# 9/11 Commission > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "9/11 Commission," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/9-11-commission/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The federal commission of inquiry into the September 11 attacks, which John Kiriakou describes as structurally incapable of reaching the truth because it was barred from interviewing serving CIA officers or any Guantanamo detainee, and was blocked by the CIA from pursuing the Saudi thread.* - **Barred from interviewing:** Serving CIA officers; Guantanamo detainees - **Kiriakou's verdict:** "What kind of commission was the 9/11 Commission if it was not permitted to interview CIA officers?" - **Blocked lines of inquiry:** The [Saudi role](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/saudi-princes-and-9-11), including [Omar al-Bayoumi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/omar-al-bayoumi) - **Kiriakou's remedy:** A new commission, to settle the outstanding questions and kill the false ones The **9/11 Commission** is, in [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s account, an inquiry that was fixed before it began. Its information came to it *"in a trickle"*: it was not allowed to interview anybody from [Guantanamo](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/guantanamo-bay), and it was not allowed to interview any [CIA](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia) officers.[1][2] Because no Guantanamo detainee was interviewed, no al-Qaeda fighter or leader in American custody was ever questioned by the commission at all.[3][4] ## The blocked Saudi thread Kiriakou ties the restriction directly to what went uninvestigated. He asks why [Omar al-Bayoumi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/omar-al-bayoumi) was at President Bush's Crawford ranch before the attacks with Crown Prince Abdullah, and why al-Bayoumi then excused himself from that meeting to go outside and telephone the hijackers, and answers that it was never investigated *"because the CIA wouldn't let us investigate it. The CIA wouldn't let the 9/11 Commission investigate it."*[5] The rhetorical question he puts to the room follows from it: *"What kind of commission was the 9/11 Commission if it was not permitted to interview CIA officers? Or if it was not permitted to interview prisoners at Guantanamo? What did they just fill in the blanks by making it up?"*[6] ## The case for a second commission Kiriakou supports reopening the investigation, and frames a new commission as useful in two directions at once. It would allow the outstanding questions about the [Saudi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/saudi-princes-and-9-11) and [Israeli](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israeli-foreknowledge-of-9-11) roles to be put properly; it would also lay to rest what he calls the more outrageous rumours that have taken hold in the vacuum, that the Pentagon was struck by a missile rather than an airliner, watched by ten thousand people sitting in rush-hour traffic, or that the aircraft were empty and their passengers executed at an air force base.[2][7] Twenty-four years on, his summary is that the truth about 9/11 is still not known, and that neither the Israeli nor the Saudi role can be known *"because we're not allowed to investigate it."*[8] ## See also - [Saudi princes and 9/11](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/saudi-princes-and-9-11) - [Omar al-Bayoumi](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/omar-al-bayoumi) - [Guantanamo Bay](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/guantanamo-bay) - [Israeli foreknowledge of 9/11](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/israeli-foreknowledge-of-9-11) ## Sources 1. In Confidence: A Private Conversation with John Kiriakou (2026-01-13), at 1:02:11. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuKrdCf-ds&t=3731s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-13-covertaction-magazine/ 2. In Confidence: A Private Conversation with John Kiriakou (2026-01-13), at 1:02:41. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuKrdCf-ds&t=3761s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-13-covertaction-magazine/ 3. LIVE: Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou on Venezuela, 9/11 (2026-01-05), at 30:48. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0GpNURRRk&t=1848s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-05-lee-camp-unredacted-toni/ 4. LIVE: Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou on Venezuela, 9/11 (2026-01-05), at 31:20. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0GpNURRRk&t=1880s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-05-lee-camp-unredacted-toni/ 5. Remarks by John Kiriakou, former CIA officer (2026-06-26), at 08:06. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnui-G5T4&t=486s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-26-lawyers-committee-for-9-1-remarks-by-john-kiriakou-former-cia-officer/ 6. Remarks by John Kiriakou, former CIA officer (2026-06-26), at 08:37. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnui-G5T4&t=517s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-26-lawyers-committee-for-9-1-remarks-by-john-kiriakou-former-cia-officer/ 7. In Confidence: A Private Conversation with John Kiriakou (2026-01-13), at 1:03:12. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuKrdCf-ds&t=3792s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-13-covertaction-magazine/ 8. Remarks by John Kiriakou, former CIA officer (2026-06-26), at 29:24. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibhnui-G5T4&t=1764s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-26-lawyers-committee-for-9-1-remarks-by-john-kiriakou-former-cia-officer/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/9-11-commission/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt