BEFORE THE 28 PAGES WERE RELEASED

Food Travel USA with Elizabeth Dougherty

Album: The TRUTH About Food and Travel

Original Broadcast Date: 01/27/2016

BEFORE THE 28 PAGES WERE RELEASED

On January 27, 2016, Elizabeth interviewed former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham.

At the time, 28 pages from the congressional investigation into the September 11 attacks remained classified.

Nobody outside a relatively small circle of government officials was allowed to read them.

Bob Graham had.

And he wanted the rest of us to see them.

Graham had served as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and co-chaired, with Florida Congressman Porter Goss, the Joint Congressional Inquiry into the intelligence failures surrounding September 11. This was separate from the later, much more highly politicized "9/11 Commission Report."  The Joint Inquiry completed its work in 2002, but an entire section dealing with possible sources of foreign support for some of the hijackers was withheld from the public.

Those became known simply as "the 28 pages."

When we spoke with Graham, they had been secret for nearly 13 years.