#brett eagleson

[willpollock]

Your assumptions about 9/11 attacks are about to turn on a dime [BLOG SERIES]

"a new filing in a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims against Saudi Arabia alleges that al-Qaeda had significant, indeed decisive, state support for its attacks" https://t.co/1OPAtmvxZg pic.twitter.com/uEaA6PSYbn — Will's Media Reform School #DoBetter ⚖️ 🌻 (@bywillpollock) May 26, 2024 This is Part 1 of a 3-part blog series, exclusively on CrankyYank.com Conventional wisdom is rarely…

[parttimereporter]

New 9/11 related video alleges 'secret' new evidence against hijackers

Brett Eagleson, who was 15 years old when his dad, Bruce, died while working at the Twin Towers on 9/11, said “The public needs to see this.”

Eagleson tells the Boston Herald that lawyers have obtained a video that allegedly shows a Saudi suspect “casing the Capitol” in the summer of 1999, pointing out where Congress sits. Eagleson also says a companion sketchbook painstakingly shows “an aviator’s algorithm on how to hit a target on the horizon when flying a plane.”

Federal Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York now holds the key to this case. The judge must decide whether this lawsuit against Saudi Arabia moves ahead or is forever thwarted.

DEVELOPING..

[creepingsharia]

FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers

WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a  mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers.  

The disclosure came in a new declaration filed in federal court by a senior FBI official in response to a lawsuit brought by families of 9/11 victims that accuses the Saudi government of complicity in the terrorist attacks.  

The declaration was filed last month but unsealed late last week. According to a spokesman for the 9/11 victims’ families, it represents a major breakthrough in the long-running case, providing for the first time an apparent confirmation that FBI agents investigating the attacks believed they had uncovered a link between the hijackers and the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

It’s unclear just how strong the evidence is against the former Saudi Embassy official — it’s been a subject of sharp dispute within the FBI for years. But the disclosure, which a senior U.S. government official confirmed was made in error, seems likely to revive questions about potential Saudi links to the 9/11 plot. 

It also shines a light on the extraordinary efforts by top Trump administration officials in recent months to prevent internal documents about the issue from ever becoming public.  

“This shows there is a complete government cover-up of the Saudi involvement,” said Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families whose father was killed in the attacks. “It demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command that’s coming from the Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs [in Los Angeles] to the hijackers.”

Still, Eagleson acknowledged he was flabbergasted by the bureau’s slip-up in identifying the Saudi Embassy official in a public filing. Although Justice Department lawyers had last September notified lawyers for the 9/11 families of the official’s identity, they had done so under a protective order that forbade the family members from publicly disclosing it. 

Now, the bureau itself has named the Saudi official. “This is a giant screwup,” Eagleson said.

After being contacted by Yahoo News on Monday, Justice Department officials notified the court and withdrew the FBI’s declaration from the public docket. “The document was incorrectly filed in this case,” the docket now reads. 

But FBI and Justice Department officials declined to comment on how the erroneous disclosure had been made. A Saudi government spokesman, meanwhile, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. 

The Saudi government has consistently denied any connection to the 9/11 hijackers, telling the New York Times and ProPublica in January: “Saudi Arabia is and has always been a close and critical ally of the U.S. in the fight against terrorism.” 

Ironically, the declaration identifying the Saudi official in question was intended to support recent filings by Attorney General William Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell barring the public release of the Saudi official’s name and all related documents, concluding they are “state secrets” that, if disclosed, could cause “significant harm to the national security.”

The declaration was filed by Jill Sanborn, the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division. Her declaration fleshes out some of the assertions Barr and Grenell have used in their filings, arguing that publicly disclosing internal FBI files — including “interview reports, telephone and bank records, source reporting documents and foreign government information” — would reveal intelligence sources and methods of collection and would hamper the willingness of foreign governments to assist the FBI on sensitive cases.

But while Sanborn’s 40-page declaration blacks out the Saudi official’s name in most instances, in one it failed to do so — a discrepancy first noted this week by a Yahoo News reporter. 

In a portion describing the material sought by lawyers for the 9/11 families, Sanborn refers to a partially declassified 2012 FBI report about an investigation into possible links between the al-Qaida terrorists and Saudi government officials. That probe, the existence of which has only become public in the past few years, initially focused on two individuals: Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic Affairs official and radical cleric who served as the imam of the King Fahd Mosque in Los Angeles and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi government agent who assisted two terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who participated in the hijacking of the American Airlines plane that flew into the Pentagon, killing 125.

After the two hijackers flew to Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000, al-Bayoumi found them an apartment, lent them money and set them up with bank accounts.

A redacted copy of a three-and-a-half page October 2012 FBI “update” about the investigation stated that FBI agents had uncovered “evidence” that Thumairy and Bayoumi had been “tasked” to assist the hijackers by yet another individual whose name was blacked out, prompting lawyers for the families to refer to this person as “the third man” in what they argue is a Saudi-orchestrated conspiracy.

Describing the request by lawyers for the 9/11 families to depose that individual under oath, Sanborn’s declaration says in one instance that it involves “any and all records referring to or relating to Jarrah.”

The reference is to Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, a mid-level Saudi Foreign Ministry official who was assigned to the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1999 and 2000. His duties apparently included overseeing the activities of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees at Saudi-funded mosques and Islamic centers within the United States. 

Relatively little is known about Jarrah, but according to former embassy employees, he reported to the Saudi ambassador in the United States (at the time Prince Bandar), and that he was later reassigned to the Saudi missions in Malaysia and Morocco, where he is believed to have served as recently as last year.

Jarrah has been on the radar screen of the lawyers for the 9/11 families for some time and is among nine current or former Saudi officials who they suspect have important information about the case and have sought to either question them or get access to FBI documents that mention them.

The families have also tapped former agents to help investigate the activities of the potential witnesses, including Jarrah. 

Jarrah “was responsible for the placement of Ministry of Islamic Affairs employees known as guides and propagators posted to the United States, including Fahad Al Thumairy,” according to a separate declaration by Catherine Hunt, a former FBI agent based in Los Angeles who has been assisting the families in the case. 

Hunt conducted her own investigation into the support provided to the hijackers in Southern California. “The FBI believed that al-Jarrah was ‘supporting’ and ‘maintaining’ al-Thumairy during the 9/11 investigation,” she said in her declaration.

The Sanborn declaration represents the first public confirmation that the so-called “third man” referred to in the 2012 report was in fact an accredited Saudi diplomat. But all of the FBI evidence the agents had gathered about Jarrah and his communications about the hijackers remain under seal. 

Elsewhere in her declaration, Sanborn asserts that the contention that Jarrah “tasked” Thumairy and Bayoumi with assisting the hijackers was more a “theory” of the agents working the case rather than a conclusion based on hard evidence.

One former bureau official familiar with the FBI investigation into the matter, and who asked to speak confidentially, says that agents had developed strong evidence of meetings and communications among Jarrah, Thumairy and Bayoumi in which assistance to Mihdhar and Hazmi, the two hijackers, was believed to have been discussed. 

But the agents were unable to prove that Jarrah, who the agents found had flown to Los Angeles to meet with Thumairy, knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi were members of al-Qaida and were plotting the attacks on U.S. soil, resulting in bitter divisions within the bureau about what to make of the contacts the agents had uncovered.

“We just didn’t have enough evidence” to move the case forward, said the former official. 

Complicating the question is whether FBI agents would ever get an opportunity to question and potentially confront Jarrah. “There was no reason to believe the Saudis would ever give us access to him,” said the former official. 

Over time, with the rise of the Islamic State in 2014 and 2015, senior bureau officials grew weary of the issue and reassigned most of the top counterterrorism agents working on the case to what were viewed as more pressing priorities.  

“There were definitely people at FBI headquarters who wanted this closed,” the former official said.

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Read it all and remember this: While president, Obama vetoed a 9/11 bill but was overrode in the House AND Senate, overwhelmingly:

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.

The 97-1 vote marks the first time the Senate has mustered enough support to overrule Obama’s veto pen.

For more background, also read How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11

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The move comes after President Donald Trump promised to help families, who accuse Saudi Arabia of complicity in the attacks. Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret without putting national security at risk.

Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret.

In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security.

But the administration insisted in court filings that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret....

"The extraordinary lengths that they're going to here suggest that there must be some deep, dark secret that they're still trying very hard to hide after almost 20 years," said a lawyer for the families, Steven Pounian. "But who are they protecting? Something might be a Saudi government secret. But how can these be secrets that still need to be kept from the American people after all this time?"...

At a ceremonial gathering at the White House last Sept. 11, representatives of the families of those killed in the attacks repeatedly asked Trump for fuller access to the FBI's secret files in the case. According to more than a half-dozen people who were at the meeting, he assured several of them he would help.

"He looked us in the eye on 9/11, he shook our hands in the White House and said, 'I'm going to help you -- it's done,'" recalled one of those present, Brett Eagleson, a banker whose father was killed in the World Trade Center. "I think the 9/11 families have lost all hope that the president is going to step up and do the right thing. He's too beholden to the Saudis."

