Representative Anna Paulina Luna, the Florida Republican who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, announced Friday that she had received word additional files related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks would be declassified within hours, timing the release to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

Luna shared the news on social media Friday morning, writing that she had just received word that 9/11 files would be declassified that day within the next few hours, a statement that quickly spread across conservative media outlets eager for any new information on one of the most consequential and still partially shrouded events in modern American history.

The announcement came on the heels of an emotional moment at the Ground Zero memorial ceremony in New York, where Terry Strada, a widow of a 9/11 victim, publicly called on President Trump to release evidence related to the long alleged role of Saudi Arabian officials in supporting the hijackers before the attacks took place. Strada also called directly on Vice President JD Vance, who was present at the ceremony representing the administration, to carry her message back to the White House.

Luna’s task force has become one of the most closely watched oversight bodies in Congress since House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer tapped her to lead the effort in February 2025. The panel’s mandate is sweeping, covering not only 9/11 related material but also long classified records connected to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as files related to unidentified aerial phenomena, the origins of COVID-19, and the so called Epstein client list.

The task force’s work follows an executive order signed by President Trump early in his second term directing the intelligence community to present a plan for the full release of records related to the Kennedy assassination, an effort that has since expanded into one of the most significant declassification pushes in decades.

Luna has previously overseen the release of tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the JFK and RFK assassinations, material she has said reveals discrepancies with the official narratives that have stood for over sixty years. Her push for 9/11 transparency follows that same pattern of pressuring federal agencies to release material that has remained hidden from public view for a quarter century.

The Public Interest Declassification Board, an independent federal advisory body, sent a formal letter to President Trump earlier this summer urging his administration to seize the opportunity presented by the 25th anniversary to declassify two specific sets of long sought after 9/11 records. The board identified the 9/11 Commission’s summary and analysis of pre-attack intelligence reporting on al Qaeda, along with memoranda documenting the commission’s interviews with several former top officials, including Condoleezza Rice, Samuel Berger, Richard Clarke, Michael Scheuer, and George Tenet, as the highest priority materials for release.

Those records have long been sought by 9/11 family members and researchers who believe they may shed additional light on what the government knew about the threat of an al Qaeda attack in the months and years leading up to September 2001, and why that intelligence apparently failed to prevent the worst terrorist attack in American history.

Multiple reports circulating Friday indicated that the Central Intelligence Agency was preparing, or had already begun, releasing a substantial batch of previously classified President’s Daily Briefs spanning the years leading up to the attacks, material that intelligence officials have described as among the most sensitive documents produced by the federal government given that they represent the daily intelligence briefings delivered directly to the sitting president.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has overseen a series of major declassification efforts throughout the Trump administration’s second term, including the release of tens of thousands of pages related to the JFK and RFK assassinations earlier this year. Ratcliffe has repeatedly framed these efforts as fulfilling the president’s commitment to maximum transparency and restoring public trust in institutions that have long been criticized for excessive secrecy.

For conservatives who have spent years demanding greater transparency from the intelligence community, Friday’s expected release represents a significant milestone, particularly given how long 9/11 families have waited for answers about what the government knew before the attacks and what role, if any, foreign governments played in supporting the hijackers.

The renewed push for transparency also comes amid separate revelations this week regarding New York City’s handling of air quality concerns in Lower Manhattan following the attacks. More than 170,000 pages of newly public documents suggest that city officials reassured residents the air near Ground Zero was safe in the weeks after the attacks, despite internal reports and firsthand accounts from workers on the ground suggesting otherwise, including concerns about undisclosed asbestos contamination.

Those documents have raised uncomfortable questions for New York City officials past and present, with current Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledging when asked about the matter that multiple mayoral administrations over the years had declined to release material that many believe New Yorkers were owed, particularly given the health consequences suffered by first responders and residents exposed to the toxic dust and debris in the attacks’ aftermath.

Luna’s task force has repeatedly emphasized that overclassification of government records serves no legitimate purpose a quarter century after the fact, and that the American people deserve the opportunity to review the historical record for themselves rather than relying solely on official government narratives that have shifted or been contradicted over the years.

The timing of Friday’s announcement, arriving on the exact 25th anniversary of the attacks, was seen by many as a deliberate and symbolically significant choice by the administration, allowing survivors, family members, and the broader public to receive new information on the very day set aside each year to honor those who were lost.