US Senator Rand Paul has joined a group of bipartisan lawmakers promoting legislation to force President Barack Obama to publish a classified document which reportedly implicates Saudi Arabia as a financier of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, is sponsoring the “Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act,” which would require the White House to declassify and make public the 28-page report that some say will show that Saudi Arabia financed the 9/11 attacks.
The 28 pages are part of a larger Congressional report on 9/11 intelligence released in 2002 called the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Paul appeared at a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday along with a bipartisan group of House of Representatives lawmakers, as well as members of the group 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism, according to the Washington Post.
“We cannot let page after page of blanked-out documents be obscured by a veil, leaving these family members to wonder if there is additional information surrounding these horrible acts,” Paul said at the press conference.