Will Joe Biden declassify secret 9/11 files under FBI review?

Victims' families say president not welcome at 20th anniversary memorial events unless the documents are released

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The families of 9/11 victims are piling pressure on Joe Biden to approve the release of long-classified documents believed to contain information about the terrorists who carried out the attacks.

In a court filing last week in a long-running lawsuit by the families against Saudi Arabia, the US Justice Department said the FBI had “recently” closed part of of its investigation into the attacks and “was beginning a review of documents that it had previously said must remain secret with an eye toward disclosing more of them”.

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