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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4958 
To require a declassification review of certain investigation documents con-
cerning foreign support for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 6, 2021 
Mr. JEFFRIES (for himself and Mr. PASCRELL) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 
and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To require a declassification review of certain investigation 
documents concerning foreign support for the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘September 11 Trans-
parency Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW OF CERTAIN INVES-
TIGATION DOCUMENTS CONCERNING FOR-
EIGN SUPPORT FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS OF 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. 
(a) DECLASSIFICATION REVIEWS, PUBLICATION, AND 
REPORT.—The Director of National Intelligence, the At-
torney General, and the Director of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency shall— 
(1) in accordance with subsection (b), complete 
declassification reviews— 
(A) not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, of— 
(i) the subfile investigation described 
in chapter V of the 2015 Final Report of 
the Congressionally-directed 9/11 Review 
Commission; 
(ii) any subfile or separate investiga-
tion of any subject of the subfile investiga-
tion described in clause (i); 
(iii) any counterintelligence investiga-
tion involving any subject of the subfile in-
vestigation described in clause (i); and 
(iv) any PENTTBOM records refer-
ring or relating to any subject of the 
subfile investigation described in clause (i); 
and 
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(B) not later than 20 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, of the April 2016 
Review Report concerning the subfile investiga-
tion described in subparagraph (A)(i); 
(2) not later than 20 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, make available to the public 
any information declassified as a result of a declas-
sification review completed under paragraph (1)(B); 
and 
(3) not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act— 
(A) make available to the public any infor-
mation declassified as a result of the declas-
sification reviews completed under paragraph 
(1)(A); and 
(B) submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees (as defined in section 3 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) 
a report on the results of the declassification re-
views completed under paragraph (1), including 
a justification for each decision not to declassify 
a document, record, or information pursuant to 
such reviews. 
(b) REVIEW PROCEDURES.— 
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(1) OVERSIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY.—The de-
classification reviews required by subsection (a)(1) 
shall be overseen by the Director of National Intel-
ligence, who shall ensure that documents and infor-
mation are declassified to the fullest extent possible 
under applicable provisions of law, except that— 
(A) the Attorney General shall have pri-
mary responsibility for conducting the declas-
sification reviews required by subsection (a)(1) 
with respect to documents and information that 
originated with the Department of Justice; 
(B) the Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency shall have primary responsibility for 
conducting the declassification reviews required 
by such subsection with respect to documents 
and information that originated with the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency; and 
(C) the Director of National Intelligence 
shall have primary responsibility for conducting 
the declassification reviews required by such 
subsection with respect to all other documents 
and information not described in subparagraph 
(A) or (B). 
(2) ADDITIONAL
REQUIREMENTS.—Upon the 
completion of the declassification reviews under sub-
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