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Executive Order 14040 — Declassification Reviews of Certain Documents Concerning the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Executive Office of the President (Joseph R. Biden, Jr.) · 2021

AI-verified citationSRC-EO-14040-2021
identifier / locator
Signed September 3, 2021; DCPD-202100713
url
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202100713/pdf/DCPD-202100713.pdf
verification note
GPO PDF fetched live 2026-08-26; the order's title, date, and its reference to records withheld in discovery in the consolidated litigation confirmed verbatim.
reliability notes
  • The order directing the declassification reviews; it establishes what was to be reviewed and by when, not what the released records contain.

Evidence drawn from this source

Context· moderateSEP-E033

The declassification order and the release collection it produced

what the source states
"Executive Order 14040—Declassification Reviews of Certain Documents Concerning the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 / September 3, 2021," directing review of records "identified but withheld in full during discovery in In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, MDL No. 03–1570 (S.D.N.Y.)."
what we infer
Establishes the mechanism by which the Saudi-file record has been moving since 2021, and independently confirms the litigation's docket from a government source. What the released records establish is a separate question this case does not yet grade, because the releases are heavily redacted and the characterizations in circulation are the parties' own.
limitations
  • An order about process; it establishes nothing about content.
Executive Office of the President (Joseph R. Biden, Jr.) (2021)AI-verified citationSEP-C022