A 9/11 Lawsuit No One Is Talking About Reveals Deep Saudi Complicity

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

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This week Matt shares a mostly under-the-radar story which has completely changed his understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.

As the 23rd anniversary of the attacks approaches, a mountain of information emerging from lawsuits filed by 9/11 families has revealed far more extensive ties between both al-Qaeda and at least two of the hijackers to the Saudi government than were ever previously known. Why has justice taken so long? How does the law even allow this suit to proceed, and why did Congress have to override Barack Obama’s veto to allow it to move forward? Why has some of the best journalism about this lawsuit been from Golf Digest? And has the time come for a second 9/11 commission to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the day that changed everything?

Complaint in Ashton v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (filed March 20, 2017)
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/10/24)
Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/7/24)
Blood, Oil and Golf: The emergence of LIV Golf highlights the Kingdom’s troubling influence Alan Shipnuck, Golf Digest (8/19/2022)
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity, Daniel Benjamin and Stephen Simon, The Atlantic (5/20/24)
“The Declassified 28 Pages,” 28Pages.org
60 Minutes excerpt which includes Omar Al Bayoumi’s 1999 video of the US Capitol (6/20/2024)

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0:00.0	Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:23.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:28.0	Fuck them, though.
0:32.0	One count of being a bear and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.0	I hate the Supreme Court. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:46.0	This is episode of 1061.
0:48.0	I'm Thomas Smith.
0:49.0	That over there is real life lawyer, Matt Cameron, how you doing?
0:52.0	Thomas, I'm excited to talk about something I just have not seen covered enough.
0:55.2	Yeah you know the legal system moves slowly but how are we just having updates on a 9-11 lawsuit now?
1:06.7	Let me do some math, 23-ish years later.
1:09.4	Yeah, coming up on the 23rd anniversary
1:11.7	in a few weeks here. I have any number of reasons we might get into as to why we haven't heard that much about
1:15.1	it, but there has been not too much long-form journal was about this.
1:18.6	There's been some basic mainstream coverage, but was in Golf Digest,
1:25.0	where it was in Golf Digest,
1:28.0	usually where I go for my anti-terrorism news.
1:30.0	Is it because of the Saudi League that they're doing?
1:33.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:34.7	They did a very long piece about that and they explained in detail about the claims that the
1:38.0	families had just to really underscore this.
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