--- title: Read the 28 Once-Classified Pages From the 9/11 Report description: Congress released the long classified documents on Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4408535/911-report-classified-pages-read/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-15T18:52:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:17:47.394Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the 28 Once-Classified Pages From the 9/11 Report og:description: Congress released the long classified documents on Friday og:url: https://time.com/4408535/911-report-classified-pages-read/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be565f010ec8440/698761e73c163971e444f2bf/banksy-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Banksy - 911 Tribute in TriBeCa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the 28 Once-Classified Pages From the 9/11 Report twitter:description: Congress released the long classified documents on Friday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be565f010ec8440/698761e73c163971e444f2bf/banksy-002.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the 28 Once-Classified Pages From the 9/11 Report > Sponsored content. 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Nancy Kaszerman—Zumapress/Corbis by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jul 15, 2016 6:52 PM UTC The U.S. government released a once classified section of the report about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Friday. The House Intelligence Committee voted to release the pages, [which are part of a larger 2002 investigation into the 9/11 attacks](http://time.com/4408496/congress-911-report-classified-chapter-saudi-arabia/). This newly released section questions the Saudi government’s involvement with the hijackers and those who orchestrated the attacks. Later investigations found no link between the Saudi Arabia and those who carried out the attack. President George W. Bush had the chapter classified to protect intelligence sources and methods, the Associated Press reports. 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