CIA chief expects release of classified 9/11 documents to clear Saudi Arabia

CIA Chief John Brennan said on Sunday that he expects 28 classified pages of a US congressional report on the 11 September 2001 attacks to be published, absolving Saudi Arabia of any responsibility.

“So these 28 pages I believe are going to come out and I think it’s good that they come out. People shouldn’t take them as evidence of Saudi complicity in the attacks,” Brennan said in an interview with Saudi-owned Arabiya TV.

“The 9/11 commission looked very thoroughly at these allegations of Saudi involvement … their conclusion was that there was no evidence to indicate that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually had supported the 9/11 attacks,” he said.

The Washington Times reported former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean and former Senator Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the congressional inquiry into the attacks, saying in April that investigators did not find any evidence to suggest that Saudi Arabia had any role in the attacks.