts must not get a plea deal that would keep key details of the attacks hidden.
“Avoiding a public trial denies victims the justice they deserve and allows others to evade scrutiny. I urge the administration to serve justice and send an unequivocal message that such attacks on American lives will never go unanswered,” DeSantis said.
Yet the governor added that those families won’t get full transparency unless Biden publicly commits to declassifying the remaining intelligence documents about the planning and financing of 9/11.
“As president, I will demand from each agency that they provide a detailed justification for every remaining redaction, and decide, in the interests of transparency, whether the public interest outweighs any potential harm in disclosure before making declassification and public release decisions,” said DeSantis. “I will end the federal government’s decades-long abuse of the classification system and will strive to be the most transparent administration in U.S. history.”
“We have shown in Florida that we can rise to the occasion to provide those who lost their lives on 9/11 the respect they deserve,” said DeSantis, pointing to a bill he enacted that designated Sept. 11 as “9/11 Heroes’ Day.”
The law requires teaching students the significance of 9/11 and information about the sacrifice of military personnel, government employees, civilians, and emergency responders who were killed, wounded, or suffered sickness due to the terrorist attacks.
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“The pain of 9/11 endures for these families and all of us who remember that day, and its history must be taught for generations to come,” DeSantis concluded.
“Our work is not done until we have fully brought to light all the details surrounding the attacks, and those responsible are held accountable. I will not rest until both are fully achieved. We must never forget.”
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who pulled off 9/11 were Saudis, as was Osama bin Laden.
Information released in the Trump years indicated that some of the villains may have support from Saudi officials closely connected with the ruling family.
As The Intercept reported in 2021, on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, evidence had emerged that two of the initial hijackers to come to America “had received logistical and financial support from a handful of people inside the United States with connections to Saudi Arabia, including a man in California whose family received tens of thousands of dollars from the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the United States.”
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