Ten years after the al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, most of the 9/11 Commission’s findings have not been released to the public, despite the fact that the National Archives were scheduled to release the full material in 2009.
Only a third of the unreleased material has been reviewed to possibly be made public, and much of that has been withheld or heavily redacted. Several former commission staff members said there is no comprehensive effort to make the remaining material public, and they fear much of it will remain sealed indefinitely.
The findings of the Commission are important public information, the release of which the entire Commission is on the record as endorsing. Philip Zelikow, the commission’s staff director, said it “could be declassified in full without any harm to national security” and that includes his 7,000-word summary he helped prepare of daily presidential intelligence briefings from 1998 through the attack.
Keeping them secret reveals the both the tendency of the government to over-classify and the unhealthy trepidation to lay blame on any elected official past or present.
Commission Chairman Thomas Kean said “Most of what I read that was classified shouldn’t have been.” He said. “Easily 60 percent of the classified documents have no reason to be classified – none.”
Included in the unreleased material are a 30-page summary of an April 29, 2004 interview by all 10 commissioners with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, source material on actions by President Bush on the day of the attacks and the Clinton administration’s earlier approach to the al Qaeda threat.
There is likely much more unreleased material that would be imperative for scholars, journalists, and foreign policy experts to have, but the classification persists with no full explanation as to why.
I wonder: does the classified and unreleased portion have anything to do with the Israeli connection?
So, either the corporate rich ruling class did the 9/11 disaster, or their brutal imperial caused it to happen.
And so, what difference does it make? For money controlled elections will always create a money controlled government that gives deadly force to those with the most money.
Root cause being that most Americans love money, and it controls every aspect of their mind, character and personality. Especially the stuck-up educated middle-class.
John_Muhammad asks, “the Israeli connection?”
Empire USA is controlled by the richest of the rich, so what difference does it make it their Jews, atheists or fake morality Christians?
For if the rich use religion to create hatred and division — why even bring up the subject?
Israeli Mossad agents were in Jersey City at the appointed time of the attack to film it and to cheer – wonder how they knew to be they at that time?
WHO is doing the classifying?
there is a lot to hide – the truth.
They won't realise it because it will show things they lied about from the begining like the FACT it was in inside job involving Israehell.
I always wondered on the days before the attack, short interest on the airlines (UA) and businesses in the towers went to extreme levels showing someone knew about the attacks in advance and attempted to profit from them.
What ever happened to the investigation into that?
Maybe that is in this report as well.
The little people must not read what they paid for.
(there will soon be hell to pay)
Government thrives on fear by the majority of the people under its jurisdiction, but threats of and actual initiation of physical force by domestic enforcers are the *major* tool of societal control; military enforcers initiate physical harm on those outside that government's (self-declared) jurisdiction as contrasted with those individuals who defend against actual attackers. Without these enforcers – the individuals willing to initiate physical force – all the words making up the volumes of regulations/directives/edicts/mandates/laws/etc are nothing but sound and scribbles.
Secrets enable the rulers to keep large numbers of the masses in ignorance of what takes place between and among rulers, their friends and their adjutants, so the masses are prone to believe any propaganda and do not seriously question whether being ruled is a necessity for social order. Maintaining a pawn mentality among the majority is a must for continuation of the government, even if political parties and individuals change.
With the Internet, secrets are harder for governments to keep, and of even more longterm importance, information is accessible on a non-government society of self-responsible individuals voluntarily interacting for the maximization of the lifetime happiness of each.
Mr. Raimondo, that should not bother anybody because it was a white wash anyway. I recently found two individuals who could tell me info about the preset charges at the WTCs and a number of other buildings. In 1992, when FEMA crawled out of the CIA 'burn clinic' into being, a little known program called Project Godzilla came into being. This project allegedly included setting explosives in various buildings to "guarantee vertical drop". This coincides with half a dozen instances of Israelis being caught driving around in movingvans whiuch chemical tests had proved were carrying around explosives, as well as some of the Israelis. Definitely worth your while.