When U.S. troops raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, they captured a large trove of files, but the administration has tightly restricted access to them. Those who have seen the documents report that they contain important information about Iranian support for al-Qaeda, as Stephen Hayes and William Kristol write:
We have been told by six current or former intelligence officials that the collection of documents captured in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound includes explosive information on Iran’s relationship with al-Qaeda over the past two decades, including details of Iran’s support for al-Qaeda’s attacks on Americans. . . . Contacted about the status of al-Qaeda’s Iran network earlier this spring, two intelligence officials confirmed that it was still functioning and still critical to al-Qaeda operations. . . .
The Obama administration does not want the bin Laden documents released. To date, the administration has made public fewer than 150 documents out of more than a million, despite a statutory requirement to expedite the release of the collection. Remarkably, members of Congress, including those on the intelligence committees, do not have access to the documents. Republicans in Congress share the blame for this. . . .
Not to demand these documents—not to insist on having access to them despite all the administration’s protestations and obfuscations, not to allow the American people to understand the whole truth about the Iranian regime with which the administration has negotiated this agreement—would be an abdication of responsibility on the part of Congress that history would judge harshly.
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