THE blacking out of 28 pages on Saudi complicity in the 9/11 attacks isn’t the only hole in Congress’ report on the terrorist atrocity: The rest of the report skirts issues and evidence that point directly to the desert oil kingdom. Consider the case of 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The document notes that U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies failed to adequately deal with knowledge they had of these two Saudis. But it actually continues the intelligence failure, by overlooking their importance in the plot.

The two men first landed in San Diego after a terrorist summit in Malaysia. Among the U.S. failures that followed: