His rationale? If I did, you could ask me questions about them. Huh, really?
Via CBS:
Bernie Sanders says he has not yet read the 28 pages that are redacted from a congressional report on 9/11 that a number of lawmakers are demanding be declassified — even though he has access to the pages.
Asked in an interview on “CBS This Morning” if he should read them if he’s running to be commander-in-chief, Sanders said, “The difficulty is, you see then, if you read them, then you’re gonna ask me a question, you’re gonna say, ‘You read them, what’s in them?’ And now I can tell you honestly I have not.”
Even though he hasn’t read the documents, he acknowledged that there is speculation that the 28 pages “may indicate that parts of the Saudi family may have funded some of the terrorists.”
Sanders said he supports legislation pending in the Senate that would allow the U.S. to sue any government that may have been involved in terrorism that kills Americans. The Obama administration, meanwhile, opposes the bill, and Saudi Arabia has threatened to retaliate financially if the bill passes.