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>PIDB has now posted answers to questions from the public

3.) Question:

When will the 9/11 documents be released and where can the public view them at?

Answer:

As discussed at the PIDB Virtual Public Meeting of May 18, 2021, the publicly available records of the 9/11 Commission are legislative records held by The Center for Legislative Archives. For information about accessing these records, see the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) online catalog on NARA’s Research Our Records>9/11 Commission webpage.

In addition to these records, other records related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been released by Executive Branch agencies in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and are available online. For instance, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room has a webpage specifically dedicated to Declassified Documents Related to 9/11 Attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also has many declassified records related to the 9/11 terrorist attack on its FOIA Vault website.

hyperlinks

archives.gov/research/9-11

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/declassified-documents-related-911-attacks

https://vault.fbi.gov/

https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/28/the-pidb-responds-to-more-questions-received-at-the-virtual-public-meeting-of-may-18-2021/

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>PIDB has now posted answers to questions from the public

5.) Question:

What can we the people do to demand declassification?

We deserve to know what happened.

To add to this, the suppression of this information causes distrust of the American People.

Answer:

In its 2020 Report to the President, the PIDB reiterated its view that over-classification may undermine public confidence in the Federal Government, and even result in the proliferation of leaks that result in the unauthorized disclosure of legitimately classified national security information. To access classified information withheld by the Federal Government, citizens may submit a request for the Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) of classified information to a Federal agency. After an agency’s denial of an MDR request, the requestor can file an administrative appeal with the agency, which, if denied can be followed by an appeal to the ISCAP. The ISCAP is the highest appellate body for MDR decisions. In addition to submitting requests for MDRs, citizens may seek access to Government information by submitting FOIA requests to specific Federal agencies for specific information.

hyperlinks

https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/pidb/recommendations/pidb-vision-for-digital-age-may-2020.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/mdr-appeals.html

https://www.archives.gov/foia

https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/28/the-pidb-responds-to-more-questions-received-at-the-virtual-public-meeting-of-may-18-2021/

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>PIDB has now posted answers to questions from the public

7.) Question:

There is a 78-page monograph written by the 9/11 Commission in July 2004 entitled

“The National Security Council and Counterterrorism from 1998-9/11”

which has the dubious distinction of being the only 9/11 Commission monograph still not publicly available. NARA’s Center for Legislative Archives sent a declassification request to the NSC sometime before 2014 and it’s been the subject of a few MDR requests from private citizens since then, but nothing happens. Those requests seem to be sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere. I would like to know the presenters’ thoughts on this and ask the PIDB to step in and break this logjam.

Answer:

During the public meeting, the PIDB heard from a 9/11 Commissioner and the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. They learned that there are important records that remain classified. As part of their background briefings on the 9/11 Commission records, they also learned there are outstanding requests for declassification and public access. The PIDB will use this information to form part of their recommendations on prioritizing records of historical significance and interest.

https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/28/the-pidb-responds-to-more-questions-received-at-the-virtual-public-meeting-of-may-18-2021/

Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) offers the following responses

to questions received from the public, which it did not have time to answer during the Virtual Public Meeting last week, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021:

7 Questions total; anon thought these 3 were worth posting"

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3.) Question:

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>5.) Question:

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>7.) Question:

https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1398278182785191940

https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/05/28/the-pidb-responds-to-more-questions-received-at-the-virtual-public-meeting-of-may-18-2021/

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>Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB)

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>https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/pidb/recommendations/pidb-vision-for-digital-age-may-2020.pdf

44 page PDF

PIDB 2020 Report to the President