While the political climate and circumstances leading up to the September 11 attacks are well documented, some of that information still hasn’t been released to the public.

In 2003, two bipartisan authors from the 9/11 Commission summarized their investigation of the terrorist attack in an infamous report. You can read most of it for free online here. As illuminating as the report is on its own, there remains a gaping 28-page hole in its contents.

The forbidden 9/11 Commission pages can be viewed, but only by members of Congress behind a locked door. Representatives and senators cannot take notes or bring an assistant with them. The few people who have seen them hint that they are about about Saudi Arabia and its alleged support of the hijackers who carried the devastating 2001 attacks.

Fifteen years later, it’s time for those pages to see the light of day.

President Obama, who is set to visit Saudi Arabia in a week, has previously promised to unseal the documents. Politicians on both sides of the political spectrum have also urged him to do so. The people who wrote the report even want it fully unsealed! But will the president follow through?

If Obama wants to avoid offending Saudi Arabia, probably not. U.S. Senator Bob Graham affirmed in a 60 Minutes interview that the documents indicate the 9/11 hijackers received helped from Saudi Arabian citizens. He also hinted that the government was involved as well.

From the Daily Beast:

Former Florida senator Bob Graham chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee and co-chaired the joint congressional committee that looked into the attacks. He told 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, “I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education, could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States.”

An exchange between Kroft and Graham goes to the heart of the dispute. “You believe that support came from Saudi Arabia?” Kroft asks. “Substantially,” Graham replies. “And when we say, ‘The Saudis,’ you mean the government…rich people in the country? Charities?”

“All of the above,” Graham replies.

Protecting the reputation of Saudis who enabled terrorism isn’t worth keeping the world–and the families directly harmed by 9/11–in the dark. Release ’em, Obama!