US Senator Ron Johnson has said that the United States may officially start hearings into the September 11 attacks due to some unanswered questions surrounding the official narrative and handling of evidence.
On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. A third struck the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed due to fires ignited by debris from one of the nearby towers.
During an interview on Monday that went viral, Senator Johnson described a case surrounded by several unanswered questions, including the collapse of Building 7.
“I don’t know that you can find structural engineers, other than the ones that have the corrupt investigation inside NIST, that would say that that thing didn’t come down in any other way than a controlled demolition,” he said.
Johnson, who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, also criticised the removal and destruction of physical evidence from the site, calling it “totally contrary to any other firefighting investigation procedures.”
“Where’s all the documentation from the NIST investigation? There are a host of questions that I want and I will be asking, quite honestly, now that my eyes have been opened,” he added.
When asked if he was to make the hearings on 9/11 public, he replied, “I think so.” He further suggested that President Donald Trump, “being a New Yorker himself,” might have an interest in reopening the case.
“What happened on 9/11? What do we know? What is being covered up? My guess is an awful lot is being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
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He also said that Curt Weldon, a former congressman, plans to “work with him to expose what he’s willing to expose.”
Earlier this month, the congressman, Curt Weldon, urged Trump to appoint people with the highest integrity and uncompromisable character and integrity “to lead a commission to study the facts surrounding 9/11.”
The 9/11 Commission Report, released in 2004, remains the most comprehensive federal review of the attacks. However, critics have pointed to omissions and the continued classification of key government documents.
Johnson also referenced a bipartisan effort with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2023 to obtain unredacted FBI files. “We wanted to get those answers, those documents for the families. Again, we didn’t get squat from the FBI,” he said.
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