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The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission
Knopf
August 2006
On Sale: August 15, 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0307263770
EAN: 9780307263773
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
In the words of the commission's co-chairmen, this is the
compelling inside story of how the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States--more commonly known
as the 9/11 Commission--managed to succeed against all odds
in producing a report that made clear what went wrong and why. The mandate of the 9/11 Commission was daunting and
all-encompassing. In its investigation of the events leading
up to and including September 11, 2001, the commission had
to examine U.S. diplomacy, military policy, intelligence
agencies, law enforcement, border and aviation security, and
congressional oversight, as well as the immediate response
to the terrorist attacks, while also investigating the
lethal enemy al Qaeda. The creation of the 9/11 Commission was blocked for months
by the Bush administration, and after its inception in
December 2002 the commission spent months mired in a series
of controversies--the resignation of its first chairman,
Henry Kissinger, and vice-chairman, George Mitchell; an
inadequate budget; an extraordinarily polarized atmosphere
leading up to the 2004 presidential election; the
conflicting demands of various interest groups; the distrust
of the victims-- families; difficulties in obtaining access
to highly classified documents and to al Qaeda detainees;
and a media eager to record stumbles and gaffes. The
obstacles were great, and the expectations for a blue-ribbon
panel are never high—yet somehow the 9/11 Commission
overcame everything that might have thwarted it and
succeeded beyond anyone’s greatest expectation, holding a
series of hearings that riveted the nation, producing a
unanimous and widely heralded report that became a national
best seller, and issuing recommendations that led to the
most significant reform of America’s national security
agencies in decades. The 9/11 Commission report slaked the national thirst for
accountability. Here for the first time is the story of how
the commission came together to produce its landmark document.
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