Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, said it welcomed the document's release, which it had advocated for years.
The Saudi ambassador to the US:
"Since 2002, the 9/11 Commission and several government agencies, including the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., have investigated the contents of the '28 Pages' and have confirmed that neither the Saudi government, nor senior Saudi officials, nor any person acting on behalf of the Saudi government provided any support or encouragement for these attacks,"
"We hope the release of these pages will clear up, once and for all, any lingering questions or suspicions about Saudi Arabia's actions, intentions, or long-term friendship with the United States," he added.
Just because it was released on a Friday doesn't mean it was a bad news dump. The Saudi government has encouraged the release of the document for years because the classification was doing more damage than the document.
I will definitely be interested to see how independent third parties interpret the document.