From the NYTimes yesterday on Saudi cooperation, emphasis added: “The Saudi government did not allow American law enforcement officials to interview the families of the 9/11 hijackers in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the attacks, and were so forceful in their refusals that American officials said this week that they simply gave up trying.

One senior law enforcement official said efforts to seek interviews with the 9/11 hijackers’ families had more recently “fallen through the cracks” in Washington. But he said that in the new openness between Saudi Arabia and the United States, augured by the August meetings, American officials MIGHT broach the issue again.”