WASHINGTON – President Biden on Friday ordered the review and possible publication of previously withheld government documents related to the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center that could shed new light on the role of accomplices in the plot. killed about 3,000 people. .
As the twentieth anniversary of the attacks approaches, Mr. Biden ordered the Department of Justice to consider declassifying additional material contained in some of the Federal Investigation Bureau’s case files from its investigation into the long-awaited attacks as part of a lawsuit filed by the families of 9/11 victims. The materials have been withheld after judicial disclosure for reasons of national security.