Scott Wartman

swartman@nky.com

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. on the Glenn Beck Program on Wednesday said there will be "anger, frustration and embarrassment" if 28 classified pages of an intelligence report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks are released to the public.

Massie, however, thinks the American public should be allowed to read the redacted 28 pages of the "Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001." The report is an official congressional inquiry completed in December 2001.

Massie has co-sponsored a bill authored by Reps. Walter Jones, R-N.C., and Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., that would declassify the redacted pages.

Massie has read the documents but can't reveal what's in them, he said in a press conference earlier this month. He said he was shepherded in a soundproof room to read the material and couldn't take notes.

"It is sort of shocking when you read it," Massie said in the press conference. "As I read it, we all had our own experience. I had to stop every couple of pages and absorb and try to rearrange my understanding of history for the past 13 years and the years leading up to that. It challenges you to rethink everything."

Massie told Glenn Beck that the information won't damage the United States but will cause some embarrassment.

"This will not tear our country apart," Massie responded. "It will be embarrassing. It will not endanger us to release this information. But the American public needs to have it.

Staff writer Scott Wartman is seeking more information from Massie.