2026-09-14T18:16:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
密苏里州堪萨斯城——美国司法部长托德·布兰奇承诺，联邦政府将继续公布与2001年9月11日恐怖袭击相关的记录，并重申美国的立场：仍被扣留的文件并非为了保护沙特阿拉伯或其他任何国家的政府而被保密。
“我们绝对没有在保护任何人，”布兰奇在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻独家专访时表示。“我们不公布文件的原因与保护任何政府或任何实体毫无关系，只是为了保护真正的机密信息。”
布兰奇是在周一发表上述言论的。此前，“9·11”事件遇难者家属群体再次施压，其中一些人在周五纪念世贸中心袭击25周年的活动期间直接向特朗普政府提出上诉。他们呼吁公布未经过编辑的文件，并公开指责多届政府隐瞒了与沙特阿拉伯相关的证据。数千名“9·11”事件遇难者家属长期以来一直在针对沙特阿拉伯提起诉讼，指控该国可能为劫机者提供了支持。
通过这场诉讼，更多信息已经被披露。去年，《60分钟》节目报道了一项关于调查对象奥马尔·巴尤米的新证据，他曾与两名劫机者会面，并帮助他们在圣地亚哥找到住处。他声称自己是偶然结识他们的，但“9·11”事件遇难者家属认为他与两人以及沙特政府存在更深层次的联系。袭击发生数年后，家属们的诉讼促使一段巴尤米拍摄美国国会大厦入口、指出其相对于华盛顿纪念碑位置的视频被公开，视频中他还在某些时刻提及了一个“计划”。
除了国会大厦的视频，警方2001年还从巴尤米在英国的公寓中查获了一份飞机草图和一个数学公式，并将其移交给了联邦调查局。一名联邦调查局外勤调查员告诉《60分钟》，直到这些证据即将被归档或销毁时，他才得知其存在。他拿到证据后将其交给了航空专家，专家告诉他，飞行员可以利用这个公式计算俯冲速率，以击中地平线上的目标。这些证据从未被分享给参与该案的联邦调查局外勤特工，也从未被提交给高级情报官员。
长期以来，调查人员一直认为，美国联合航空公司93号航班的预定目标可能是国会大厦。该航班在乘客制服劫机者后坠毁在宾夕法尼亚州的一片田野中。
周日，在准备从爱尔兰返回华盛顿之际被问及遇难者家属的言论时，特朗普总统对记者表示：“我回去后会研究一下。”
布兰奇周一表示，更多的记录将被公开——不过这位美国最高执法官员并未公布具体时间表。
“有些文件被列为机密，但它们本不该如此，”布兰奇说。“这些就是我们将要公布的文件。”
当被问及仍在寻求答案的遇难者家属可以期待什么时，他直接对家属们说道：
“将会有更多的记录被公开，”布兰奇说。“所以，对于那些仍在寻找答案的家属们，我们也和你们一样在寻找答案。这就是我们将为他们提供的东西。”
“联合家属委员会”主席特里·斯特拉达的丈夫汤姆在世贸北塔遇难，她在年度遇难者姓名纪念诵读活动中公开指责往届政府未能为寻求信息的家属提供帮助，以查明沙特阿拉伯与袭击者可能存在的关联。
“25年来，一届又一届政府，包括今天在场的各位领导人，都选择保护沙特人，而非站在‘9·11’事件遇难者家属这边，”斯特拉达说。
斯特拉达在纽约的纪念仪式上直接向特朗普政府提出上诉，请求副总统J·D·万斯将家属们的诉求带回华盛顿。她敦促副总统就沙特阿拉伯的否认态度向该国施压，称25年来政府对该问题的处理方式是“一次又一次的背叛”。
在马克·麦克伦公司任职的高管丽莎·玛丽·特里在世贸中心遇难，她的侄子在麦克风前直接向特朗普先生呼吁：
“特朗普总统，您是我们最后的希望。”
二十多年来，外界一直存在诸多疑问：两名劫机者抵达加利福尼亚州后得到了哪些援助？与沙特政府有关联的人是否在他们的行程中提供过帮助？
19名劫机者中有15人是沙特国民，但沙特阿拉伯多次否认其政府直接参与了袭击。
2004年，“9·11”委员会认定没有证据表明沙特阿拉伯作为一个机构或沙特高级官员个人资助了基地组织，但同时也写道，其调查结果并未排除这样一种可能性：得到沙特政府大力资助的慈善机构可能将资金转移给了基地组织。
2025年8月，美国地区法官乔治·B·丹尼尔斯驳回了沙特阿拉伯要求驳回诉讼的请求，认定家属们已经提供了足够的证据，可以继续审理此案，其中包括涉及沙特国民奥马尔·巴尤米和法哈德·图迈里的证据，以及2000年1月劫机者纳瓦夫·哈兹米和哈利德·米赫达尔抵达加利福尼亚州后获得的援助相关证据。
周五，中央情报局公布了一批新的与“9·11”事件相关的情报，中情局局长约翰·拉特克利夫解密了71份总统每日简报，时间跨度从袭击发生前数年直至袭击当天。该机构称这是单次解密“9·11”相关中情局总统简报材料中规模最大的一次。这些文件包含对奥萨马·本·拉登和基地组织的不同评估，以及关于可能发生袭击的预警信息。
不过，最近公布的这些文件并非家属们所要求的、与沙特阿拉伯关联相关的核心记录。
布兰奇表示，部分文件仍因合法的国家安全原因处于保密状态，但他驳斥了政府为庇护其他国家而隐瞒材料的说法。
“我们并不是在向美国民众隐瞒记录，”布兰奇在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道。
Blanche vows to release more 9/11 documents: “We’re not protecting people”
2026-09-14T18:16:00-0400 / CBS News
Kansas City, Missouri— Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed that the federal government will continue releasing records related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, doubling down on U.S. assertions that documents still being withheld are not being kept secret to protect Saudi Arabia or any other government.
