The order says agencies cannot keep information classified if there's "significant doubt" about the need to do so."Nor shall information remain classified in order to conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error or to prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency,” it says.
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Relatives of Americans who were killed on 9/11 have spent years pushing successive administrations to release classified information that they believe will reveal Saudi Arabia’s complicity in the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Some had even said they did not want Biden to attend any memorial events unless he moved to release the long-sought documents.
"We are thrilled to see the president forcing the release of more evidence about Saudi connections to the 9/11 Attacks," Terry Strada, whose husband died in the World Trade Center’s North Tower, said in a statement Friday. "We have been fighting the FBI and intelligence community for too long, but this looks like a true turning point."
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