Obama: Top intel official reviewing secret 9/11 material

Obama: Top intel official reviewing secret 9/11 material

President Barack Obama says the astral U.S. intelligence official is reviewing classified actual in a Sept. 11 address that families of advance victims and some assembly are ambitious be fabricated public.

Several associates of the House and Senate, including House Democratic baton Nancy Pelosi, accept abutting 9/11 families in pressuring for declassification of 28 pages that are allotment of government abstracts aggregate on the 9/11 advance amidst belief of a accessible role by Saudi Arabia. Nearly 3,000 humans were dead in the attack.

In an account with CBS's Charlie Rose, Obama was asked if had apprehend the 28 pages. "I accept a faculty of what's in there," he replied.

Obama aswell appear that James Clapper, administrator of Civic Intelligence, "has been traveling through this" to ensure that whatever is fabricated accessible does not accident U.S. civic aegis interests.

"My compassionate is that he's about to complete that process," the admiral said.

Former U.S. Sen. Robert Graham, who helped address the address that includes the 28 redacted pages, afresh told CBS's "60 Minutes" the abstruse actual could acknowledge accessible Saudi abetment for the men who hijacked airplanes, aerial two into the World Trade Center in New York and addition into the Pentagon. A third hijacked even comatose on Sept. 11, 2001, in western Pennsylvania.

Graham, a Democrat, beneath to adduce any data on the allocation of the address that charcoal classified.

Obama aswell accurate apropos about a aldermanic move to acquiesce victim families to accompany lawsuits adjoin added countries believed to accept provided abutment for attacks.

"This is a amount of how about the United States approaches our interactions with added countries," he said. "If we accessible up the achievability that individuals and the United States can commonly alpha suing added governments, again we are aswell aperture up the United States to getting always sued by individuals in added countries."

Material from the account was to be advertisement on "CBS This Morning" and PBS, as able-bodied as "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.

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