“The one thing that we are not doing, we’re not protecting people,” Blanche said in an exclusive interview with CBS News. “The reason that we’re not releasing documents has nothing to do with protecting any government or any entity. It’s just to protect, genuine classified [information].”
Blanche weighed in Monday, following renewed pressure from 9/11 family members, some of whom appealed directly to the Trump administration during Friday’s commemoration marking the 25th year since the Ground Zero attacks. They called for the release of unredacted documents, publicly accusing successive administrations of withholding evidence related to Saudi Arabia. Thousands of 9/11 family members have pursued a long-running lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for possibly providing support to the hijackers.
As a result of their lawsuit, more information has come to light already. Last year, a “60 Minutes” report revealed new evidence about one figure in the investigation, Omar al-Bayoumi, who met two of the hijackers and helped them find housing in San Diego. He claimed he met them by chance, but the 9/11 families believe he has deeper ties to them and to the Saudi government. Years after the attack, the families’ lawsuit resulted in the release of a video of al-Bayoumi filming the entrances of the U.S. Capitol and pointing out its location relative to the Washington Monument, and at some points referencing a “plan.”
In addition to the Capitol video, an airplane sketch and math formula were also seized from Bayoumi’s U.K. apartment and turned over to the FBI in 2001. One FBI field investigator told “60 Minutes” he didn’t know about the sketch until it was about to be archived or destroyed. When he obtained it, he took it to aviation experts, who told him a pilot could use the formula to calculate the rate of descent to hit a target on the horizon. The evidence had never been shared with the FBI field agents who worked on the case or with top intelligence officials.
Investigators have long believed the Capitol may have been the intended target of Flight 93, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers overtook the hijackers.
Asked Sunday about the families’ remarks as he prepared to return to Washington from Ireland, President Trump told reporters, “I’m going to look at it when I get back.”
Blanche said Monday that additional records would be made public — though the nation’s top law enforcement official did not provide a timeline.
“Sometimes there’s documents that are classified and they shouldn’t be,” Blanche said. “And so those are the ones that we’re going to release.”
Asked what families still seeking answers should expect, he addressed the families directly.
“There’ll be more records coming out,” Blanche said. “And so, to the families that are still looking for answers, we are, too. And that’s what we’re going to deliver to them.”
Terry Strada, chair of Families United, whose husband, Tom, was killed in the North Tower on 9/11, took a moment during the annual commemorative reading of victims’ names to call out past administrations for failing families seeking information about possible Saudi links to the attackers.
“For 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families,” Strada said.
Strada appealed directly to the Trump administration, asking Vice President JD Vance at the New York ceremony to take the families’ message back to Washington. She urged the vice president to press Saudi Arabia over its denials, describing the government’s handling of the issue over the 25 years as “one betrayal after another.”
The nephew of Lisa Marie Terry, a Marsh McLennan executive killed in the World Trade Center, appealed directly to Mr. Trump during his turn at the microphone.
“President Trump, you’re our last hope,” he said.
For more than two decades, questions have swirled around what assistance two of the hijackers received after arriving in California and whether people connected to the Saudi government played any role in their travel.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudi nationals, though Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied that its government was directly involved.
In 2004, the 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded al Qaeda, but also wrote that its findings left open the possibility that charities with meaningful Saudi government sponsorship had diverted funds to al Qaeda.
In August 2025, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels denied Saudi Arabia’s effort to have the claims thrown out, finding instead that families had presented sufficient evidence for the case to proceed, including evidence concerning Saudi nationals Omar al-Bayoumi and Fahad al-Thumairy, plus aid offered to hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar following their arrival in California in January 2000.
On Friday, the CIA released a new tranche of 9/11-related intelligence, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassifying 71 President’s Daily Brief products dating from the years before the attacks through the day afterward. The agency referred to it as the largest single release of declassified CIA presidential briefing material related to 9/11. The documents include varying assessments of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda and warnings about possible attacks.
Still, those recently released documents are not the same records at the center of the families’ demands concerning possible Saudi connections.
Blanche said some records remain classified for legitimate national security reasons but rejected the suggestion that the government is withholding material to shield another country.
“It’s not as if we’re keeping records from the American people,” Blanche told CBS News.
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