NEW YORK (Sputnik) – The Obama Administration is purposely ignoring the issue of declassifying 28 pages of a 9/11 report drafted in 2002 by the US Senate and House Intelligence Committees, founder and director of the activist website 28Pages.org Brian McGlinchey told Sputnik.
"The Obama administration clearly prefers to say as little as possible about the 28 pages," McGlinchy said.
Prompted by media coverage surrounding last year’s anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Obama Administration said it had asked the intelligence community to review the 28 pages for possible declassification. To date, there has been no update regarding the progress of the review.
"The pace of this alleged review of just 28 pages flies in the face of common sense and is frankly insulting to the intelligence of the American people," McGlinchy added.
Former US Senate Intelligence Committee chairman and co-author of the September 11 report, Bob Graham, has stated that the pages "point a strong finger" at the government of Saudi Arabia.
28Pages.org is a non-profit organization that advocates for the declassification of the intelligence report, according to the organization’s website.
"The issue is starting to become visible in the 2016 presidential campaign, as activists are asking candidates about the issue in town halls," McGlinchey told Sputnik.
McGlinchey went on to say that two US Senators, Linsey Graham and Ted Cruz, were forced to admit they haven’t even read the 28 pages themselves and Jeb Bush, whose brother famously classified the 28 pages, claimed he’d never even heard of them.
Presidential candidate Rand Paul, who introduced a Senate bill that would require the US president to release the 28 pages, became the first candidate to announce support for declassifying the report.
"Congressional leaders made some progress this summer," McGlinchey said.
