The United States has confirmed it is open to declassifying more documents on September 11

The United States said Monday it would review its files on the 9/11 attacks to determine if it could further declassify, under pressure from relatives of the victims.

The announcement is coming three days after hundreds of survivors and relatives of the victims of the attacks asked the President of the United States, Joe Biden, not attending the 20th anniversary commemoration events next month, unless new material about what happened is released sooner.

“My government is committed to ensuring the highest degree of transparency possible under the law”Biden said in a statement.

The president assured that the US Department of Justice had promised on Monday to “To re-examine the documents” which the Government has kept confidential until now, “and to do so as quickly as possible”.

Biden did not say whether this review would end before the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks..

Several members of Congress and victims’ associations have for years called for more transparency on US documents on the attacks, who have refused to declassify all of the country’s presidents so far.

During your election campaign, Biden has vowed to release as much information as possible, but families of the victims say he has so far ignored their requests about it., Yes they are sure the government has documents that implicate Saudi officials in acts of terrorism.

In his statement, Biden acknowledged that relatives of those who died that day “They have been seeking justice and accountability for 20 years”, and that it “welcome” the demands of these activists.

But he also repeated that respect the guidelines established under the administration of Barack Obama (2009-2017) which make it possible to restrict the publication of documents if the Government considers that they disclose “state secrets”.

This lowers the expectations of a spectacular reveal, especially before the twentieth anniversary of the attacks is celebrated in barely a month.

Brett Eagleson, who lost his father Bruce in the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City, said last week that relatives of the victims are “frustrated, tired and saddened” by US government secrecy.

In an interview with the channel NBC News, Eagleson downplayed the possible effect of a review like the one Biden announced on Monday, saying his predecessors also announced the same investigations and used them as “delaying tactics”, but ended up “protecting the Saudi government”.

Around 3,000 people have been killed in attacks orchestrated by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, in Pennsylvania.

(With information from Europa Press)

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