Joe Biden signs an executive order declassifying investigative documents

Joe Biden signs an executive order declassifying investigative documents

The Minister of Justice is scheduled to release the declassified documents “within the next six months.”

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It was a campaign promise. As the United States prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, US President Joe Biden signed a decree on Friday (September 3) to declassify the next six months of an investigation document.

Minister of Justice to publish confidential documents “Over the next six months”.

Families of 9/11 victims launched a legal battle against Saudi Arabia and other countries they accuse of complicity. During these actions, successive US governments invoked state secrecy in order not to publish certain documents.

At the beginning of August, families of victims, survivors of the attacks, and members of rescue teams posted a message telling them that the Democratic president would not be the same. “welcome” At the memorial service if he didn’t ‘He didn’t keep his promise’. The letter calls for the publication of all documents that reveal, according to the two signatories, Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the attacks.

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