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	9/11 Commission Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The commission also concluded 15 of the 19 hijackers that carried out the attacks were from Saudi Arabia, but found no evidence the government of Saudi Arabia conspired in the attacks, nor that it funded the attackers [2].
		According to the commission, all 19 hijackers were members of the Al-Qaida terrorist organization, based in Afghanistan, and led by Osama bin Laden.
		A related 9/11 report from Congress in text format
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9/11_Commission_Report (833 words)

	Jack Kelly: Clown commission
		The nature of the commission is evidence that those who appointed it did not have identifying problems and offering solutions for them uppermost in their minds.
		John Lehman, a Republican, was the latest member of the commission to disgrace himself, with his intemperate (and factually challenged) assault on former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former Fire Department Chief Thomas Van Essen.
		This is as wildly inappropriate as if, during a trial, the judge and members of the jury were giving a running commentary on their current thoughts on the guilt or innocence of the defendant to the press.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04144/320185.stm (744 words)

	9/11 Whitewash Commission: Air Defenses Faltered on 9/11
		Commission investigators, based on private interviews with both Bush and Cheney and other witnesses, reported that a telephone conversation occurred between the two leaders shortly before 10:10 a.m.
		The stark conclusions come as part of the last interim report to be issued by the staff of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which is racing to complete a final book-length report by the end of next month.
		Air defense agencies "were unprepared for the type of attacks launched against the United States on September 11, 2001," the report concludes.
	www.prisonplanet.tv /articles/june2004/061704airdefenses.htm (720 words)

	TomPaine.com - 9/11 Commission Chimera
		Ironically, Congress never adopted the recommendations of the very successful Hart-Rudman “United States Commission on National Security/21st Century.” Had they been given appropriate attention, there might have been no 9/11.
		Commission Vice Chair Lee Hamilton shared with the senators his frustration at the answer he got when he kept asking intelligence community officials who is in charge. The president, they said.
		Zelikow told an interviewer that the commission’s recommendations are “not a panacea. We may not have the right answers.” He got that right.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/911_commission_chimera.php (488 words)

	Transcript: Wednesday's 9/11 Commission Hearings (washingtonpost.com)
		This commission has a mandate to develop a full and complete accounting of the events of 9/11 and the commission should press for all of the information that we need to fulfill that mandate.
		And I do think that we on the commission have to be very, very careful, and we have to realize what is at stake and we have to respect the judgment of those who really do carry awesome responsibilities.
		But if the policy-makers believed their intent was clear, every CIA official interviewed on this topic by the commission, from DCI Tenet to the official who actually briefed the agents in the field, told us they had heard a different message.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A20349-2004Mar24.html (16650 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas Q&A: US 9/11 commission
		The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the US was set up by Congress in late 2002 with a mandate to provide a "full and complete account" of the 11 September 2001 attacks and recommendations on how to prevent such attacks in the future.
		The bi-partisan commission established by the US Congress to investigate the attacks of 11 September 2001 is due to issue its final report.
		The commission was originally set to report by 27 May, but that deadline was pushed back by two months at the request of the commission to allow it to finish its work.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3565585.stm (935 words)

	EPIC 9/11 Commission Page
		The National Commission on Terrorists Attacks has released its final report (pdf 7 MB) on the circumstances surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks and recommendations for guarding against attacks in the future.
		9/11 Commission Recommendation: At this time of increased and consolidated government authority, there should be a board within the executive branch to oversee adherence to the guidelines we recommend and the commitment the government makes to defend our civil liberties.
		EPIC Comment: The 9/11 Commission Report correctly places responsibility on the executive to justify the continued use of the PATRIOT Act authorities.
	www.epic.org /privacy/terrorism/911comm.html (1427 words)

	What’s Bush Hiding From 9/11 Commission?
		But the commission’s final report may well indicate what the President was told in his daily briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, when he was sunning himself in Crawford, Tex.—as well as the many warnings he and his associates were given by the previous administration.
		The commission still has hundreds of interviews to conduct, and millions of pages to examine, before its members begin to draft their conclusions.
		But the President’s political advisers, concerned about the political impact of the commission’s report, are unsympathetic to its requests for additional time—and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who would have to approve an extension, is perfectly obedient to his masters in the White House.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0121-11.htm (921 words)

	9/11 Commission Transcript: U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
		9/11 Commission Transcript: U. Attorney General John Ashcroft
		And we are mindful that part of the problem with the Warren commission's work on the Kennedy assassination was the failure to address certain theories that were extant and questions and much of the work was done behind closed doors.
		Let me ask you, as my time is expiring, one question, which has been frequently put to members of this commission; probably all of us have heard this one way or another.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04105/300543.stm (8063 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Trouble ahead for Bush from 9/11 panel
		Although the bipartisan commission scrupulously avoided apportioning blame to either the Clinton or Bush administrations, the decision ensures that 9/11 and Iraq will remain at the forefront of the election campaign.
		Members of the commission investigating the September 11 terror attacks have injected a potentially unsettling element into President George Bush's re-election campaign by deciding not to disband.
		The commission's 10 members said they planned to team up in pairs - one Democrat and one Republican - to campaign throughout the US for the adoption of their 41 recommendations to make the country safer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /september11/story/0,11209,1268098,00.html (593 words)

	CBC News Indepth: September 11
		Congress established The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States in 2002 to investigate the events and circumstances surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York city and Washington D.C. The commission has 10 members - five Democrats and five Republicans - and has spent $15 million US investigating the matter.
		The commission urges Americans to remember how they came together after the attacks and says "unity of purpose and unity of effort" are the only ways to combat terrorism.
		The commission says the threat of an attack is still high, despite efforts by the Bush administration to quell terrorism.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/sep11/911_commission.html (1014 words)

	TIME.com: 9-11 Commission Funding Woes -- Page 1
		Stephen Push, a leader of the 9/11 victims' families, who are closely monitoring the commission, said the White House decision was another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the panel's role.
		Commission member Tim Roemer, a former Democratic congressman, said the probe is off to a disturbingly slow start and that failure to quickly provide the funding increase wouldn't help.
		The slow start is particularly upsetting to some because the panel was given 18 months to complete its probe, and the clock has been ticking since November 27 but the commission has made scant progress in the four months since.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html (1156 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement - Apr 8, 2004
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- National security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified Thursday under oath and in public before the independent National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001.
		RICE: Commissioner, it would not have prevented September 11 if it had been approved the day after we came to office.
		At the outset of the administration, a commission that was chartered by Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, two very different people covering pretty much the political spectrum, put together a terrific panel to study the issue of terrorism and report to the new administration as it began.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript (17231 words)

	USATODAY.com - Evidence suggests al-Qaeda ties more to Iran than Iraq
		The report cautions that the commission "found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah" was aware of planning for the 9/11 attack.
		President Bush said last month that the administration had "never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by Saddam and al-Qaeda." He argued that there was no gap between the commission's findings and the justifications for the war given by the White House.
		The commission found evidence of numerous contacts between Osama bin Laden's terrorist group and the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, including suspicions by the Clinton administration that Iraq might have offered bin Laden asylum in the late 1990s.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-07-22-iran-alqaeda_x.htm (678 words)

	What the 9/11 commission report ignores: the CIA-Al Qaeda connection
		The 9/11 commission report itself documents the fact that leading personnel in the Bush administration were pushing, within hours of the attacks on New York and Washington, for a war to remove the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		Bush fiercely opposed the creation of a commission to investigate 9/11—the bloodiest single attack on American citizens on US soil.
		The report of the national commission investigating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, released July 22, is a lengthy document that deserves careful study.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jul2004/comm-j24.shtml (1769 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
		In November of 2002, with the unstinted urging of the 911 families, the United States Congress and the President of the United States, established by Law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission.
		The Commission's report is presented as a unanimous document; Democrats might not want to hear that the relatively-liberal Lee Hamilton is in favour of the general tenets of the Patriot Act, whereas Republicans might not like the governmental control aspects that relatively-conservative Thomas Kean supports.
		The Commission are to be praised that this was more of an analysis than a blame-game exercise; the general tone overall is pro-active rather than reactive, problem-solving rather than attempting to fix past accountability that, more likely than not, can be evenly shared.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393326713 (1819 words)

	CBS News Venting At Rudy & 9/11 Panel May 20, 2004 14:28:07
		In the most comprehensive probe of the issues to date, reports by the commission's staff released this week detailed a list of failings including poor communication, gulfs in cooperation between police and firefighters and grave deficiencies in the city's 911 emergency telephone network.
		The commission's hearings resume in Washington on June 8-9 and its final report is due July 26.
		Commission chairman Thomas Kean, for one, told Giuliani: "New York City on that day, in a sense, was blessed because it had you as a leader."
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/21/terror/main612959.shtml (1043 words)

	'Whitewash': 9/11 Commission Rocked by Bizarre Revelations That Commission Officials Gave Evidence to Own Inquiry
		The news is a particularly sharp blow to the commission's credibility because Gorelick and Zelikow are the two officials to whom the White House has granted the greatest access to the most secret and sensitive national security documents of all, the presidential daily briefings.
		Zelikow, who the commission says has withdrawn himself from those parts of its investigation directly connected with the transition -- a process known as recusal -- was also appointed to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in October 2001.
		Philip Zelikow, the commission's executive director, worked on the Bush-Cheney transition team as the new administration took power, advising his longtime associate and former boss, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, on the structure of the incoming National Security Council.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0115-11.htm (701 words)

	The 9/11 Commission Report
		Since 9/ 11, the United States and its allies have killed or captured a majority of al Qaeda's leadership; toppled the Taliban, which gave al Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan; and severely damaged the organization.
		Existing protocols on 9/ 11 were unsuited in every respect for an attack in which hijacked planes were used as weapons.
		September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States.
	www.kottke.org /plus/misc/911commission.html (8893 words)

