A former US diplomat has claimed that the CIA and other American officials are covering up the role Israel and Saudi Arabia played in orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. J. Michael Springmann, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, says that CIA director John Brennan’s remarks that Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks is an outright lie. Presstv.com reports: Springmann told Press TV that the spymaster was “absolutely mistaken,” as many key US politicians along with American intelligence agencies have acknowledged Saudi Arabia’s role in the attacks. The Saudis were indeed involved “either through money or through assistance or through participation by high-level government or well-connected rich individuals,” he added. Controversy surrounding Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks surged in May, when the US Senate passed a bill that allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Riyadh regime for damages caused by the tragic event. The New York Post claimed in a report last month that Saudi Arabia’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of the American government. The extent of the cover-up goes beyond hiding 28 pages of a congressional report on 9/11 which was released in 2002, [...]