By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
As the monumental case titled In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 plods on toward a judge’s decisive ruling on whether Saudi Arabia should be dismissed as a defendant, lawyers on both sides are in a slugfest over what evidence the public should get to see.
At the same time, lawyers for the 9/11 survivors and families of the nearly 3,000 dead and 25,000 injured have once again accused the FBI of foot-dragging in response to judicial orders that it “make a compelling showing” to justify its document sealings and redactions of personal identifying information and other material.
Lawyers representing The New York Times, CBS News, CNN, NewsNation and the nonprofit news sites ProPublica and Florida Bulldog intervened in support of opening up the long-hidden evidence before a Wednesday hearing in federal court in New York.
During the three-hour hearing, New York Assistant Attorney General Sarah Normand said the 9/11 civil case has resulted in an unparalleled release of FBI records – many of which have yet to be released to the public.
“As far as we can tell, it’s unprecedented that the FBI would have produced the level of both the volume and the nature and the scope of material as it did in this case, including materials produced as a result of a declassification order by the President of the United States, which then resulted in the disclosure of yet more information,” she said.
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