	National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up in late 2002 "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the" September 11, 2001 attacks including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks.
		9/11 Commission tells truth, but not whole truth
		Some have compared its important, and potentially controversial, role to that of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9/11_Commission (1847 words)

	9/11 Commission
		He has accepted the commission's key conclusion: Namely, that the 9/11 intelligence failure might have been avoided, and the attacks themselves averted, if only a "czar" had been in charge of the CIA and the other 14 agencies that comprise our intelligence service.
		The Times said in Thursday editions that a previously undisclosed report by the 9/11 commission that investigated the suicide airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon detailed warnings given to FAA leaders from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
		President Bush to act on 9/11 Commission Recommendations
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/middle_east_politics/105574 (1627 words)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: The 9/11 Commission
		The national 9/11 commission has been hijacked by political shills -- men and women eager to subordinate truth to partisan advantage; who hold a transitory victory on Election Day more dear than American victory in the war on terror.
		All the reasons that Jamie Gorelick should resign from the 9/11 Commission are present in this post.
		Watching Ben Veniste in action left me with very little confidence in the 9/11 Commission.
	www.professorbainbridge.com /2004/04/the_911_commiss.html (512 words)

	Salon.com News Playing politics with the 9/11 commission
		For months, the Bush administration and the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks have been locked in low-intensity warfare.
		The administration's apparent policy of delay and roadblock has outraged some members of Congress and a group representing families of 9/11 victims.
		The White House opposed creation of the commission, and after it reluctantly yielded, it sought to bar the commission from seeing reams of documents pertaining to the attacks.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2004/01/24/911_commission (337 words)

	VDARE.com: 02/03/04 - What The 9/11 Commission Needs To Know About The EOIR
		The commission also heard testimony from immigration non-enforcement luminaries James Ziglar and Doris Meissner—both disgraced Commissioners of the now abolished Immigration and Naturalization Service.
		Shortly after September 11, 2001, I started a web site warning that America’s deportation system for illegal aliens and criminal alien residents is broken beyond repair.
		For real immigration reform, all roads lead to the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act and to the federal litigation bureaucracy impeding immigration law enforcement.
	www.vdare.com /mann/terrorism2.htm (787 words)

	9/11 Commission Primer - Center for American Progress
		But Republican 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean "dismissed the request and said Gorelick was one of the hardest-working and nonpartisan members of the commission.
		And despite entreaties from the families of victims of 9/11 attacks and a bipartisan group of senators and congressmen, the president vocally resisted forming an investigatory commission.
		While Attorney General John Ashcroft launched an unjustified attack on Commission member Jamie Gorelick for her previous work in the Justice Department, the Heritage Foundation was providing a forum for those who sought to discredit the Commission. In an interesting twist, just this month Ashcroft recanted on his criticism of Gorelick.
	www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=124722 (2032 words)

	Online NewsHour: Investigating Pre-9/11 Readiness
		The 9/11 commission heard testimony Thursday on the communication problems immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks that left the United States temporarily without a functioning government and led Vice President Dick Cheney to believe briefly that the U.S. military had shot down two hijacked aircraft.
		9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton appealed to Congress Friday to revamp the U.S. intelligence system as recommended in the commission's final report.
		After nearly two years of work, thousands of hours of testimony and weeks of public hearings, the commission charged with examining how and why the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks occurred and what can be done to prevent another assault issued its final report in July 2004.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/terrorism/911commission (495 words)

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	washingtonpost.com - The 9/11 Commission Report
		The final report of the 9/11 Commission is available in book form.
		The independent, bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established by Congress in 2002 to investigate the events of and circumstances surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
		The panel heard from members of the Clinton and Bush administrations, New York City emergency personnel and victims' families.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/nation/911report/911reportbychapter.html (148 words)

	Report: 9/11 Commission Could Have Been Prevented The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Capitol Hill, ground zero for the investigation, is still reeling in the wake of the 9/11 commission.
		Defense lawyer Mark Agara, who has provided legal counsel for many of the commission's victims, blamed party insiders' short-sightedness on what he termed a "pre-9/11-commission mindset."
		Although there were only 10 commission members, they worked with shocking efficiency, and served to carry out the decisions made with the help of a much larger network of government employees.
	www.theonion.com /news/index.php?issue=4024 (705 words)

	9/11 Commission - Center for American Progress
		After opposing the creation of the 9/11 Commission, blocking access to documents, and refusing to testify in front of it for months, President Bush sits down tomorrow to answer their questions.
		The Bush administration fought the establishment of the 9/11 Commission and its access to government documents and witnesses.
		With National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice set to testify before the independent 9/11 Commission Thursday, American Progress asks the tough questions.
	www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=40319 (1119 words)

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