[beepbeepvroomhonk]

country songs for when you’re in love

speechless - Dan + Shay

better when I do - Aaron Pritchett

night shift - John Pardi

heaven - Kane Brown

when you look like that - Thomas Rhett

take it from me - Jordan Davis

got your name on it - Jade Eagleson

the difference - Tyler Rich

like you never had it - Florida Georgia Line

something ‘bout you - Sir Rosevelt

look at you - Seth Ennis

eyes on you - Chase Rice

this is it - Scotty McCreery

beautiful - Walker Hayes

she’s with me - High Valley

anthem - Brett Kissel

h.o.l.y. - Florida Georgia Line

t-shirt - Thomas Rhett

autograph - Dallas Smith

hometown girl - Josh Turner

ring on every finger - LOCASH

round the clock - Dan + Shay

airwaves - Brett Kissel

star of the show - Thomas Rhett

yours - Russel Dickerson

simple - Florida Georgia Line

obsessed - Dan + Shay

take back home girl - Chris Lane

[streamingfanatic1963]

9/11 families call Trump and LIV golfers ‘cowards’ over Saudi-backed tournament | The Independent

[don-lichterman]

LIV golf finally draw attention to Saudi ties to 9/11 attacks

LIV golf finally draw attention to Saudi ties to 9/11 attacks

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Brett Eagleson stood on a patch of dried grass on Friday morning, his voice rising as he attempted to out-shout the snort and screech of trucks on Route 206. He smiled, though. Eagleson, of Middletown, Connecticut, who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks and has spent much of the last 21 years raising his voice to draw the public’s eye to the increasingly credible evidence of…

[occupyhades]

'He's basically dead to them': 9/11 family member says Trump is 'hemorrhaging support' due to Saudi golf tournament - RawStory.com

Brett Eagleson, the founder and president of the advocacy organization 9/11 Justice, tore into former President Donald Trump on Friday for hosting a golf tournament funded by the Saudi government at his Bedminster resort.

[memesnotwelcome]

"[Trump] is hemorrhaging support by aligning himself with an evil kingdom... What dollar amount is enough?"

Brett Eagleson, 9/11 families group

He doesn't care about your support. He got your vote when he wanted it; he got your money when he needed it. You fell for it when everyone in the Tristate area was telling you this is who Trump is. But since you're trying to shame him, my guess is you still haven't figured it out yet.

[usnewsrank]

LIV tees off in Oregon, Sept. 11 families protest

LIV tees off in Oregon, Sept. 11 families protest

NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — LIV Golf’s first U.S. event was set to begin Thursday, with a group of survivors and families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terror attacks planning to gather at a nearby park to speak out against the Saudi Arabia-funded tour. Brett Eagleson was 15 years old when he lost his father in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that…

[gonefishing712]

Dylan Scott - Makin' This Boy Go Crazy

Brett Eldredge - Drunk On Your Love

Tim McGraw - My Best Friend

Dan + Shay - Keeping Score feat. Kelly Clarkson

Dan + Shay - Speechless

Jade Eagleson - She Don’t Know

Matt Stell - Prayed For You

Luke Combs - Forever After All

Russell Dickerson - Yours

Dylan Scott - My Girl

Scotty McCreery - You Time

Luke Combs - Beautiful Crazy

Russell Dickerson - She Likes It (feat. Jake Scott)

Brad Paisley - She's Everything

[trailinlife85]

Music Survey (69 Questions)

Open your music library, Put it on shuffle, Press play. For every question, type the song that’s playing. When you go to a new question, press the next button.

