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Previously classified 9/11 documents released by CIA on 25th anniversary of attacks

The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The document drop came the same day that 9/11 widow Terry Strada broke with the long-standing tradition of keeping politics out of Sept.

Previously classified 9/11 documents released by CIA on 25th anniversary of attacks

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The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

The document drop came the same day that 9/11 widow Terry Strada broke with the long-standing tradition of keeping politics out of Sept.

11 remembrances and called on President Donald Trump to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the attacks.

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The CIA released 71 declassified documents related to the 9/11 attacks on Friday, the 25th anniversary of deadly Al Qaeda terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The document drop came the same day that 9/11 widow Terry Strada broke with the long-standing tradition of keeping politics out of Sept. 11 remembrances and called on President Donald Trump to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the attacks.

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  • "Tell the Saudis to stop lying," said Strada, who lost her husband Tom during the attacks and raised their three children on her own.
  • "Vice President Vance thank you for being here today, please carry that messag...

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12, 2001, which is the day after the attacks. In a statement, CIA Director John Ratcliffe called it "the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever." "Americans can now see for themselves the intelligence leading up to this tragic day for our Nation," Ratcliffe said in a post on X. "Tell them if they want to be friends with the USA they cannot continue to deny all of this — all of the pain, all of the destruction that we have all been suffering through." Trump was at the memorial ceremony at the Pentagon, but Vice President JD Vance was in Lower Manhattan.

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