Former congressman Curt Weldon is pushing to reopen questions about what U.S. intelligence agencies hid before and after 9/11, a direct attack on the credibility of those agencies.

• The charge: intelligence officials withheld what they knew and misled Congress about 9/11.
• Career bureaucrats, not elected officials, are blamed for running the country beyond their authority.
• Some inside the intelligence world are accused of profiting from the secrecy and expecting no consequences.
• The push is framed as bipartisan, with a senior Democrat privately backing the call to reopen the case.

Outlook: Expect more pressure in Washington to declassify 9/11-era intelligence files, with the agencies resisting.