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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page ix Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page x Thomas H. Kean chair Richard Ben-Veniste Fred F . Fielding Jamie S. Gorelic... ...17/04 5:25 PM Page ix Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page x Thomas H. Kean chair Richard Ben-Veniste Fred F . Fielding Jamie S. Gorelick Slade Go... ...age our fellow citizens to study, reflect—and act. xviii PREFACE Thomas H. Kean chair Lee H. Hamilton vice chair Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:26 PM Page ... ...lation of intellectual capital.A university cul- ture with its versions of books and articles was giving way to the culture of the newsroom. During th... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...eratives basic English words and phrases. He showed them how to read phone books,interpret airline timetables,use the Inter- net, use code words in co... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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