1. Which song describes the mood you are in right now? Don't Wanna Write This Song - Brett Young

2. Which song describes the mood you are usually in? I Do Too - The Reklaws

3. Which song describes one of your favorites things to do? Knowing You - Kenny Chesney

4. Which song describes something else you like to do? First Comes Love - George Fox

5. Which song explains the way you think about love? Cattleman's Gun - Dean Brody

6. What would you sing to your soulmate right now? If I'm Not Here Tomorrow - Brea Lawrenson

7. Which song best represents you? Seven Spanish Angels - George Canyon

8. Which song describes your sexual preference? If I Told You - Darius Rucker

9. Which song describes what would occur between you and a (male) prostitute? Raised By The Radio - The Reklaws

10. Your lover on the side? What A Song Can Do - Lady A

11. How about your wife or husband? Cowgirls Don't Cry - Brooks & Dunn feat. Reba McEntire

12. Which song would be played at your wedding? One Margarita - Luke Bryan

13. Which song would be played at your wedding reception? Love Is A Rose - Terri Clark

14. Which song describes yourself in the future? Bring Down The House - Dean Brody

15. Which song describes yourself in the past? You Didn't - Brett Young

16. Which song would be appropriate for a one night stand? Truth About You - Mitchell Tenpenny

17. Which song would best describe your first time kissing? If I Didn't Love You - Jason Aldean feat. Carrie Underwood

18. Your first time having sex? Dirt Road In 'Em - Aaron Pritchett

19. Which song would best describe your fashion sense? Devil's Grin - Cory Marks

20. Which song would describe your taste in the opposite or same sex? Time For Letting Go - Billy Ray Cyrus

21. Which song best describes your parents? Alberta Bound - Paul Brandt

22. Which song best describes your family in general? Ain't That Kind Of Cowboy - Trace Adkins

23. Which song best describes your friends? Here On Earth - Tim McGraw

24. Which song best describes your school? Wildflower - Dean Brody

25. Which song best describes your public personality? Meanwhile Back At Mamas - Tim McGraw feat. Faith Hill

26. Which song best describes your private personality? Things That Matter - Rascal Flatts

27. The weather outside is... Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

28. I feel like... Time - Dean Brody

29. I would really love to... Dear Me - Brett Young

30. No one can stop me from... Takin' It As It Comes - Randall King

31. Today I will... Because Of You-Kelly Clarkson feat. Reba McEntire

32. Love is like... Wild As Me - Meghan Patrick

33. I would call myself... Brothers - Dean Brody

34. I've never been to... Words By Heart-Billy Ray Cyrus

35. If I were a... Never Wanted To Be That Girl - Carly Pearce feat. Ashley McBryde

36. Never forget... Humble And Kind - Tim McGraw

37. No one believes me when... More Drinkin' Than Fishin' - Jade Eagleson feat. Dean Brody

38. I would never... She Ain't Mine No More - Justin Moore

39. I could see myself as... Trail In Life-Dean Brody

40. I'm as fun as... Blueberry Sky - Dean Brody

41. I wish... Monterey-Dean Brody

42. He will never understand why... Last Call - The Reklaws

43. I'm nearly... Watching You - Rodney Atkins

44. I want to see... Always You - Dean Brody

45. At night time... Without A Fight-Brad Paisley feat. Demi Lovato

46. My fashion sense is... When I Get Where I'm Going-Brad Paisley feat. Dolly Parton

47. I cry when... Forever After All - Luke Combs

48. The moon is... Not Ready To Make Nice-Dixie Chicks

49. I get tired when... We Owned The Night-Lady Antebellum

50. I lack... I'm Moving On - Terri Clark feat. Dean Brody

51. I'm so absorbing in... I Do - Morgan Evans

52. I should be... Islands In The Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

53. I can't seem to forget... Sometimes-Britney Spears

54. Where in the world is... Baby I'm Burnin' - Dolly Parton

55. I don't want to hear... Ways To Miss You - Tyler Braden

56. Don't give up on... 9 To 5 - Dolly Parton

57. I should give up on... Hate You Like I Love You - Granger Smith

58. I want to be... Walk Tall - Ginger Minj

59. I like a lot of... Bush Party-Dean Brody

60. I often think about... Wish You'd Miss Me - Chase Wright

61. I don't understand why... Highway Don't Care-TIm McGraw, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban

62. Guys are... Amarillo-George Strait

63. Girls go to... Helping Me Get Over You - Travis Tritt and Lari White

64. I'm in trouble for... Drink About Me - Brett Kissel

65. Candy is for... Dancing Away With My Heart-Lady Antebellum

66. Take me to... Fighting - Tyler Joe Miller

67. All I've ever cared about was... Forever Country-Artists Then and Now

68. Take me away from... Crop Circles-Dean Brody

69. The worst possible thing is... Drunk On You-Luke Bryan

[don-lichterman]

LIV golf finally draw attention to Saudi ties to 9/11 attacks

LIV golf finally draw attention to Saudi ties to 9/11 attacks

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Brett Eagleson stood on a patch of dried grass on Friday morning, his voice rising as he attempted to out-shout the snort and screech of trucks on Route 206. He smiled, though. Eagleson, of Middletown, Connecticut, who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks and has spent much of the last 21 years raising his voice to draw the public’s eye to the increasingly credible evidence of…

[politicalbombshow]

September 11 families tell Biden to stay away from 20th anniversary events

September 11 families tell Biden to stay away from 20th anniversary events

The 9/11 families are telling President Biden to stay away from 20th anniversary events at Ground Zero unless he backs their push to expose suspected Saudi links to the terror attacks. “If he doesn’t do something to uncover Saudi involvement he should stay away,” Brett Eagleson, who lost his father on 9/11 as the Twin Towers toppled, told the Herald Friday evening. “I want him in this fight, but…

[topdiyhub]

Man whose father was killed in 9/11 signs letter urging Biden to stay away from memorials: ‘Insult to injury’

Brett Eagleson told ‘Fox & Friends’ that Biden needs to declassify information regarding Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks or stay away from memorial events via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/37oBT7p

[alaturkanews]

9/11 families sign letter asking Biden not to attend memorials events

9/11 families sign letter asking Biden not to attend memorials events

Brett Eagleson told ‘Fox & Friends’ that Biden needs to declassify information regarding Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks or stay away from memorial events Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vaBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering…