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I have an amazingly hard time believing that revelation was an "accident". I cannot believe with the number of people involved that they didn't catch the error

• AndrewBissell 6y ago
  The fact that they made a futile attempt to walk it back by withdrawing the filing makes me think it may have been a genuine error, but I do love the idea of some low level FBI grunt fed up with the system just "forgetting" to redact that one item.
• wahern 6y ago
  But nothing in this disclosure was unknown. As the article states, "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." There are no secrets in Washington, D.C., at least none that can last for years. All of this info leaked many years ago. The goal in formally censoring the details is simply to prevent legal action, and apparently officials across three administrations are convinced it would create too many diplomatic headaches. Without the official reports, these details are largely inadmissible hearsay in court, even if the whole world "knows". At this point I'd be surprised if the FBI had any information not already publicly available. Though, the lawyers leading the civil lawsuit are probably some of the few people with an intimate knowledge of all the details, notwithstanding that the details are contingent on some unknowns.