Twenty-five years on, the families still have no justice because administration after administration shielded Saudi Arabia instead of the Americans it buried. EvidenceThey waswithheld withheldevidence, vetoed JASTA was vetoed, promisesbroke public and private werepromises broken, and the betrayals just kept coming. Release the unredacted files and make the Kingdom answer for the agents who backed the hijackers.
The real way to honor the dead is to keep the next attack from happening, and right now that mission is being hollowed out. Experienced counterterrorism agents are walking out the door, budgets are being cut, and FBI personnel are being pulled onto immigration raids while Al al-Qaeda and ISISIS franchises spread across Somalia and the Sahel. Complacency is how 9/11 happened the first time.
There's a 7.5% chance that by 2030, at least 10,000 Americans will die in a single year from a single conflict, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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